Research interests

My research interests lie mainly within the general area of French and international politics, political economy and and political thought since 1945. More specifically, they include:

• Capital, labour and the political economy of our time.
• Contemporary French political thought on the left, especially Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière.
• The theory and practice of democracy in France.
• The French Regulation School.
• Intellectuals and politics.
• Political violence.
• See an interview with Nick on Marx and Political violence here: http://stateofnatureblog.com/nick-hewlett-marx-violence/

Selected publications

* Blood and Progress. Violence in Pursuit of Emancipation, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, v + 197pp.

• The Sarkozy Phenomenon, Exeter, Imprint Academic, 2011, v + 139pp.
• Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Rethinking Emancipation, London, Continuum, 2007, ix +210pp.
• Democracy in Modern France, London, Continuum, 2003, x + 221 pp.
• Modern French Politics. Conflict and Consensus since 1945, Cambridge, Polity, 1998, xii + 251 pp.
• Contemporary France. Politics, Economics and Society since 1945, with Jill Forbes and François Nectoux, Longman, 2000, xviii + 388 pp. (Second edition.)
• Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life (ed., with Christopher Flood), Macmillan, 2000, ix + 249 pp.

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Qualifications

BA (Sussex), MA (Essex), PhD (Oxford Brookes), DLitt (Warwick)