Ph.D., Columbia University, 2008.
Reidar Maliks specializes in political philosophy and the history of political thought. Much of his work has been on, or inspired by, Immanuel Kant.
Prior to coming to the University of Oslo in 2011, Reidar Maliks was a Preceptor at Columbia (2005-6 and 2007-8), a Lecturer at Harvard (2008-9), and a Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford (2009-11). At Oxford, he organized a lecture series called Transformations of the State; podcasts are available here.
Reidar teaches political philosophy, ethics, and the history of philosophy. He has twice been awarded the Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching at Harvard University.
He is the principal investigator of the project KanDem -- Kantian Foundations of Democracy, sponsored by a FRIPRO grant of The Research Council of Norway, during 2021-2025. He was the head of the philosophy section at IFIKK 2022-2024, and was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2025.
Among Reidar's current projects is editing the book Kant and Democracy together with Michael Kryluk (under contract with CUP), and writing a book called Kant's Unruly Followers.
Reidar is married to Véronique Pouillard, who does interesting work in economic history.
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Books
Kant's Early Followers in Political Philosophy, edited by Reidar Maliks and Elisabeth Theresia Widmer, Routledge, 2025
Kant and the French Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2022
Kant's Politics in Context, Oxford University Press, 2014. Paperback, 2017
Japanese edition translated by Yasushi Kato et.al., Chisen Shokan, Tokyo, 2024
Reviews
Ethics Jonathan Peterson, British Journal for the History of Philosophy Georg Cavallar, Intellectual History Review Eva Piirimäe, LSE Review of Books Joshua Jowitt, Philosophy Now Matt Qvotrup, History of European Ideas Ben Holland, The Los Angeles Review of Books Michael Wayne, Kantian Review Jeppe von Platz, Salongen, Runar Bjørkvik Mæland, European Journal of Political Theory Sofie Møller, Contemporary Political Theory Mehmet Ruhi Demiray, The Philosophical Quarterly Alice Pinheiro Walla, International Philosophical Quarterly Lydia L. Moland, Political Studies Review Aref Ebadi, History of Political Thought Antonino Falduto, Jurisprudence Thomas Mertens, 読書日記7冊目 Sosuke Amitani, The European Legacy Jeremiah Alberg, German Studies Review Adrian Switzer, Philosophy Editors/The Royal Institute of Philosophy, Con-Textos Kantianos, Nuria Sánchez Madrid, The English Historical Review, Laura Anna Macor
Reviews of the Japanese edition
機関誌『日本カント研究』Nihon Kant Kyokai, Takao Sugita, 年報政治学 Annual Report of Political Science, Sosuke Amitani
Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights: Implications for Theory and Practice, edited by Reidar Maliks and Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (paperback, 2018).
Review: Journal on European History of Law Elena V. Shabliy
Kantian Theory and Human Rights, Routledge, 2014. Co-edited with Andreas Føllesdal.
Online papers at Academia.edu