Background
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 has extensive experience teaching the history of philosophy – both ancient and modern – and 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 2021-2024.
Reidar is married to Véronique Pouillard, who does interesting work in economic history.
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Books
Kant and the French Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2022
Kant's Politics in Context, Oxford University Press, 2014. Paperback, 2017.
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, 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 Ima-inat, 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
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