History
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Dr. Michael Behrent
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Michael Behrent has
been at Denison since 2005, before which he taught at the College of
Wooster. He received his BA from Brown University, and his doctorate
from New York University. The classes that he teaches include Modern
Europe, Modern France, the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, and
Modern European Intellectual History. His research deals with
various aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French
intellectual history, with a particular emphasis on the history of
political thought. His dissertation, "Society Incarnate: Association,
Society, and Religion in French Political Thought, 1825-1912," examines
the way in which a religious conception of society (and social
conception of religion) provided the nineteenth-century
republican and socialist thinkers with a framework for grappling with
the post-revolutionary social order. He is also interested in post-1968 French
political thought, including Michel Foucault's engagement with
neo-liberalism and the thought of Marcel Gauchet (the subject of an
article he published in After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the
Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France, edited by Julian
Bourg (Lexington Books, 2004). Behrent also writes regularly on
American political thought for La Vie des Idees, a French journal
associated with the think-tank La Republique des Idees.
