PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He works in the history of political ideas (16th-18th centuries) and contemporary political philosophy. He has taught at the University of Paris 1, the University of Rouen and the University of Quebec in Montreal. His research focuses on republican thought, in its historical and normative dimensions, as well as on methodological problems related to intellectual history.
Contact: hamel_christopher@yahoo.fr
Further information: CESPRA; academia.edu
Featured publications
Hamel, C. (2020). Beyond “The General Consent of the Principall Puritans and Jesuits against Kings”: The Rationalist Plea for Resistance in John Milton and Algernon Sidney. In C. Gheeraert-Graffeuille & G. Vaughan (Eds.) Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000 Practices, Representations and Ideas. Palgrave.
Hamel, C. (2017). Are rights less important for republicans than for liberals? Pettit versus Pettit. Contemporary Political Theory, 16(4), 478–500.
Y. Bosc, R. Dalisson; J. Y. Frétigné, C. Hamel y C. Lounissi (eds.) (2015). Cultures des républicanimses. Éditions Kimé
Hamel, C. (2013). The Republicanism of John Milton: Natural Rights, Civic Virtue and the Dignity of Man, History of Political Thought, 34 (1), 35-65.