Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Duncan Bell is professor of Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
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In the third part of our series David and Paul Sagar explore what the German writer and sociologist Max Weber can teach us about the pitfalls of political life and political philosophy. Why is doing politics so hard?
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Start of a new series by the excellent @robtoes.bsky.social
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Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026
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"I will never be truly English: here is why", Telegraph, 26 February 2025
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Wasn't a charge of inconsistency/incoherence also used by earlier writers to downplay his significance or value? Continuity in the charge, but discontinuity in the valence?
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Associate & Assistant Professorships in Public Policy, University of Cambridge
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this week we talk with the astonishingly smart and fun @byzantienne.bsky.social about doing history and writing fiction, empathy and emotion, and 11th century best century. enjoy! #medievalsky
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Ursula Le Guin.
