Madeleine Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School. Armstrong is a historian of political thought, with a particular interest in the Enlightenment. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including History of European Ideas. Prior to her appointment at the Hamilton School, Armstrong was the Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and a lecturer and project manager in the School of Government at Oxford University.
Armstrong’s current book project, Love and Duty in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke, explores Burke’s unique contribution to Enlightenment debates about family life and liberty. It highlights an important strand of Enlightenment thought, powerfully expressed in Burke’s writings, that grounded liberty in the rights of the family rather than in the rights of individuals.
“‘What they owe to their children’: Edmund Burke on parental love and liberty,” History of European Ideas (9 December, 2024).
“Edmund Burke’s ‘Age of Chivalry’,” Studies in Burke and His Time, Vol. 30 (2021).
Review of Enlightenment Virtue, 1680-1794. Edited by James Fowler and Marine Ganofsky. (Oxford Studies in Enlightenment) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2020., in Modern Language Review, Vol. 116, Part 1 (January, 2021).
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