Dr Caroline Ashcroft

I completed my BA at Cambridge in Social and Political Sciences, followed by the MA in Intellectual History and History of Political Thought at UCL/Queen Mary. I gained my PhD in the political thought of Hannah Arendt at Cambridge. Since then I have taught at Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London.

Twentieth century political theory and history of political thought, particularly on concepts of violence in politics, technology, environmentalism, and feminism.

I teach the following at LMH:

• Prelims Introduction to the Theory of Politics
• Theory of Politics
• Advanced Paper in Theories of Justice
• Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau
• Political Thought: Bentham to Weber

Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

‘The Discourse on Technology in Cold War Political Thought: Media, Modernity and Freedom,’ History of European Ideas (2023).

‘From the German Revolution to the New Left: Revolution and Dissent in Arendt and Marcuse,’ Modern Intellectual History, 19:3 (2022), 835-858. 

Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

‘From Resistance to Revolution: the Limits of Nonviolence in Arendt’s “Civil Disobedience,”’ History of European Ideas, 44:4 (2018), 461-476.

‘The Polis and the Res Publica: Two Arendtian Models of Political Violence,’ History of European Ideas, 44:1 (2018), 128-142.

‘Jewishness and the Problem of Nationalism: A Genealogy of Arendt’s Early Political Thought,’ Modern Intellectual History, 14:2 (2017), 412-449.