Graeme Garrard

Graeme Garrard is a writer and academic at Cardiff University (UK) where he is Professor of Political Thought and Intellectual History. He is the author of Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment (2003), Counter-Enlightenments: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (2006), (with co-author James Murphy) How to Think Politically: Sages, Sceptics and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World (2019) and The Return of the State: And Why It Is Essential For Our Health, Wealth and Happiness (2022). He also writes for newspapers and magazines, such as History Today and Philosophy Now. He is on Twitter as @GarrardGraeme. On Facebook as Graeme Garrard.