Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar
AwardsBIAPT Early Career Award (2020)[1]
Education
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (PhD, 2014); University of London (MA); University of Oxford (BA)
Philosophical work
Era21st‑century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsKing's College London
Main interestshistory of political thought, political theory, moral philosophy
Websitehttps://www.paulsagar.com/

Paul Sagar is a British political theorist and Reader in Political Theory at King's College London.[2] His work focuses on the history of political thought, especially the Scottish Enlightenment (including the works of David Hume and Adam Smith), as well as contemporary normative political theory.[3]

Books

  • The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)[4][5][6]
  • Adam Smith Reconsidered: Liberty, History, and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022)[7]
  • Basic Equality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024)[8]
  • Interpreting Adam Smith: Critical Essays [editor] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

References

  1. ^ "BIAPT 2020 Early-Career Prize Winner: Dr Paul Sagar". BIAPT. 3 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Paul Sagar – personal website". paulsagar.com. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  3. ^ "Paul Sagar – KCL profile". King’s College London. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  4. ^ Fricke, Christel (9 October 2018). "Review of The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
  5. ^ Schweizer, Karl W. (17 November 2022). "The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith: by Paul Sagar, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2018, 280 pp., $45.00/£37.95 (cloth)". The European Legacy. 27 (7–8): 862–864. doi:10.1080/10848770.2021.1985241. ISSN 1084-8770.
  6. ^ Hanley, Ryan P. (July 2019). "Paul Sagar: The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 248.)". The Review of Politics. 81 (3): 527–529. doi:10.1017/S0034670519000093. ISSN 0034-6705.
  7. ^ "Adam Smith Reconsidered – book page". Preigu.de. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  8. ^ Floris, Giacomo (2025). "Review of Basic Equality". The Review of Politics. 87 (3): 465–467. doi:10.1017/S0034670525000129.
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