Prof Chris Berry
BA (Nottingham) PhD (London), FRSA, FRSE
Phone: +44 (0)141 330 5064
Location: S401, Adam Smith Building
Email: c.j.berry@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Biography
I've been at Glasgow since 1970 and Professor of Political Theory since 1996. I work at the interface between politics, history and philosophy. Recently I have been exploring political naturalism; somewhat more precisely, I am pondering what it is about being human that appears to call forth a response that is labelled political (an enterprise that I call 'the philosophical anthropology of politics'). My perspective is Humean and Hume (on whom I have a contract to write a book) is central to a longstanding research interest, and lengthy publishing record, in the Scottish Enlightenment.Publications
Berry, C. (2009) “Hume y la inflexibilidad de la justicia: propiedad, commercio y expectativas” In Annuario Filosofico, XLII/I, pp.65-88 ISSN 0066-5215
Berry, C. (2009) David Hume, New York & London: Continuum, xiv-176pp (Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers- volume 3) ISBN 9780826429803
Berry, C. (2009). “’But Art itself is Natural to Man’; Ferguson and the Principle of Spontaneity” in Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society, Eds. E. Heath and V. Merolle, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009, 143-53 + 214n-217n. ISBN 13: 9781851968657
Berry, C. (Winter 2008/9) “Luxury: From Poverty to Opulence” in Literal: Latin American Voices vol. 15, pp. 27-8 ISSN 1551-6962
Berry, C. (2007) Modeo, Deseo e Identidad, in A. Martinez & A. Gonzalez (eds) Distincion Social y Moda. Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 333-348 ISBN 84-313-2445-7
Berry, C. (2007) What’s Wrong with Epictetus’ Slippers or Hume and Superfluous Value, in M. Schabas & C.Wennerlind (eds) Hume’s Political Economy. New York: Routledge, ISBN 0 415 3200
Berry, C. (2007) Hume’s Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View, British Journal of the History of Philosophy 15(3) 529-44 ISSN 0960-8788 [print] 1469-3576 [online]
Berry, C. (2006) Smith and Science, in K. Haakonssen (ed) Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 112-35. ISBN 0521 77059-9 (hb), 0521 77924 3 (pb)
Berry, C. (2006) Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Commerce, History of Political Economy 38(2) 291-317 ISSN 0018-2702
Berry, C. (2006) Aristotle, Hobbes and Chimpanzees, Political Studies 54 (4) 827-45 ISSN 0032-3217
Berry, C. (2005) Human Nature, in I. Mackenzie (ed) Political Concepts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 404-32 ISBN 07486 16780 (hb) 07486 1677 2 (pb)
Berry, C. (2005) De la Vertu à l’Opulence: La Construction Libérale du Luxe, in O. Assouly (ed) Le Luxe: Essais sur la Fabrique de l’Ostentation. Paris: Editions de l’Institut Francais de la Mode/ Edition du Regard, 85-99 ISBN 2-914863-09-8
Berry, C. (2005) Poverty, in M. Horowitz (ed) New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Detroit: Scribner, vol. 5 1870-766 ISBN 0684 31377 4
Berry, C. (2005) Wealth, in M. Horowitz (ed) New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Detroit: Scribner, vol. 6 2460-66 ISBN 0684 31377 4
Berry, C. (2005) Chinese translation of The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation (1994). Century Publishing Group, Shanghai ISBN 7-208-054746
Berry, C. (2004) Smith under Strain, European Journal of Political Theory 3 (4) 455-63 ISSN 1474-8851
Berry, C. (2004) David Hume, in A. Kuper (ed) The Social Science Encyclopaedia (Third Edition). London: Routledge, vol.1 473-5
Berry, C. (2003) Sociality and Socialisation, in A. Braodie(ed) Cambridge Companion to Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 243-57 ISBN 0521 80273 HB
Berry, C. (2003) Scottish Enlightenment and the Idea of Civil Society, in A. Martins (ed) Sociedade Civil: Entre Miragem e Oportunidade. Coimbra: Faculdade de Letras, 99-115 ISBN 972-9038-6-0
Berry, C. (2003) Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume’s Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity, History of Political Thought 24 (3) 415-32. ISSN 0143-781X
Berry, C. (2003) Virtue, in C. Kors et al (eds ) Encylopaedia of the Enlightenment. New York: Oxford University Press, Vol.4, 225-30 ISBN 019 510434 X
Berry, C. (2002) Chinese translation of Liberty and Modernity (1998), Tianjin ren minchubanshe, 263-78 ISBN 7-201-03958-X
Selected Publications pre-2001 (books only)
Berry, C. (1997) Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, xii + 228 pp.
Berry, C. (1994) The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiv + 271 pp.
Berry, C. (1989) The Idea of Democratic Community. Hemel Hempstead: Wheatsheaf Books: New York: St. Martin's Press, xii + 129 pp.
Berry, C. (1986) Human Nature. London: Macmillan, xiv + 162 pp.,
Berry, C. (1982) Hume, Hegel and Human Nature. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, x + 229 pp.
PhD Supervision
- Human Nature (including Neo-Darwinianism)
- Political Thought in (especially) Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
- Problems in Liberalism
- The early Marx
- Adam Smith
- Charles Taylor's critique of liberalism
- The Scottish Enlightenment and Hayekian liberalism
- Green Political Theory
- Hume
- John Millar
- Oakeshott