Isaac Nakhimovsky
Intellectual history of Europe since the 17th century; history of political thought; historiography of international law and political economy
Isaac Nakhimovsky is Professor of History and Humanities, with a secondary appointment in Political Science. He is the author of The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Princeton, 2024) as well as The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte (Princeton, 2011). He has also collaborated on an edition of Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation (Hackett, 2013) and two volumes of essays on eighteenth-century political thought and its post-revolutionary legacies: Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2017), and Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought (Harvard, 2018). In 2026 he became co-editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History.
Selected other publications:
“Georg Lukács and Revolutionary Realpolitik, 1918–19: An Essay on Ethical Action, Historical Judgment, and the History of Political Thought,” Journal of the History of Ideas 83, no. 1 (2022): 63-85.
