Professor Peter D. Thomas
Head of Department / Professor - History of Political Thought
Marie Jahoda 229
- Email: peterd.thomas@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267573
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
Summary
Professor Peter D. Thomas is an historian of political thought, an historian of philosophy and a political theorist.
He has studied and worked at the University of Queensland, Freie Universität Berlin, L’Università “Federico II”, Naples, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Vienna. He has been a member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a research fellow at the University of Helsinki, and the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, and a recipient of Australian, British, German, Italian and Dutch research fellowships.
Qualifications:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- PhD (Amsterdam)
- MA (Research)
- BA (Hons) (UQ)
- BA (UQ)
Newest selected publications
Thomas, P. and Garrido, A. (2026) 'El momento gramsciano. Filosofía, hegemonía y marxismo'. Madrid: Akal. ISSN 13: 978-84-460-5765-9
Thomas, P. (2026) 'Vías democráticas hacia el socialismo: el retorno de la cuestión estratégic'. Jacobin América Latina, 11.
Thomas, P. (2025) 'L’alternative de Lénine : le double pouvoir et une politique d’un autre type'. Contretemps: Revue de Critique Communiste, https://www.contretemps.eu/alternative-lenine-double-pouvoir/.
Thomas, P. (2025) 'Doble poder: hacia otro tipo de política'. Communis, https://communispress.com/doble-poder-hacia-otro-tipo-de-politica/.
Thomas, PD. (2025) 'Lenin’s Alternative: Dual Power and a Politics of Another Type'. Communis, 1 (1). pp. 1 - 15.