Knud Haakonssen

Knud Haakonssen is a Danish historian of moral and political thought. He has held positions in political science, philosophy and history in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, England, Scotland and Germany and is now emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Sussex. He was Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, 2005-2011, Co-Director of the St. Andrews Institute for Intellectual History, 2016-23, and he founded the Centre for Early-Modern Natural Law, Universität Erfurt, 2016-22. He is known for his work on early modern thought, natural law theory, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.

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