Anthony Burns

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Biography

Tony Burns is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He has a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Sheffield, a PGCE with Distinction from the University of Huddersfield, and a PhD from Nottingham Trent University.

Expertise Summary

M12070 Modern European Thought

M13061 The Politics of Science Fiction

M14021 The Philosophy of Social Research

Research Summary

The History of Political Thought

The Aristotelian Natural Law Tradition

The Hegel-Marx Connection

Continental Political Thought

Political Theory and Science Fiction

Current Research Projects

I am currently bringing to fruition two research projects. The first relates to a book entitled Aristotle and Natural Law, which is to be published by Continuum Press in 2009-2010. The second related to a volume, jointly edited with Simon Thompson (University of West of England), entitled Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition, which is to be published by Palgrave, also in 2009-2010. Once these have been completed my next project will be a work devoted to the political philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, with special reference to Nussbaum's work on cosmopolitanism and global justice, which is to be published by The University of Wales Press.

Selected Publications

• BURNS, T., 2010. Aristotle and Natural Law. Continuum Books.
• BURNS, TONY, 2008. Political Theory, Science Fiction and Utopian Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin and "The Dispossessed". Lexington Books.
• BURNS, T., 1996. Natural Law and Political Ideology in the Philosophy of Hegel. Avebury, Aldershot.
• BURNS, T. AND FRASER, I. EDS., 2000. The Hegel-Marx Connection. MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London.

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Past Research

The Aristotelian philosophical and political tradition; the Aristotelian conception of natural law and its impact in the later history of political thought, and especially on the ideology of conservatism; the influence of Aristotle on the ethical and political thought of Hegel and Marx.

Future Research

Dr Burns has more recently also become interested in the role of science in society, and in the political significance of science and technology, especially as these themes have been explored in works of literature. When he has completed his book on The Aristotelian Natural Law Tradition, he plans to develop further his interest in the theme of science and politics as this is explored in works of literature, especially utopian/dystopian literature. His ultimate aim is to produce a book, which will have the title Science and Politics in Utopia.

• BURNS, T. & THOMPSON, S., ed., 2010. Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition. London: Palgrave.
• BURNS, T., 2010. Aristotle and the Politics of Recognition in the Ancient World. In: BURNS, T, THOMPSON, S., eds. Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition. Palgrave.
• BURNS, T., 2010. Aristotle and Natural Law. Continuum Books.
• BURNS, T., 2010. Capitalism, Modernity and the Nation State. Capital & Class, (100).
• BURNS, TONY, 2010. Interpreting and Appropriating Texts in the History of Political Thought: Quentin Skinner and Poststructuralism. Contemporary Political Theory.
• BURNS, TONY, 2010. Aristotelianism. In: BEVIR, MARK, ed. The Sage Encyclopaedia of Political Theory. London: Sage.
• BURNS, T., 2009. ‘Revolutionary Aristotelianism? The Political Thought of Aristotle, Marx and MacIntyre’. In: BLACKLEDGE, PAUL & KNIGHT, KELVIN, ed. Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press.
• BURNS, TONY, 2009. Aristotle. In: BOUCHER, D, KELLY, P. J., eds. Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present. 2nd. rev. ed. Oxford University Press.
• BURNS, TONY, 2008. Political Theory, Science Fiction and Utopian Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin and "The Dispossessed". Lexington Books.
• BURNS, T., 2006. Review of John Hoffman and Paul Graham, Introduction to Political Theory (London: Pearson Longman, 2006). British Politics, 1(2), 428-29.
• BURNS, T., 2006. Hegel, identity politics and the problem of slavery. Culture, Theory and Critique, 47(1), 87-104.
• BURNS, T, 2005. ‘Science and Politics in The Dispossessed: Le Guin and the “Science Wars’’. In: DAVIS, L. AND STILLMAN, P., ed. The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Lexington Books, pp. 195-215
• BURNS, T., 2005. Whose Aristotle? Which Marx? Ethics, law and justice in Aristotle and in Marx. Imprints: A Journal of Analytical Socialism, 8(2), 125-155.
• BURNS, T., 2005. Hegel. In: Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 45-58
• BURNS, T., 2004. Marxism and Science Fiction: A Celebration of the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin. Capital and Class, 2004(84), 139-148.
• BURNS, T., 2003. Aristotle. In: Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present. Oxford University Press, pp. 73-91
• BURNS, T., 2003. The tragedy of slavery: Aristotle's Rhetoric and the history of the concept of natural law. History of Political Thought, 24(1), 16-36.
• BURNS, T., 2002. Sophocles' Antigone and the history of the concept of natural law. Political Studies, 50(3), 545-557.
• BURNS, T., 2002. Hegel (1770-1831). In: Interpreting Modern Political Philosophy from Machiavelli to Marx. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 162-79
• BURNS, T., 2002. Joseph Dietzgen and the history of Marxism. Science & Society, 66(2), 202-227.
• BURNS, T., 2002. Dialectic and Enlightenment: A Critical Review of James Daly’s, Deals and Ideals: Two Concepts of Enlightenment. Fealsunacht, 2, 58-62.
• BURNS, T., 2001. Karl Kautsky: Ethics and Marxism. In: Marxism's Ethical Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 15-50.
• BURNS, T., 2001. Recognition Versus Distribution: Three Works on Equality. Contemporary Politics, 7(4), 319-330.
• BURNS, T., 2000. Review of Sean Sayers, Marxism and Human Nature. Radical Philosophy, 100, 64.
• BURNS, T., 2000. The Purloined Hegel: Semiology in the Thought of Saussure and Derrida. History of the Human Sciences, 13(4), 1-24.
• BURNS, T., 2000. What is Politics? Robinson Crusoe, Deep Ecology and Immanuel Kant. Politics, 20(2), 93-98.
• BURNS, T., 2000. Zamyatin's We and Postmodernism. Utopian Studies, 11(1), 66-90.
• BURNS, T., 2000. Review of Gary K. Browning Hegel and the History of Political Philosophy. Studies in Marxism, 7, 160-161.
• BURNS, T., 2000. Review of M. B. Steger and T. Carver eds., Engels after Marx (Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, 1999). Political Studies, 48(4), 833.
• BURNS, T., 2000. Marx and Scientific Method: A Non-Metaphysical View. In: The Hegel-Marx Connection. MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London, pp. 79-104
• BURNS, T., 2000. Introduction: An Historical Survey of the Hegel-Marx Connection. In: The Hegel-Marx Connection. MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London, pp. 1-33
• BURNS, T., 2000. Materialism in Ancient Greek Philosophy and in the Writings of the Young Marx. Historical Materialism, 7, 3-40.
• BURNS, T., 2000. Aquinas's Two Doctrines of Natural Law. Political Studies, 48(5), 929-946.
• BURNS, T. AND FRASER, I. EDS., 2000. The Hegel-Marx Connection. MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London.
• BURNS, T., 1999. The Source of the Encyclopedie Article 'Loi Naturelle (morale)'. In: Grotius, Pufendort and Modern Natural Law. Ashgate Publishing Group, Aldershot & London.
• BURNS, T., 1999. John Gray and the Death of Conservatism. Contemporary Politics, 5(1), 7-24.
• BURNS, T., 1998. Aristotle and Natural Law. History of Political Thought, 19(2), 142-166.
• BURNS, T., 1998. Metaphysics and Politics in Aristotle and Hegel. In: ANDREW DOBSON & JEFFREY STANYER, ed. Contemporary Political Studies 1998, Belfast. Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Belfast, UK, 1, pp. 387-399
• BURNS, T., 1997. Hegel's Interpretation of the Philosophy of Heraclitus: Some Observations. In: GERRY STOKER AND JEFFREY STANYER, ed. Contemporary Political Studies 1997. Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Belfast, UK, 1, pp. 228-239
• BURNS, T., 1996. Natural Law and Political Ideology in the Philosophy of Hegel. Avebury, Aldershot.
• BURNS, T., 1996. The Theoretical Underpinnings of Chicago Sociology in the 1920s and 30s. Sociological Review, 44(3), 474-494.
• BURNS, T., 1995. Hegel and Natural Law Theory. Politics, 15(1), 27-32.
• BURNS, T., 1995. The Ideological Location of Hegel's Political Thought. In: JONI LOVENDUSKI AND JEFFREY STANYER, ed. Contemporary Political Studies 1995, Belfast. Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Belfast, UK, pp. 1301-1308
• BURNS, T., 1994. Review of S. C. Bosworth, Hegels Political Philosophy: The Test Case For Constitutional Monarchy (Garland, London and New York, 1991). Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 30, 64-71.
• BURNS, T., 1986. The Sources of the Encyclopedia Article on Justice: A Reply to Professor Thielemann. Diderot Studies, 22, 27-40.
• BURNS, T., 1984. The Source of the Encyclopedie Article 'Loi naturelle (morale)'. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 7(1), 39-48.