Larry Siedentop is a United States.-born British political philosopher with a special interest in nineteenth-century French liberalism.
Education
He then received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford (equivalent to a Doctor of Philosophy elsewhere) for a thesis on the thought of Joseph de Maistre and Maine de Biran, written at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin.
Career
He is the author of Democracy in Europe, and an occasional contributor to several major British daily newspapers, including the Financial Times and The Times. From 1965 to 1968 Siedentop was a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, but he spent most of his academic career as a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer. After retiring from Oxford Siedentop was a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, Queen Victoria Eugenia Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and a Visiting Fellow in Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Street Andrews in Scotland.
In November 2004 Siedentop was invested with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to political thought and higher education.
Politics
"Inventing the Individual (The Origins of Western Liberalism)". ""A Nation Stuck in Selfish Mode: Too Much Liberalism is Quite the Wrong Diagnosis for British Decline"".