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Ming Kit Wong
MA MPhil Cantab, MSc Oxon
Research Topic:
I am a DPhil student in Political Theory focusing on postwar anti-utopian liberal thought. My doctoral project is supervised by Professor David Leopold, and it is jointly funded by Magdalen College and the DPIR.
I have remained at Oxford to pursue the DPhil after completing the MSc in Political Theory Research under the supervision of Professor Teresa Bejan. I additionally hold an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge, where I first read History as an undergraduate.
Alongside my academic work, I currently serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review, an Oxford-based publication covering current affairs, political theory, and international relations.
Research
My research explores the political thought and intellectual history of the twentieth century and contemporary period.
In my current project, I aim both to reconsider postwar liberal attitudes towards utopia and improve our understanding of contemporary anti-utopianism. I shall do so principally by examining the thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty.
More broadly, I am keenly interested in methodological debates surrounding the study of intellectual history, as well as the relevance of historiography to contemporary politics.
Teaching
I offer to teach papers in both History and Politics:
Theories of the State
Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau
Political Thought: Bentham to Weber
Political and Social Thought in the Age of Enlightenment
Publications
Journal Articles
- ‘Canadian Idealism & the Political Philosophy of John Watson’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 28, no. 2 (2023): 5–33.
- ‘The Indian Constitution and the Foundation of Democracy’, Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs 2 (2021): 120–43.
Essays and Reviews
- ‘Histories of Fear’, The Vital Center 1, no. 1 (Fall 2023): 74–76.
- 'The Roman Emperor', Oxford Political Review, 28 September 2023.
- ‘Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber’, Contemporary Political Theory (2023).
- ‘The Political Thought of Raymond Geuss’, Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2, no. 1 (2023): 95–105.
- ‘The Cambridge School and the Turn to the Present’, Oxford Centre for Intellectual History, 2 March 2023.
- ‘The Oxford School for Philosophers’, Oxford Political Review, 25 February 2023.
- ‘An Idiosyncratic Memoir’, Oxford Political Review, 3 May 2022.
Interviews
- 'John Dunn’, podcast episode, Oxford Political Review, 27 March 2023.
- ‘Charles Taylor’, podcast episode, Oxford Political Review, 30 January 2023.
- ‘Gregory Claeys: Utopianism for a Dying Planet’, Oxford Political Review, 25 September 2022.
- ‘Quentin Skinner’, podcast episode, Oxford Political Review, 27 August 2022.
- ‘Lois McNay: The Gender of Critical Theory’, Oxford Political Review, 15 May 2022.
- ‘Raymond Geuss’, video recording, Oxford Political Review, 10 April 2022.
- ‘Samuel Moyn: the Carlyle Lectures on Cold War Liberalism’, Oxford Political Review, 7 April 2022.
- ‘Jan-Werner Müller on democracy and its institutions’, Varsity, 6 July 2021.
- ‘Daisy Dixon on aesthetics and the philosophy of art’, Varsity, 4 June 2021.
- ‘Steven Pinker at the Cambridge Union: On Revolution and Conservatism’, Varsity, 8 May 2021.
- ‘Louis Menand on the American culture of the Cold War’, Varsity, 29 April 2021.
- ‘“Violence has become more fratricidal”: in conversation with Dr Kapila’, Varsity, 22 January 2021.