Gopal Balakrishnan

Gopal Balakrishnan, a distinguished scholar known for his in-depth research and insightful publications in his work in modern European intellectual history, political theory, philosophy, and economic history, began his intellectual career as an undergraduate at Cornell University where he received a College Scholar B.A. in 1989. He continued his course of studies at UCLA, where he completed a Ph.D. in Modern European History in 1998. Subsequently, he was honored with prestigious awards, including the Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence and the Harper Schmidt Fellowship at the University of Chicago.

Balakrishnan's work displays an interdisciplinary erudition spanning the fields of history, political theory, philosophy, and economics. This breadth of interests formed the basis of his doctoral research, which evolved into his groundbreaking first book, "The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt." This work provided a meticulous analysis of Schmitt’s political thought conceived as a series of responses to the crises of the German and European state systems from 1919 to 1945. This work presented the first comprehensive account of Schmitt’s work in any language.

He continued to develop his distinctive method of reconstructing and contextualizing political thought in essays, Many of these appeared in "Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of War," offering reflections on the history of the interstate system and the future of warfare, the significance of Machiavelli as a theorist of founding new orders, of De Tocqueville as a conservative critic of democracy, and on the European origins of identity politics.

More recently, Balakrishnan has been working on a reconstruction of Karl Marx's economic thought that identifies its concealed conceptual structure, making its historical and logical assumptions more apparent and thus opening up new questions regarding its adequacy as an account of the structure and history of capitalism.

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