K. Steven Vincent

Steven Vincent is working on an intellectual biography of Élie Halévy (1870–1937), which will analyze the evolution of the French liberal sociopolitical tradition (that includes, most famously, Montesquieu, Constant, Tocqueville, and Taine) as it confronted the sociological and psychological breakthroughs of late nineteenth-century thought, the trauma of World War I, and the crisis of interwar European politics.