Michael Sonenscher

Michael Sonenscher is Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was Director of Studies in History for many years. Educated by E. P. Thompson, among others, at the University of Warwick, he has published widely on French and European history and the history of political thought. His books include Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth-Century French Trades (1989), Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution (2007) and Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution (2008). Michael Sonenscher’s most recent book, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Division of Labour, the Politics of the Imagination and the Concept of Federal Government is discussed in the ‘New Work in Intellectual History’ section of this website.