Professor Minchul Kim

Minchul Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Global Intellectual History Unit at Sungkyunkwan University. He received his PhD from the School of History, University of St Andrews in 2018. He is an editorial board member for the book series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and the journal History of European Ideas. His research focuses on the moral, political, and economic ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

 

Articles (in English and French)

• “Political Equality and Economic Inequality in Étienne-Géry Lenglet’s Recipe for the Modern Republic,” The Historical Journal, 69:2 (2026)
• “La Révolution française jugée par un philosophe des Lumières: une étude sur Jacques-Henri Meister,” Nottingham French Studies, 65:1 (2026)
• “Jean-Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France,” History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 111:394 (2026)
• “Commerce and Peace in the French Revolution: Rougier-Labergerie’s International Political Economy,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2026)
• “William Godwin on Democracy: The Time-Regime of Political Thought in the Age of Revolutions,” Modern Intellectual History (2025)
• “Bordeaux and Abolitionism in Revolutionary France: The Case of André-Daniel Laffon de Ladébat and the Girondins,” French Studies Bulletin, 45:171 (2024)
• “Sophie de Grouchy’s Political Thought in the Letters on Sympathy (1798),” Journal of the History of Ideas, 85:2 (2024)
• “Theories of Representative Government against Democracy during the French Revolution,” The Historian, 84:4 (2022)
• “The Political Economy of Democracy in the French Revolution: Publicola Chaussard and the Democrats under the Directory,” History of Political Thought, 43:4 (2022)
• “Démocratiser le gouvernement représentatif? La pensée politique d’Antoine Français de Nantes sous le Directoire,” Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 396 (2019)
• “Condorcet and the Viability of Democracy in Modern Republics, 1789–1794,” European History Quarterly, 49:2 (2019)
• “The Historical Politics of Volney’s Leçons d’histoire,” French Studies Bulletin, 39:148 (2018)
• “Sociability, Natural Jurisprudence, and Republicanism in the French Revolution: Jean-Baptiste Salaville’s Empiricist Science of the Legislator,” French Studies, 72:4 (2018)
• “Volney and the French Revolution,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 79:2 (2018)
• “Pierre-Antoine Antonelle and Representative Democracy in the French Revolution,” History of European Ideas, 44:3 (2018)
• “Republicanism in the Age of Commerce and Revolutions: Barère’s Reading of Montesquieu,” French History, 30:3 (2016)

 

Articles (in Korean)

• “The Debate on the Freedom of the Press in the French Revolution” (2025)
• “Le 18 brumaire” (2023)
• “The Socioeconomic Historiography of Eighteenth-Century French Maritime Commerce” (2022)
• “Nineteenth-Century Political Thought as a Response to the French Revolution” (2021)
• “Natural Law and Political Thought in Early Modern Europe” (2021)
• “Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Theory of Social Contract” (2020)
• “The French Revolution and the Archives” (2020)
• “The Jourdan Law of 1798 and National Conscription in the French Revolution” (2019)
• “Adieu, Michel Vovelle” (2019)

 

Book Translations (into Korean)

• Michael Sonenscher, Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word (Seoul, forthcoming in 2026)
• Istvan Hont, Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith (Seoul, 2025)
• Selected Letters of Catherine II (Seoul, 2022)
• Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction (Seoul, 2020)
• Franco Venturi, Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment (Seoul, 2018)
• Pierre Serna et al, Pour quoi faire la révolution (Seoul, 2013)
• Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Seoul, 2011)