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Legal Analogies in Cicero's Political Thought Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Maarten Klink
Abstract: Cicero's political thought is pervaded by analogies of private law that helped him to overcome philosophical difficulties. One serious difficulty was the demand of natural law that property must be owned by the one capable of managing it. This posed a problem to that most remarkable piece of property of all: the res publica. While incapable of managing it, the people was the only theoretically
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A Calf from a Tree-Trunk: From a Rustic Proverb to a Standard Scholastic Argument Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Sergey Ivanov
Abstract: The paper deals with the expression "God is able to make a calf from a tree-trunk"—a very popular phrase in medieval treatises, especially in the context of God's omnipotence. Its attestations are thoroughly documented and considered, contexts discussed, and attributions examined. It is argued that the attribution to Anselm of Canterbury is false and late. It is claimed that the phrase goes
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"The right we have to our owne bodies, goods, and liberties": The Freedom of the Ancient Constitution and Common Law in Milton's Early Prose Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Benjamin Woodford
Abstract: Scholars have long recognized the importance of liberty in Milton's early prose, but they tend to center their analysis on republicanism. Although he would go on to express republicanism, Milton's early tracts tie liberty to English political and legal traditions rather than classical ones. Milton, in his early tracts, utilizes the language of the ancient constitution and the common law as
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Taking Pragmatism Seriously Enough: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the British Debate over Pragmatism, ca. 1900–1910 Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ymko Braaksma
Abstract: Classical pragmatism has often been branded as being primarily a new theory of truth. Using F.C.S. Schiller's response to an article written by F.H. Bradley, I show that, in fact, a certain theory of thought is the essential point of pragmatism according to Schiller as well as John Dewey and William James. I go on to argue that without taking this theory of thought into account we cannot
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Alternate Edens: History, Evolution, and Origins in UNESCO's Cultural and Scientific History of Mankind Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Emily M. Kern
Abstract: In 1963, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published the first volume of its long-awaited cultural and scientific history of mankind. First announced in 1948, the History of Mankind was envisioned as a comprehensive, universal human history, from the evolution of Homo sapiens to the middle of the twentieth century. This article uses editorial conflicts
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Psychiatry and Decolonization: Histories of Transcultural Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ana Antić
Abstract: This review essay explores recent historical and anthropological literature on the emergence and development of transcultural psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century. It examines how postcolonial psychiatry attempted to remove itself from its erstwhile colonial frameworks and strove to introduce new concepts and paradigms to make itself relevant in the context of decolonization
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Donald R. Kelley (1931–2023) Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Michael C. Carhart
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Donald R. Kelley (1931–2023) Michael C. Carhart Donald R. Kelley passed away in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on August 24, 2023, at age 92. Executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas from 1985 until his retirement in 2005, he was a much sought-after guide for his astonishing breadth of learning, his clarity of insight, and his
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Thinking about Chemistry in Byzantium and the Islamic World Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Alexandre M. Roberts
Abstract: This article investigates several discussions of “chemistry,” understood as an analysts’ category referring to theories and practices dealing with the structure and transformation of matter. By reading these texts (a treatise defending kīmiyāʾ by al-Fārābī, the famous passage from Ibn Sīnā’s Shifāʾ on transmutation, Ibn Taymiyyah’s fatwā against kīmiyāʾ, Michael Psellos’s treatise On Making
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The Idea of Deafness as Disability in Renaissance Germany Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Jacob M. Baum
Abstract: This essay assesses the degree to which the deaf were regarded as a disabled population in medical, religious, and legal thought during the Renaissance, chronologically identified with the period between approximately 1500 and 1650. The primary geographic focus rests on the German-speaking lands of central Europe. Analysis shows that the idea of deafness as a disability here was composite
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Euhemerus and Euhemerism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Felix Schlichter
Abstract: This paper looks at the way in which scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries conceptualized the relationship between sacred history and pagan mythology through the lens of their approach to the ancient Greek writer Euhemerus. It argues that the popular contemporary tendency to equate Euhemerism with the historical interpretation of pagan mythology is the product of early eighteenth
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Bureaucracy: The Making of a Buzzword Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Anna Joukovskaia
Abstract: This article offers a revision of the history of Vincent de Gournay’s neologism bureaucracy. The author shows that it was designed as a polemical tool against a tendency to multiply customs, tax-collecting and controlling bureaus, which “strangled commerce” in France. The origin of the term had more to do with the pre-physiocratic theory of liberal economy than with political philosophy.
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"The Stereotype Takes Care of Everything": Labor Antisemitism and Critical Theory During World War II Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Charles H. Clavey
Abstract: During World War II, the Institute for Social Research conducted an innovative study of American working-class antisemitism. This article goes beyond existing literature by reconstructing the project’s evolving understanding of labor antisemitism—from ideology to psychopathology. This change, it argues, arose from the project’s methods, findings, and analytical concepts—especially the long-overlooked
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Myth, Modernity, and the Legacy of the Axial Age: Taylor, Habermas, Assmann, and Jaspers Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Carmen Lea Dege
Abstract: This article analyzes the legacy of the idea of an Axial Age with a particular focus on Habermas, Taylor, Assmann, and Jaspers. I ask what has motivated the use of the concept and illustrate the ways in which it is situated in the twentieth-century debate on myth. I then respond to the limitations of the concept’s legacy and turn to two overlooked elements of Jaspers’s initial intervention:
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Historians of Ideas Rush in Where Stratigraphers Fear to Tread Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Joyce E. Chaplin
Abstract: Humanist and scientific analyses of the Anthropocene concept may be distinctive as a coinvestigation across disciplinary borders. While scientists only in 2023 hypothesized the Anthropocene’s inception in the 1950s (as measured by atomic residue), humanists have for several decades been investigating the concept as a probable reality and argue for its longer chronology. The six books reviewed
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Books Received Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-10-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received ________ Balasubramanian, Aditya. Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xxi, 323p., bibl., ill., index, $45. Neoliberalism in postcolonial India. Binder, Marnie. A Pragmatist Philosophy of History. Lanham, MD.: Lexington, 2023. xvii, 135p., bibl.
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The Wise Adviser Trap: Catastrophic Decision-Making in Herodotus and Thucydides Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Emma Lunbeck, Robert Stone
Abstract: This paper reads parallel scenes in Herodotus and Thucydides to find a shared emphasis on flawed deliberation as the cause of catastrophic defeats for imperial powers. Both texts question the foresight and rhetorical strategies of self-styled wise advisers who ironically advance the very decisions they seek to forestall. Yet both authors also suggest that better strategies of advice could
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Portable Scholasticism? The Intellectual Horizons of Gervase of Tilbury Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Philippa Byrne
Abstract: The career of Gervase of Tilbury (c.1150–1220) opens a window into the complexity of the late twelfth-century intellectual world. Often dismissed as a mere compiler, Gervase was a scholastic thinker outside the schools who adapted complex theological arguments for an English prince, a Sicilian king, and a German emperor. His writing reveals the "portability" of scholastic thought. It also
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On Indexing: The Birth and Early Development of an Idea Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Giancarlo Abbamonte, Craig Kallendorf
Abstract: Incorporating techniques from book history into traditional intellectual history, this article traces the effective origin of indexing to the early printed editions of two lexicographical works, Lorenzo Valla's Elegantie and Niccolò Perotti's Cornu copiae, and then follows its development through the editions of the Roman poet Virgil published between 1500 and 1800. Indexing practices turn
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Art as Critical Experience in Theodor W. Adorno and John Dewey Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Athanassia Williamson
Abstract: The idea of risk, of the willingness to be exposed to the possibility of total failure, is a core value of Adorno's philosophical and aesthetic modernism. This willingness to be exposed to risk is also a quality that Adorno associates most strongly, in aesthetics, with Deweyan pragmatism. Against tendencies to assume an irreconcilability of critical theory and pragmatism, this essay ventures
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Hannah Arendt among the Cold War Liberals Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Samuel Moyn
Abstract: Hannah Arendt wasn't a liberal, she repeatedly declared. Yet in a series of ways she was a fellow traveler of Cold War liberals. And caught up as she also was in neo-imperial and racist entanglements that go entirely unmentioned in promotional accounts of Cold War liberalism and have barely begun to be challenged even today, she helps cast their thought in relief. Yet there is a proviso.
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The Neoliberal Transition in Intellectual and Economic History Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Nicholas Mulder
Abstract: This review essay examines three recent books about the advent of neoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that after three decades of scholarship that have mapped neoliberalism as a set of policies and an epoch, we are now witnessing a new turn in the literature focused on understanding why neoliberalism came to dominate the global political and economic order in the first place.
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Notices Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-07-08
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notices Morris D. Forkosch Prize The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,500) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2021: Ross Carroll, for Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, published by Princeton University Press. Eligible submissions
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Mapping Atlantis: Olof Rudbeck and the Use of Maps in Early Modern Scholarship Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Charlotta Forss
Abstract: This article merges the history of maps with new research on scholarship, showcasing how the use of maps significantly shaped early modern knowledge. More specifically, the article examines the scholarly practices of the seventeenth-century Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who thought he had discovered Atlantis. The article identifies four areas of particular importance, highlighting how maps
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The Accountants of Nineveh: Exile Jews and Capitalism in British Imperial Thinking Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Abstract: This essay presents and discusses how James Rennel (1742–1830), a royal cartographer in eighteenth-century Bengal and father of British Modern Geography, presented and discussed the biblical concept of "exile" as a "practice" for the benefit of the empire. Following Rennell's readings in Biblical and Classical texts, this essay shows how Rennell intervened in contemporary European debates
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Women's Reception of Kant, 1790–1810 Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Karen Green
Abstract: This article contributes to the re-evaluation of narratives in the history of ideas that have failed to consider women's writings. The laudatory assessment of Kant as a philosophical innovator promoted by Germaine de Staël is questioned and his moral epistemology examined in relation to that of Elise Reimarus, Catharine Cockburn, Catharine Macaulay, and Isabelle de Charrière. The moral and
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The Romance of the Republic: Class Conflict and the Problem of Progress in Thomas Arnold's History of Rome (1838–42) Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Vicky Randall
Abstract: This article repositions Thomas Arnold as a major nineteenth-century historian through an analysis of his most important work, the History of Rome (1838–42). While scholars have focused primarily on Arnold's role as headmaster of Rugby School and Liberal Anglican theologian, I examine his historical contribution in the context of the Romantic movement. Building on the work of B. G. Niebuhr
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Anarchism in One Country: Diego Abad de Santillán and the Invention of Participatory National Economic Planning in Interwar Anarchism Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Robert Christl
Abstract: This article examines the transformation that occurred in anarchist political economy during the interwar period by tracing the intellectual trajectory of Diego Abad de Santillán, an important labor organizer and policymaker during the Spanish Revolution and Civil War (1936–39). Representative of a broader intellectual struggle within anarchism, Abad de Santillán moved away from nineteenth-century
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Linguistic Diplomacy: Roman Jakobson between East and West, 1956–68 Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Michael Brinley
Abstract: Roman Jakobson remains a crucial figure in the history of linguistics and literary criticism. This paper explores how a mid-twentieth-century intellectual curated his own legacy across Cold War divides. Thinking with Jakobson's own formulation of communication functions, this paper argues for a connection between the success of particular structuralist ideas in academic contexts and the tactical
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"A Primitive Kind of Superstition": The Idea of the Paranoid Style in Art, Psychiatry, and Politics Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Nicolas Guilhot
Abstract: Popularized by Richard Hofstadter, the notion of "paranoid style" is the most influential attempt at applying the category of paranoia to the study of politics. Yet, the success of this elegant formula conceals a complex history and a set of unarticulated assumptions about the connections between symbolic phenomena, psychopathological states, and politics. The article proceeds to recover
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The Cambridge Greek Lexicon: An Essay-Review Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Christopher Stray
Abstract: This is an essay-review of The Cambridge Greek Lexicon.
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Notices Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-04-04
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notices _____ Morris D. Forkosch Prize The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,500) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2021: Ross Carroll, for Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, published by Princeton University Press. Eligible submissions
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Rome as "Part of the Heavens"? Leon Battista Alberti's Descriptio urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Ptolemy's Almagest Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Maren Elisabeth Schwab
Abstract: In his Descriptio urbis Romae, Leon Battista Alberti provides step-by-step instructions for how to draw the outlines of Rome. The image transmitted through Alberti’s text is so accurate that it is justly described as the first “map” of Rome after the Forma Urbis (3rd c. CE). Alberti's idea was sparked by the renewed reading of the works of Claudius Ptolemy: the Geography, but also—as I argue
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Occupy the Commonplaces: Machiavelli and the Aristotelian Tradition of the Topics Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Abram Kaplan
Abstract: Anticipating sixteenth-century trends in vernacular Aristotelianism, Machiavelli concealed his theoretical engagement with Aristotle behind a veil of examples. Scholars have established that in The Prince, Machiavelli employed topical dialectic to update ancient maxims for the modern era. I show how he used dialectic to occupy and transform Aristotelian commonplaces that justified Renaissance
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Knowing Old Age in the Renaissance: Medicine, Poetry, and Spirituality in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Encyclopedia of Old Age Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Hannah Marcus
Abstract: Over more than thirty years the Bolognese botanist, natural historian, and physician Ulisse Aldrovandi compiled his Pandechion epistemonicon—a manuscript encyclopedia composed of pasted note slips drawn from books he was reading. This article examines the 580 slips that comprise Aldrovandi’s Pandechion entry on old age. The entry allows us to examine how an early modern physician and his
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The Abbé d'Aubignac's Homer and the Culture of the Street in Seventeenth-Century Paris Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 William Theiss
Abstract: This article interprets the abbé d’Aubignac’s 1715 Conjectures académiques, ou, Dissertation sur l’Iliade—the first text to posit the non-existence of Homer—in light of the Parisian literary underground of the mid-seventeenth century. It shows that the city’s nascent street culture influenced regimes of authorship and, ultimately, classical scholarship on Homer. In general, it argues for
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Max Weber, the Rise of the Polis, and the "Hoplite Revolution" Theory Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Roel Konijnendijk, Fernando Echeverría
Abstract: With his essay “Agrarverhältnisse im Altertum,” Max Weber pushed the scholarly narrative of the rise of the Ancient Greek polis closer to what was to become the paradigm of the twentieth century: that the unique political development of Greece followed from the rise of a new kind of warrior, the hoplite. But the scholars who would enshrine this “hoplite revolution” theory seem to have been
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Historians and Programmers in the 1970s: Formal Languages, the Writing of History, and Ideas of Science Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Pedro Cristovão dos Santos
Abstract: This article analyzes some of the issues raised by historians after turning to computers for historical research in the 1960s and 1970s. The main point is to enrich this context by looking into the debates computer programmers were having in their own field at the same time. In particular, the use of formal languages to enhance the theoretical basis of both practices is discussed. A second
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The Remnants of Giorgio Agamben: The Omnibus Homo Sacer upon Its Completion Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Udi Greenberg
Abstract: This essay reviews Giorgio Agamben’s Omnibus Homo Sacer, a monumental project of nine books that was recently completed after two decades. Alongside outlining the project’s key claims, the essay reflects on its uneven reception: it seeks to explain why Agamben’s claims on politics, law, and violence received enormous attention, while his writings on economics and religion were largely ignored
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Notices Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notices Morris D. Forkosch Prize The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,500) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2021: Ross Carroll, for Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, published by Princeton University Press. Eligible submissions
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How to Do Things with Words: Antifascism as a Differentially Mobilizing Ideology, from the Popular Front to the Black Power Movement Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Giuliana Chamedes
Abstract This article argues that two distinctive varieties of antifascism took shape in the 1930s and endured through the late 1970s. These two varieties—Popular Front antifascism and anti-imperial antifascism—were in dialogue but in opposition to one another, and both were transnational mobilizing ideologies. Investigating these two antifascist movements allows us to place Europe in the wider world
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The Linguistic Terror in France according to Jean Paulhan and Jean-Paul Sartre Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Jonathan Doering
Abstract: The literary critic and NRF editor Jean Paulhan devised a way of thinking about fluctuating historical and psychological attitudes toward language, organizing them into a dialectic of "Rhetoric" and "Terror." In this article, I focus on Paulhan and Sartre's response to the interwar crisis of Terror and explore Rhetoric and Terror as a heuristic in the intellectual history of France.
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"I am aware that this letter may be offensive": The Unapologetic Achievements of Ruth Barcan Marcus and Marjorie Glicksman Grene Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Jonathan Strassfeld
Abstract: This article presents a case study in the complex of pressures and attitudes that shaped the professional lives and intellectual legacies of twentieth-century American philosophers, examining the writings and careers of two of the discipline's pioneering women: Ruth Barcan Marcus and Marjorie Glicksman Grene. As members of the small cohort of women trained in philosophy during the first half
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Rethinking War, Nature, and Supernature in Early Modern Scholasticism: Introduction Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Ian Campbell
Abstract: The History of Political Thought is a discipline which is very closely aligned with the Anglophone liberal political tradition. It has not, consequently, ever had very much to say about warfare. Richard Tuck's important research marks an exception in this field, but Tuck's work is marked by significant omissions. He defined Catholic scholasticism too narrowly, omitting the Franciscan followers
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Warfare, Christianity, and the Law of Nature Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Sarah Mortimer
Abstract: Early modern efforts to justify warfare entailed serious reflection on the relationship between Christianity and nature or natural law. Those working in a Thomist tradition could draw on a concept of natural law as an ethical system distinct from Christianity; others rejected that concept, working instead to show that warfare could form part of the duties of Christians. All sides recognized
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Across the Confessional Divide: Johannes Hoornbeeck, José de Acosta, and the Role of Force and Free Will in the Development of a Reformed Missiology Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Floris Verhaart
Abstract: This article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between Catholic and Protestant theories of mission by examining the influence of the Jesuit José de Acosta on the De conversione Indorum et gentilium (1669), one of the first comprehensive handbooks of Protestant missiology, written by Johannes Hoornbeeck. It is demonstrated that Acosta's Thomist emphasis on the
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Seventeenth-Century Scotism and the War Just on Both Sides Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Daniel Schwartz
Abstract: Can a war can be just on both sides? Within the Western just war tradition, Catholic theologians traditionally held wars on both sides to be logically impossible. This view went unchallenged until questioned by two seventeenth-century Irish Franciscan Scotists. These were Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil (Hugo Cavellus) and John Punch. In this paper I lay out the Scotist theological grounds that led them
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The Jewish Family, Forced Baptism, and Holy War in Early Modern Roman Scotism Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Ian Campbell
Abstract: Early modern Europeans organized important reflections on the nature of political society and the justice of warfare around their image of the American Indian. But Jewish parents and children, living in Europe at the mercy of Christian societies and states, also provided Europeans with the occasion to reflect on government and holy war. This article will describe the relevance of Christian
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Iberian Theories of Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Giuseppe Marcocci
Abstract: Starting from the Iberian reaction to Machiavelli's ideas about religion and war, this article compares and connects Spanish and Portuguese theories of empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Writings by Francisco de Vitoria, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Juan de Solórzano Pereira, as well as by less well-known thinkers, are used to trace the main legal and theological debates over
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Notices Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notices Morris D. Forkosch Prize The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,500) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2021: Ross Carroll, for Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, published by Princeton University Press. Eligible submissions
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The Linguistic Terror in France according to Jean Paulhan and Jean-Paul Sartre Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Jonathan Doering
Abstract: The literary critic and NRF editor Jean Paulhan devised a way of thinking about fluctuating historical and psychological attitudes toward language, organizing them into a dialectic of "Rhetoric" and "Terror." In this article, I focus on Paulhan and Sartre's response to the interwar crisis of Terror and explore Rhetoric and Terror as a heuristic in the intellectual history of France.
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"I am aware that this letter may be offensive": The Unapologetic Achievements of Ruth Barcan Marcus and Marjorie Glicksman Grene Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Jonathan Strassfeld
Abstract: This article presents a case study in the complex of pressures and attitudes that shaped the professional lives and intellectual legacies of twentieth-century American philosophers, examining the writings and careers of two of the discipline's pioneering women: Ruth Barcan Marcus and Marjorie Glicksman Grene. As members of the small cohort of women trained in philosophy during the first half
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Rethinking War, Nature, and Supernature in Early Modern Scholasticism: Introduction Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Ian Campbell
Abstract: The History of Political Thought is a discipline which is very closely aligned with the Anglophone liberal political tradition. It has not, consequently, ever had very much to say about warfare. Richard Tuck's important research marks an exception in this field, but Tuck's work is marked by significant omissions. He defined Catholic scholasticism too narrowly, omitting the Franciscan followers
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Warfare, Christianity, and the Law of Nature Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Sarah Mortimer
Abstract: Early modern efforts to justify warfare entailed serious reflection on the relationship between Christianity and nature or natural law. Those working in a Thomist tradition could draw on a concept of natural law as an ethical system distinct from Christianity; others rejected that concept, working instead to show that warfare could form part of the duties of Christians. All sides recognized
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Across the Confessional Divide: Johannes Hoornbeeck, José de Acosta, and the Role of Force and Free Will in the Development of a Reformed Missiology Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Floris Verhaart
Abstract: This article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between Catholic and Protestant theories of mission by examining the influence of the Jesuit José de Acosta on the De conversione Indorum et gentilium (1669), one of the first comprehensive handbooks of Protestant missiology, written by Johannes Hoornbeeck. It is demonstrated that Acosta's Thomist emphasis on the
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Seventeenth-Century Scotism and the War Just on Both Sides Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Daniel Schwartz
Abstract: Can a war can be just on both sides? Within the Western just war tradition, Catholic theologians traditionally held wars on both sides to be logically impossible. This view went unchallenged until questioned by two seventeenth-century Irish Franciscan Scotists. These were Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil (Hugo Cavellus) and John Punch. In this paper I lay out the Scotist theological grounds that led them
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The Jewish Family, Forced Baptism, and Holy War in Early Modern Roman Scotism Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Ian Campbell
Abstract: Early modern Europeans organized important reflections on the nature of political society and the justice of warfare around their image of the American Indian. But Jewish parents and children, living in Europe at the mercy of Christian societies and states, also provided Europeans with the occasion to reflect on government and holy war. This article will describe the relevance of Christian
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Iberian Theories of Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Giuseppe Marcocci
Abstract: Starting from the Iberian reaction to Machiavelli's ideas about religion and war, this article compares and connects Spanish and Portuguese theories of empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Writings by Francisco de Vitoria, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Juan de Solórzano Pereira, as well as by less well-known thinkers, are used to trace the main legal and theological debates over
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Notices Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-09-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notices Morris D. Forkosch Prize The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,500) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2021: Ross Carroll, for Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, published by Princeton University Press. Eligible submissions
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Liberality as a Fiscal Problem in Medieval and Renaissance Thought: A Genealogy from Aristotle's Tyrant to Machiavelli's Prince Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Giorgio Lizzul
Abstract: This article explores the legacy of Aristotle's advice for the preservation of tyrannies found in Politics Book 5, Chapter 11 on the formation of medieval and Renaissance fiscal literature. The tyrant's economic techniques for preserving his regime established commonplaces of fiscal governance in the medieval commentary and mirrors-for-princes tradition. Authors' engagement with the legacy
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Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's Politics, and a Previously Unknown Oxford Disputation Journal of the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Daniel Blank
Abstract: This article presents evidence of a previously unknown seventeenth-century disputation at the University of Oxford on the controversial subject of theatrical performance. The evidence appears in the student notebook of Edmund Leigh, who received his BA from Brasenose College in 1604, and who was a protégé of the renowned scholar and theologian John Rainolds. Leigh's notes, which are drawn