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Schelling's late philosophy in confrontation with Hegel History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Velimir Stojkovski
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Historiography in a mock-heroic key: ‘in which Natasha Wheatley visits the late Hapsburg empire and invents a genre’ History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nathaniel Berman
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Catharine Macaulay political writings History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rachel Hammersley
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Response to comments: Of Rule and Office: Plato’s ideas of the political History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Melissa Lane
This article replies to five critical comments (along with a substantive introduction) of the monograph by Melissa Lane, Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political, which was published by P...
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Voltaire: from Newtonianism to Spinozism History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-07 David Wootton
The question of Voltaire’s belief in (or lack of belief in) God is a vexed one. René Pomeau’s classic study of 1956 argued that Voltaire believed in a God who would punish and reward in the next li...
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Out of Austria: Natasha Wheatley’s Staatenlehre History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Charles S. Maier
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Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Eugene Heath
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Symposium on Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-06 John Dunn
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Modernity here and there, a response to comments on The Life and Death of States History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Natasha Wheatley
This text responds to the review forum on The Life and Death of States featuring Clara Maier, Kathryn Ciancia, Charles Maier, and Nathaniel Berman. It considers the place of Central Europe and the ...
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The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley’s The life and death of states History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Clara Maier
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What is constitutional in Platonic ‘constitutional rule’? On Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Matthew Landauer
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Two cheers for Anarchia: Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Matt Simonton
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Accountability in Politics and Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Mark Philp
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Thinking from here: reflections on Natasha Wheatley’s The Life and Death of States History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kathryn Ciancia
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Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Idea of the Political as contribution to legal philosophy History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
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Symposium on Natasha Wheatley’s The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Anne Schult
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Searching for ‘Moderate Enlightenment’: From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Nicholas Mithen
The meaning of ‘moderate enlightenment’ has been monopolised by Jonathan Israel. In this guise, ‘moderate enlightenment’ is built atop a compromise between authority and innovation, between reason ...
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The sceptre of moderation: Montlosier and the emergence of the modern right in the French counter-revolution History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Nicolai von Eggers
Intellectual historians have tended to focus on the most radical intellectuals of the counter-revolution such as Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald, but the counter-revolution was an intellectua...
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The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann* History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Pauls Daija
Gustav von Bergmann (1749–1814) was a Lutheran pastor in Livland, one of the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire. Being interested in Enlightenment ideas, he published a string of literary, hist...
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Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Damien Tricoire
Since the 1990s, there has been a growing tendency to interpret Diderot as a radical who first put into question absolutism in the Encyclopédie and then became a fierce opponent of any kind of ‘des...
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Moderation in early eighteenth-century English Dissent: Philip Doddridge and his academy curriculum History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Robert Strivens
‘Moderation’ in late seventeenth-century Britain indicated, at least in religious circles, an attitude of benevolence and restraint towards those who differed on questions not essential to the Chri...
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Correction History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-21
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Moderation in the Scottish Enlightenment: the case of Robert Wallace History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Elad Carmel
Robert Wallace (1697–1771) was a leading minister of the Church of Scotland, but he remains a largely overlooked figure in the literature. Nevertheless, his participation in philosophical and theol...
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Sieyès’s idea of constituent power: a moderate and illiberal idea of sovereignty in the French revolution History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Carlos Pérez-Crespo
Moderation and liberalism are different and in some cases antagonistic concepts. In recent years, the view that Sieyès’s idea of constituent power is a moderate and liberal rendering of sovereignty...
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Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Daniel M. Herskowitz
This study argues that the bond between ‘secularization’ and ‘de-legitimation’ is not only borne out in debates over grand historical narratives relating to the status of modernity, as argued by Ha...
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Religion and the post-revolutionary mind: idéologues, Catholic traditionalists, and liberals in France History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Matthijs Lok
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Lord Lothian and the rediscovery of The Federalist History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Anta Claudio Giulio
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Adam Smith on the public provision of education History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-09 J. L. Z. Rauwald
Although Adam Smith’s thoughts on education have attracted significant scholarly attention, his ideas on how the primary education of children should be funded has been relatively neglected. I re-e...
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A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Sophie Scott-Brown
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The opening of the protestant mind: how Anglo-American Protestants embraced religious liberty History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Andrew R. Murphy
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Liberalism, the happy exception History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Aurelian Craiutu
This essay reviews the main themes and ideas of a couple of recent books on liberalism written by two intellectual historians, Alan S. Kahan and Nathaniel Wolloch.Their books shed fresh light on th...
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The logic of the fetish in the present History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jon Bialecki
Building on Pietz’s speculation about the construction of a “history of the fetish’ that might be related to, yet stand apart from the fetish as a historical construct, this paper asks if there mig...
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The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Stuart White
Sophie Scott-Brown’s intellectual biography of Colin Ward does a superb job of putting Ward’s anarchism in its historical and political context. In so doing Scott-Brown arguably draws attention to ...
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Thinkers, writers and kinds of intellectual biographies: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Melanie Nolan
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Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023) History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Matthew S. Adams
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Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Christopher Adair-Toteff
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Introduction to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (Routledge, 2022) History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Matthew S. Adams
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Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Harvey Chisick
This article argues that what was understood as democracy in the eighteenth century differs fundamentally from modern democracy. While modern democratic states take locally born or naturalized pers...
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The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Eva Helene Odzuck
Hobbes’s theory of authorisation poses numerous puzzles to scholars. The weightiest of these conundrums is a supposed contradiction between chapter 17 of Leviathan, that calls for unconditional sub...
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Sociable individualism: Christian Jakob Kraus and the Königsberg Enlightenment History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Ingrid Schreiber
Christian Jakob Kraus (1753–1807), political economist and Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Königsberg, has long been neglected by historians, dismissed as a translator, a tea...
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Leo Strauss: a political realist? History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Alberto Ghibellini
Leo Strauss's approach to politics may indeed be regarded as realist. Some traits of his thought, however, seem to align him to an opposite, idealist tendency. Among these are Strauss's criticism o...
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Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 1800 History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Michael Wintle
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Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Rosie Germain
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‘The faith of man in himself:’ locating Feuerbach in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Charles Duke
Though it is acknowledged that Nietzsche read Ludwig Feuerbach, little attention has been given to the significance of Feuerbach’s anthropological re-imagination of religion for the trajectory of N...
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The opacity of a system T.R. Malthus and the population in principle History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jacopo Bonasera
This contribution analyses the scientific and political meaning of the concept of ‘population’ within Thomas Robert Malthus’ thought. It is here argued that by encapsulating ‘population’ in a scien...
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Harriet Taylor Mill History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-12 David Stack
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Correction History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-12-20
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Mill before liberalism (I)* History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Peter Ghosh
Current understanding of Mill as a founding father of liberalism is a Cold War creation. Discarding this conception opens the way to a general reassessment of his thought: who was the historical Mi...
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Introduction – Symposium on William Pietz’s The Problem of the Fetish History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Richard Baxstrom
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Slavery and the fetish History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Miranda Spieler
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The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Gabor Istvan Biro
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Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Esben Korsgaard Rasmussen
This article traces Hobbes’s account of ‘exemplarity’ from his early writings to Leviathan. It argues that, by tracking Hobbes’s changing views on exemplarity, we get a better grasp on how he const...
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Human Empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Vera Keller
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J. L. Austin: philosopher and D-Day intelligence officer History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Guy Longworth
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Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Suman Seth
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What the fetish does to the history of art History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Anne Lafont
The article tries to make the point that William Pietz’s contributions were the first to make a history of the term based on his longue durée and of the matricial embedding of the conceptual and th...
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Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-16 R. J. W. Mills
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On Pietz doing history History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tomoko Masuzawa
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Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Abigail L. Swingen
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Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 History of European Ideas Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Dave Hitchcock
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2023)