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Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500–1800 History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Ted McCormick
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Looking beyond women’s feminist thought in history History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Geertje J. Bol
Historians of political thought have done important and insightful work on women’s history of political thought. This scholarship has proliferated since the mid to late twentieth century and has fo...
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The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Arie M. Dubnov
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Time, history, and political thought History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Tom Pye
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A reformation to end the revolution: Germaine de Staël and the struggle for republican mores under directory France History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Adela Halo
Between 1797 and 1798, Germaine de Staël argued that France needed a reformation to end the Revolution, proposing the adoption Protestantism as a religion of state. This proposal has been explained...
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Protestantism, revolution and Scottish political thought: the European context, 1637-1651 History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Alasdair Raffe
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Stuart Elden
This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in France. It looks at the 1951 election of a successor to Étienne Gilson at the Collège d...
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Secularised Augustinianism: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 James Harris
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Historicizing historicism: Reinhart Koselleck and the periodization of modernity History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Fernando Esposito
Starting from J. Fabian’s critique of anthropology and its study of the ‘primitive’ Other, Fernando Esposito discusses R. Koselleck’s work as a critique of historical practice, not least the practi...
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Max Weber’s interpretive sociology of law History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Hubert Treiber
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Natural contra human sciences: the conflict between nomothetic and idiographic sciences, with special reference to S. J. Boëthius History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Peter Davidsen
This article tackles issues central to most academic disciplines, including scientific boundary demarcation, the battle of the faculties, the theory of science, and the conflict between nomothetic ...
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Falsifying history: Voltaire’s lost reply to David Boullier on Pascal and Locke History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 David Wootton
This article argues that Voltaire’s supposed letter to ’s Gravesande of 1741 was written for publication after ’s Gravesande’s death. It is thus Voltaire’s reply to David Boullier’s critique of the...
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Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Alex Middleton
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Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Mariano Croce
German lawyer and political scientist Karl Loewenstein is generally regarded as the originator of the militant democracy paradigm. In a series of articles in the mid and late 1930s, he argued that ...
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Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Anna Marisa Schön
In much extant scholarship, Dante is either misused as the prophet of the modern Italian nation-state or dismissed as a naive imperialist. This paper steers clear of both these characterizations an...
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The French and Spanish monarchies in the embassy writings of Machiavelli and Guicciardini History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Jean-Marc Rivière
Between 1500 and 1513, Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini elaborated in their writings a crossed portrait of the French and Spanish monarchies, based on their first diplomatic missions. It appe...
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Excessive self-esteem, and the social consequences of Mandeville’s analysis: a comment on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Alexandra Chadwick
This contribution to a roundtable on Robin Douglass's Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy and Sociability (Princeton University Press, 2023) focuses on two themes raised in the book. First, Mandev...
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Menasseh ben-Israel and reason of state: the intersection of ideas and politics in the petitions to re-settle Iberian Jewry (1645–1655) History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Josiah Rotenberg
Menasseh ben-Israel petitioned to re-admit Jews to England in 1655. Historians have been aware that Menasseh utilized the ideas employed by Simone Luzzatto in Luzzatto’s efforts to avoid the expuls...
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Zombies un-slayed: Malthusian Myopia in Lapland History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Lasse Andersen
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The enlightenment and original sin History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Ashley Walsh
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Modern Times: A construction manual History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Achim Landwehr
This ‘construction manual’ tries to deal with the paradoxes inherent in so many attempts to define modernity: the try to construct themselves a foundation as a starting point of their own developme...
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Introduction to a Review Symposium on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Ross Carroll
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Sattelzeit’: the invention of ‘premodern history’ in the 1970s History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Julia Angster
In her historicisation of the concept of the ‘Sattelzeit,’ Julia Angster argues that the term does not represent a meaningful definition of a specific historical epoch. Instead, it serves as source...
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‘Ik bün all hier (I’m already here)’: modern pre-modernity or premodern modernity? History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Anja Rathmann-Lutz
This medievalist perspective reflects on the paradoxical relationship between Modernity and the Middle Ages, based on the author’s research into temporalities in the central Middle Ages. When deali...
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Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable: a reply History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Robin Douglass
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Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon
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The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Anta Claudio Giulio
Jacques Delors (1925–2023) was the most influential Europeanist of our time. The close relationship between ideas and pragmatism characterized his social, cultural, and political commitment from hi...
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Understanding sociability through Mandevillean pride: comments on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Antong Liu
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Emer de Vattel in context: the moral philosophical foundations of a natural law for states History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Henri Otsing
In line with its influence, Emer de Vattel’s Le droit des gens (1757) is most often conceptualised in terms of far-reaching political intentions and epochal intellectual developments. However, the ...
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Carl Schmitt as a reader of Juan Donoso Cortés: the concept of dictatorship as counterrevolution from 1848 to 1921 History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Dimitra Mareta
This essay proposes an examination of Carl Schmitt’s thought by placing at its core the influence from Juan Donoso Cortés. Donoso Cortés has been largely forgotten over the centuries, and his influ...
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A ‘divine lawgiver’ for the leviathan? The commonwealth by institution and the case of the prudent prophet History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Amy Chandran
Recent scholarship has cast welcome light on the political relevance of Hobbes’s extensive treatment of theology and sacred history. Building on extant contributions, this article argues that God’s...
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What is an ‘open society’? Bergson, Strauss, Popper, and Deleuze History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Martyn Hammersley
This paper examines the different interpretations of the distinction between closed and open societies put forward by Henri Bergson, Leo Strauss, Karl Popper, and Gilles Deleuze. These vary both in...
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Reply to my critics History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Maurizio Viroli
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Apostles of inequality: rural poverty, political economy, and the economist, 1760–1860 History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 James Stafford
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Poverty research or research poverty? The interaction between civil society researchers and scientists in postwar Belgium History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Els Minne, Kaat Wils
Civil society initiatives played a key role in the increasing academic focus on poverty in mid-1960s Europe. The first generation of academic poverty researchers were able to draw on the expertise ...
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Histories of everyday life: the making of popular social history in Britain, 1918–1979 History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Rosie Germain
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Mikko Immanen
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Raphael Ebgi
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 William J. Bulman
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732) History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Damian Shaw, Matthew Gibson
One of the earliest refutations of the Visum et Repertum (1732) by Johann Flückinger was from Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena, who attac...
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A prince for the Renaissance: Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471) and the representation of Alfonso the Magnanimous (1396–1458) in early modern Europe History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Gema Belia Capilla Aledón
European powers – mainly Spanish and Italian – took the figure of Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon (1416–1458), into great consideration as the example of the new modern prince. His image wa...
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Prophetic times. Visions of emancipation in the history of Italy History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Stefano U. Baldassarri
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Introduction to a review symposium on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Stefano U. Baldassarri
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Monarchy, universalism, imperialism in Giovanni Botero’s Relazioni universali History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Blythe Alice Raviola
How did the idea of monarchy develop in Giovanni Botero’s thinking? How did he use it in his largest work, Relazioni universali (1st edition 1591)? How did he redefine it at the beginning of the se...
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Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Fernanda Gallo
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Eva Piirimäe on Herder’s political thought History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Andrew Walker
Richard Whatmore advised that an abstract would not be necessary, but I am happy to offer one. If you wish to include one, please set and format the following as appropriate: Eva Piirimä e's Herder...
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Thinking smaller: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s Belief in Intuition History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Paulina Ochoa Espejo
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Adam Ferguson’s later writings: new letters and an essay on the French revolution History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Mark G. Spencer
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Raymond Aron’s concept of liberty History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Christopher Adair-Toteff
Raymond Aron is well-known for a number of ideas but one of his most cherished has largely gone unnoticed. This is his concept of liberty. While he did not dedicate a particular volume or write man...
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Politico vivere in Niccolò Machiavelli and Donato Giannotti: Monarchy, Republicanism and Mixed Government in Florence History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Lucinda M. C. Byatt
The tensions between monarchy and republicanism are a dominant feature of Machiavelli’s political works, and both the so-called ‘monarchical’ work, The Prince, and the more overtly republican Disco...
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Tacistist and counter-Tacitist rhetoric in Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Zofia Żółtek
This article discusses the use of some Tacitean key terms and techniques by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon in his History of the Rebellion, on the English Civil War, and in his autobiographical acc...
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Exploring the path not taken: introduction to the symposium on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief in Intuition History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Michael L. Frazer
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The necessity of philosophical anthropology: on Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief in Intuition History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Kevin Duong
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The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Sharon R. Krause
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The relation between the ‘City’ and the ‘Soul’, and the role of small-scale exemplars within the city: a response to the symposium on The Belief in Intuition History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Adriana Alfaro Altamirano
In her response, Alfaro fleshes out two main questions that come out from her book The Belief in Intuition. First, what is the relation between Henri Bergson and Max Scheler's personalist anthropol...
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Redescribing the Machiavellian prince. The idea of monarchy in Giovani Botero’s Della Ragion di Stato (1589) History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Silvina Paula Vidal
Botero’s Della Ragion di Stato has a monarchical character that has been overlooked or taken for granted. This is due to the successful reception of the reason of state formula, which justifies any...
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The problem of toleration: Tacitus, Foucault and governmentality History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Andrea di Carlo
This article proposes a novel interpretation of Montaigne’s and Bayle’s comments on Tacitus. My contention is that their Tacitism is a Foucauldian discourse on toleration. Toleration is an example ...
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The return of the king’s two bodies: liberal arguments for the moderating powers of monarchy in post-revolutionary France and Portugal History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Oscar Ferreira
Arguments analogous to those found in the late medieval theory of the king’s two bodies, popularized by Ernst Kantorowicz, were resurrected in early nineteenth-century constitutional theories of th...
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Plus ça change: continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Glenn A. Steinberg
The constitutional monarchy of present-day Britain hardly seems the same sort of institution as fourteenth-century feudal kingdoms, but Dante’s Monarchia (c. 1313) and Walter Bagehot’s The English ...
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Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620) History of European Ideas (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 María Concepción Gutiérrez Redondo
Juan de Vera’s El Enbaxador (1620) was one of the main treatises on the role of the ambassador in Early Modern Europe and the first one published in Spanish. At the time, Spain was no exception to ...