The European Legacy

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    Fanaticism: A Political Philosophical History.Richard Avramenko - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):368-372.
    Watching Quentin Tarantino films is uncomfortable. They are mostly known for the all-too-real depictions of violence. The poster for his early film, Reservoir Dogs, has the main characters, all gan...
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    Liberal Democracy Critiqued and Affirmed.Joseph C. Bertolini - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):355-367.
    In Liberalism in Dark Times, an important, impressive and well documented book, Joshua Cherniss, associate professor of government at Georgetown University, focuses on an aspect of liberal theory t...
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    Mary Astell on Moderation: The Case of Occasional Conformity.Geertje Bol - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):294-312.
    In 1704, Mary Astell, known by many scholars as the “first English feminist,” published Moderation Truly Stated, her contribution to the national debate over “occasional conformity.” This was the practice of periodic participation in the sacraments of the Church of England—above all, taking communion—in order to become eligible for public office. This practice was defended as an exercise of the virtue of “moderation,” viewed as the opposite of zeal and associated with politeness and reasonableness. In this article I recover Astell’s (...)
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    Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis.Aurelian Craiutu - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):372-374.
    Extremism has been a constant presence and threat to the stability of the world in the last few decades. We know how destructive extremist organizations and ideologies can be, but when pressed to d...
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  5. Rediscovering Moderation at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century.Aurelian Craiutu - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):229-235.
    This article argues that moderation is a difficult, complex, and elusive concept that challenges our political imagination. It has several faces—epistemological, moral, constitutional, political and religious—and forms a rich intellectual tradition that has yet to be explored in all its complexity. Moderation is “the silken string that runs through the pearl-chain of all virtues” (Joseph Hall). As such, it ought to be examined not only as a virtue but also as a social practice, an intellectual sensibility, a way of life, (...)
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    Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer Till the Present.Wayne Cristaudo - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):417-419.
    Almost two years ago I reviewed The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals by Harry Redner in these pages; Redner, in turn, around much the same time had reviewed a book by Beibei Guan and myself...
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  7. Is There Really‘Nothing Unnatural in Nature’?Oren Harman - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):389-393.
    This book should have been called “The Penis Book.” Sure, there are a few clitorises here and there, a few vaginas, but all in all, it’s about penises. Giant penises and tiny penises, singing penis...
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    Was Spinoza a Pagan?Grant N. Havers - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):394-399.
    Spinoza once remarked in a letter to his friend Hugo Boxel: “To me the authority of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates is not worth much.”1 The clarity of this statement has not deterred even experienc...
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    An Efficient “Propagandistic Instrument of Mobilisation”.Thomas Klikauer - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):400-404.
    Over the past few years, much has been written about Germany’s Nazis and about ideology, but not too much has been published on Nazi ideology. Norwegian author Carl Müller Frøland has divided his s...
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    Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment.Nicholas Mithen - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):274-293.
    This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw this out it reconstructs an “encounter” between two citizens of the scholarly Republic of Letters in the years around 1700—Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Jean Le Clerc—and the concept of moderation each maintained. It proposes that the former maintained an ideal of moderation which was “hard” principally about self-regulation, while the latter maintained an ideal of moderation which was “soft” and principally about (religious) toleration. It (...)
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    Thinking Like a Radical: Social Democracy, Moderation, and Anti-Radicalism.Pedro Góis Moreira - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):330-347.
    The concepts of “radicalism” and “extremism” have been the focus of increasing scholarly attention in recent years, but, surprisingly, there has not been the same kind of effort to specify their opposites, such as the concept of “moderation.” In this article I argue that because “radicalism” and “extremism” have been defined in generally negative terms, we may deepen and refine our understanding of moderation once we are equipped with a more neutral conception of radicalism. Accordingly, I propose a new approach (...)
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    Moderation, Toleration, and Revolution: William Penn’s Perswasive in Context.Andrew R. Murphy - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):255-273.
    In this article, I explore the relationship between moderation and toleration in early modern England by focusing on William Penn’s 1685 A Perswasive to Moderation. This work, published by Penn in support of James II’s campaign to implement toleration in England by royal decree, explicitly linked moderation and the campaign for liberty of conscience in which Penn had participated for nearly two decades, in both England and America. More broadly, I show how Penn’s Perswasive entered into an ongoing debate over (...)
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    Moderation as Government: Montesquieu and the Divisibility of Power.Thomas Osborne - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):313-329.
    The principle of moderation can be regarded as an ethical principle of virtue or as a principle of government. On the basis of the former, moderation has a personal, ethical sense—not to go towards extremes. The latter model is more generalized and impersonal: moderation as the limitation of power by power. Both conceptions actually meet, though with the latter model more salient, in the work of Montesquieu. This article outlines Montesquieu’s view of moderation emphasizing the extent to which this view (...)
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    Israelpolitik: German–Israeli Relations, 1949–1969.Gesine Palmer - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):424-425.
    “We can look back on what we have achieved and, without exaggerating, call it a ‘miracle’.” This quote is Angela Merkel’s second famous remark on Israel (the most famous being that Israel’s securit...
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    Finding Moderation in Plato’s Republic.Laura Rabinowitz - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):236-254.
    This article examines Plato’s understanding of moderation. I begin with a brief discussion of Plato’s Charmides, the dialogue in which Socrates asks, “What is moderation?” in order to frame a detailed treatment of key passages in Plato’s Republic where we find a definitive answer. I show the progress of the Republic to be an intentional development on Plato’s part, moving readers from a conventional understanding of moderation as mastery to a more compelling ideal: moderation as a harmony of the city (...)
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    Taste: A Book of Small Bites.Hans J. Rindisbacher - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):426-428.
    This slim volume of eclectic observations on the world of taste opens with an “Aperitif,” serves the five basic tastes in separate dishes, beginning with “Sweet,” followed by “Sour,” “Salty,” “Bitt...
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    Field of Battle.Karl W. Schweizer - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):430-432.
    This work represents a linguistic excursion into the “spatial conflict” field—defined here as a “theatre of war” or more precisely “technocratic security model” that intersects with the “lives of i...
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    Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion.Ethan Shagan - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):432-434.
    This is an unusual book, one that I admit to having had difficulty understanding. Part of my difficulty no doubt stems from the fact that Beyond Heaven and Earth is far outside my disciplinary expe...
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    Gerhard Richter: Painting after the Subject of History.Lora Sigler - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):434-435.
    Benjamin Buchloh’s two interviews with Gerhard Richter, which bookend this slim volume, are fascinating glimpses into the artist’s interior life, and thus rewarding. Unfortunately, jargon and proli...
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    Afterword: Moderation in an Age of Crisis.Alexander Smith - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):348-354.
    It is the Right that has inherited the ambitious modernist urge to destroy and innovate in the name of a universal project. Through the war in Iraq through the unrequited desire to dismantle public...
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