History of European Ideas

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  1. Nationalism and Northern Ireland: A Rejoinder to Ian McBride on “Ethnicity and Conflict".Richard Bourke - 2023 - History of European Ideas 50:1–19.
    The concept of ‘Ethnicity’ still enjoys some currency in the historical and social science literature. However, the cogency of the idea remains disputed. First coming to prominence in the 1980s, the word is often used to depict the character of social relations in the context of conflicts over sovereignty. The case of Northern Ireland presents a paradigmatic example. This article is a rejoinder to Ian McBride’s contention that my scepticism about the notion lacks justification. With reference to disputes over the (...)
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    Reviewing women’s philosophical works during the French revolution: the case of P.-L. Roederer.Sandrine Bergès - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1332-1344.
    This paper looks at selected reviews of women’s philosophical (and literary) works by Revolutionary author and politician Pierre-Louis Roederer. This study occasions the following remarks. Women’s works, when they raised political radical and sometimes feminist agendas were not only read and reviewed, but considered part of the general Revolutionary effort to relieve social and political inequalities. Secondly Roederer appears, from these reviews, as committed to convincing the French intellectual community that works by women ought to be taken as seriously as (...)
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    Myth, sacrifice, and the critique of capitalism in dialectic of enlightenment.Charles H. Clavey - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1268-1285.
    Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno famously argued that ‘myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.’ Although much scholarship has analyzed and built upon Horkheimer and Adorno’s insight, it has often conflated myth with another concept: epic. By closely reading Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, this article disentangles the two concepts and elucidates key features of myth. Sacrifice, it argues, stood at the centre of myth, connecting and organizing its other dimensions. Next, the article reconstructs the lineage (...)
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    Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century.Carmen Lea Dege & Tae-Yeoun Keum - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1199-1203.
    In 1930, the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg outlined his vision for a ‘new and yet old Bloodmyth’ of the Aryan race.1 His Myth of the Twentieth Century would go on to be a touchstone text of Nazis...
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  5. Symposium on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules.Hugo Drochon - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1302-1303.
    From Brexit to Trump, Jan-Werner Müller’s 2016 essay What is Populism? has defined our historical moment.1 Famously identifying populism as both anti-elitism and anti-pluralism, Müller has provided...
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    The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France.Kevin Duong - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1204-1219.
    No concept attracted as much controversy, or muddled ideological identifications so thoroughly, as ‘myth’ in interwar France. By the late 1930s, ‘la mythomanie’ was drawing systematic attention from existentialists, Surrealists, ethnologists, sociologists, and nascent fascist movements. This essay reconsiders this polemical and misunderstood moment in interwar thought. It focuses on the intellectuals most central to its notoriety: the members of the Collège de sociologie and their fascination with Georges Sorel. Though interwar mythomania has long been treated as an antiparliamentary cultural (...)
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    The idea of the common good in the young Marx and nonutilitarian consequentialism.Vasil Gluchman - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1345-1358.
    Rodney G. Peffer argues that Karl Marx cannot be considered a utilitarian, a consequentialist, or a nonutilitarian consequentialist. Based on ethics of social consequences as one of the versions of nonutilitarian consequentialism, the author examines Marx’s early journalistic articles concerning the common good published mainly in the Rheinische Zeitung. The author verifies the hypothesis that Marx was a nonutilitarian consequentialist in the given period with regard to the common good. By examining Marx’s views on freedom of the press and censorship, (...)
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    Claude Lefort: the myth of the One.Nicole Hochner - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1252-1267.
    A growing interest in Claude Lefort is bringing to light his radical insights on modern democracy, totalitarianism, and human rights. While the notion perhaps most closely associated with Lefort is that of ‘the empty place of power,’ this article offers a reading of Lefort from a unique angle: his concept of the myth of the One. I demonstrate that to Lefort, the phantasmagorical appeal of the One – the desire for harmony, unity and stability – is the force that continually (...)
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    Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end.Pini Ifergan - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1236-1251.
    This paper offers an account of Hans Blumenberg’s unique approach to myth. §1 shows that Blumenberg’s thought on myth, like his thought on metaphor, has been widely misconstrued. §2 argues that Blumenberg’s account of myth should be seen as part of the discussion of non-conceptuality. It explains that Blumenberg, invoking conceptuality’s epistemic limitations, challenges modern philosophy’s denigration of non-conceptuality. Blumenberg argues that conceptuality should not be understood in terms of mathematical-scientific rationality, but more broadly, and claims that myth and metaphor (...)
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    The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth.Adam Kjellgren - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1286-1301.
    In her feminist classic The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir refers to ‘the myth of Woman’ to denote images of womanhood that rest upon and reinforce beliefs in a static, feminine essence. This article aims to understand what makes this myth mythical. The author argues that Beauvoir employs the term ‘myth’ to establish a parallel between the way in which modern men relate to women and the worldview of so-called primitives – who she portrays as ruled by a specific, (...)
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    Sacrifice and the limits of sovereignty 1589–1613.Sarah Mortimer - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1302-1315.
    Although sovereign power is often defined as transcending legal and religious norms, the work of historians like Prodi and Agamben has drawn our attention to the ways in which modern accounts of sovereignty depend fundamentally upon the fusion and transformation of these norms. In Latin Christendom, this process was enabled by the juridical quality of ecclesiastical authority, its expression through laws similar in form and structure to those of civil power. There was, however, an important strand of Catholic thinking from (...)
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  12. Neither dominant nor dominated. The decolonial federalism of Albert Camus.Tommaso Visone - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1359-1374.
    Albert Camus has been at the centre of a long and bitter controversy for his positions on the Algerian war. Accused of being a colonialist, marked by Eurocentrism and/or a de facto supporter of imperialism, he in fact joined the struggle for decolonization from his earliest steps in politics, untethering it, however, from any nationalist perspective. This essay delineates the formation of Camusian position on the Algerian crisis, its turning points and the path followed in this regard from the late (...)
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    The Japanese philosophy of myth during the early Shōwa era.Fernando Wirtz - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1220-1235.
    In this article, I seek to present some examples of the philosophy of myth in Japan during the early Shōwa era (1926–1945), especially in works by Tanabe Hajime, Kihira Tadayoshi, Isobe Tadamasa, Kōsaka Masaaki and Miki Kiyoshi. While the concept of myth is closely linked to the question of nationality, I intend to show that the philosophical concept of myth is also related to a fundamental ambiguity that prevents an absolutisation of myth and offers specific conceptual tools for a critique (...)
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    ‘The Greeks Call It _Horme_ ’: Hobbes’ anti-Aristotelian account of human action.Erfan Xia - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (8):1316-1331.
    This essay reads Hobbes’ account of human action against Aristotle’s accounts of animal motion and human action, thus offering a new perspective for understanding Hobbes’ account and illuminating a neglected aspect of Hobbes’ relationship to Aristotle. I argue that the basic structure of Hobbes’ account is indebted to Aristotle’s account of animal motion, except that Hobbes purges the teleological elements from his predecessor and presents a picture that is mechanistic and explicitly deterministic. Moreover, while Aristotle introduces ‘deliberation’ as a way (...)
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    Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen.Christopher Adair-Toteff - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1120-1133.
    Hans Kelsen has recently been praised as a defender of democracy but that defense has a long history of being criticized. Kelsen’s most famous critic was Carl Schmitt and commentators have often re...
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    Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein through the meanders of scientific pacifism.Claudio Giulio Anta - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1134-1143.
    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) had very different cultural backgrounds and personalities. At the same time, they were ideally united in their tenacious battle for peac...
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    The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom.Caroline Ashcroft - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1144-1160.
    1. The question of technology’s relation to politics was central to the work of many influential Cold War political thinkers. This paper identifies an overlapping critique of technology in the soci...
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    Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion, by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £35. [REVIEW]Antony Black - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1179-1182.
    This book examines and seeks to explain the rise of Western Christianity from the beginning to the fourteenth century. Heather begins by arguing that ‘Christendom’ as we know it would never have co...
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    The plight of the exception: why Carl Schmitt bid farewell to Hobbes.Mariano Croce & Andrea Salvatore - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1105-1119.
    1. Carl Schmitt is credited with being the initiator of exceptionalist decisionism – a political paradigm that advocates an unbounded executive when the state community is faced with extreme crises...
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    Derrida and history: a failed approach Haunting history: for a deconstructive approach to the past, by Ethan Kleinberg, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2017, 208 pp., $26.00 (Paperback), Hardcover ISBN: 9781503602373. [REVIEW]Mihail Evans - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1183-1194.
    The subtitle of Kleinberg’s Haunting History proposes a ‘deconstructive approach’ to Derrida and history. This review essay poses two questions which seek to establish what this could be. First, wh...
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    Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty.Jiani Fan - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1085-1104.
    1. In an unpublished fragment, Nietzsche makes an enigmatic observation: ‘Pascal saw in two forms, in Epictetus and Montaigne, his real tempter, against whom he had to defend his Christianity again...
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    Conservative thinkers: from all souls college Oxford Conservative thinkers: from all souls college Oxford, by Rupert Davenport-Hines, Woodbridge (Suffolk), Boydell Press, 2022, vii-244 pp., £75, ISBN 978-1-78327-745-2. [REVIEW]Mark Garnett - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1196-1198.
    There are few accolades in modern British intellectual life to match the award of a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. Numbering little more than a hundred at any time, recipients of these co...
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    Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism, by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 366pp., £74 (hardcover), ISBN 1316516466. [REVIEW]Stephen Gaukroger - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1195-1196.
    The Aristotelian Schools, complains John Webster in his 1654 Experimental Philosophy, wanted ‘to open the cabinet of Natures rich treasure, without labour and pains, experiments and operations, try...
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    An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy.Mauro Lenci - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1067-1084.
    In 1790, Edmund Burke was among the first to brand the French representative government as democracy.1 Revolutionary France was generating the spectre of ancient Greece and the majority of revoluti...
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    An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history.Renzhi Li - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (7):1161-1178.
    After more than half a century, Isaiah Berlin’s resolution to abandon analytic philosophy continues to draw much attention from students of his life and thought. Berlin had, on several occasions, v...
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    Lord Bolingbroke’s history of British foreign policy, 1492–1753.Doohwan Ahn - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):972-994.
    Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was the mastermind behind the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, and a lifelong rival of Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. He is also known for his political use of history based on the saying of Dionysius of Halicarnassus: ‘history is a philosophy teaching by examples’. While much scholarly attention has been paid to Bolingbroke’s historical criticism of Walpole’s Whig oligarchy, his discussion of European international history (...)
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    Adam Ferguson on true religion, science, and moral progress.Rudmer Bijlsma - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):1014-1036.
    This paper affirms the central role of religion in Adam Ferguson's practical thought by offering a new reading of his view on the interrelations between true religion, science, moral progress, and immortality. Fergusonian true religion, it is shown, originates in the understanding of wise, benevolent Providence which the physical and moral sciences offer when they become comprehensive. This understanding, in turn, grounds a neo-Stoic religious ethic. Having true religion then means: knowing the providential order, and virtuously acting upon a proper (...)
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    Hobbes on the power to punish.Mariana Kuhn de Oliveira - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):959-971.
    Hobbes’s account of the sovereign’s right to punish in Leviathan has led to a longstanding interpretive dispute. The debate is prompted by the fact that, prima facie, Hobbes makes two inconsistent claims: subjects (i) authorize all the acts of the sovereign, and are hence authors of their own punishment, yet (ii) have the liberty to resist such punishment. I argue that attending to Hobbes’s surprisingly neglected account of power yields a novel interpretation of his theory of punishment. Hobbes, it turns (...)
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    On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law.Dan Edelstein & Benjamin Straumann - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):1037-1060.
    In this article, we discuss Greek and Roman conceptions of liberty. The supposedly ‘neo-Roman’ view of liberty as non-domination is really derived from negative Greek models, we argue, while Roman authors devised an alternative understanding of liberty that rested on the equality of legal rights. In this ‘paleo-Roman’ model, as long as the law was the same for all, you were free; whether or not you participated in making the law was not a constitutive feature of liberty. In essence, this (...)
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    Straddling the Imperial Meridian: Warren Hastings as an observer of change in British India.Joshua Ehrlich - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):995-1013.
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are now seen as a moment when the ‘second’ British Empire arose from the ruins of the ‘first’ one. One witness to, and participant in, the convulsions of the age was Warren Hastings (1732–1818), the first governor-general of Bengal. Hastings’ career in India, his trial in parliament, and his imperial afterlife all have received fulsome attention. Yet his retirement years have been overlooked, owing to the misperception that they were uneventful. This article introduces (...)
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    The leviathan and the chimera: Gian Vincenzo Gravina’s Hobbesianism and its limits.Nathaniel K. Gilmore - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):926-941.
    In his political thought, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy’s premier jurist, Gian Vincenzo Gravina, adopted a Hobbesian state of nature, a Hobbesian social contract, and a Hobbesian idea of law as collective will; he fused these ideas with the Roman legal tradition, a tradition that he trained in and later ordered when he wrote his masterpiece, the Three Books on the Origins of the Civil Law. But Gravina was more than a Roman Hobbesian. While he held a Hobbesian view of political (...)
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    Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation.Kajo Kubala - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):942-958.
    The paper examines Thomas Hobbes’s theory of the state and representation in light of the historical development of the idea of the people as a corporation and its use in late-medieval and early-modern theories of resistance. Consequently, it is argued that Hobbes’s use of a corporate metaphor for the state embodied a rejection of the ius gentium reading of the people as a corporate body that legitimised the right of resistance to the sovereign power. By incorporating the state, not the (...)
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    ‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought.Nayeli L. Riano - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):909-925.
    Francis Bacon’s political thought cannot be understood without a close reading of his discussions about human emotions and the role they play from our private to public spheres of interaction. This paper discusses Bacon’s widespread treatment of envy as a particularly significant source of political strife within states which, when unattended, leads to civil war. Bacon rejects envy as a ‘private’ passion. As a ‘public’ passion, however, it becomes a tool for preventing the very outcome to which ‘private’ envy is (...)
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    Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography. [REVIEW]Neil G. Robertson - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):1064-1066.
    It is a curious fact that while Strauss has a large group of devoted students, and students of students (the ‘Straussians’), who have dedicated enormous energy to continuing his legacy in books and...
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    Robespierre: the man who divides us most.Sylvana Tomaselli - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):1061-1064.
    David A. Bell and Hugo Drochon’s foreword prepares us well for Gauchet’s Robespierre. We are not to expect a biography, any form of preamble, nor footnotes, archival discoveries, nor wrestling with...
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    Christendom: the triumph of a religion.Anthony Black - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):900-903.
    This book examines and seeks to explain the rise of Western Christianity from the beginning to the fourteenth century. Heather begins by arguing that ‘Christendom’ as we know it would never have co...
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    The historian, the shaman, and the werewolf.Robert Fredona & Sophus A. Reinert - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):885-899.
    All of a historian's work is devoted to sources. Even his personal memories become sources, as his historical research advances. – Arnaldo Momigliano1 The Loop GarooGoin’ down to JunkanooThe Loop G...
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    ‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker.Matthew Gibson & Damian Shaw - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):787-805.
    The following article consists of an introduction by the first author, an annotated translation by the second, and then an analysis by the first, of the earliest known Scandinavian response to the Vampire phenomenon of Medvedia in 1732 by Nicolaus Boye, a state-employed physician residing in Stockholm. The translation shows that Boye’s own article, which constitutes a complete refutation of Johann Flückinger’s claims, was meticulously organised, abstracting and arguing against the major themes which he observed in the Visum et Repertum, (...)
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    Fascism as a recurring possibility: Zeev Sternhell, the anti-Enlightenment, and the intellectual history of European modernity.Tommaso Giordani - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):854-869.
    The article offers an overview and a critical assessment of the work of Zeev Sternhell, focussing on the questions of fascism and of the anti-Enlightenment tradition. It claims that the career of the Israeli historian revolves around the intuition of a history of European modernity marked by a central opposition: that between the Enlightenment and the anti-Enlightenment. I show how the idea is already present in his initial works, and argue that it produces a specific kind of intellectual history, concerned (...)
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    Infrastructural strains on scholarly transnational collaboration in eighteenth-century Europe. The logistics of knowledge in making Thomas Mangey’s Philonis Judaei Opera 1728–42.Jacob Orrje - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):806-821.
    This paper analyses the logistics of knowledge in eighteenth-century Anglo-Swedish scholarly collaborative relationships. More specifically, it analyses the making of Thomas Mangey’s Philonis Judaei Opera as a long-distance collaborative project between Mangey and the Swedish scholars Jacob Serenius and Erik Benzelius. The early modern Republic of Letters has commonly been characterised as a collaborative communication system upheld by communitarian norms. This description has however been challenged by several recent studies, which have underlined the commercial aspects of early modern scholarly exchange. (...)
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    Democracy and Tocqueville’s aesthetics of the revolution.Jin-gon Park - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):836-853.
    Throughout his career, Alexis de Tocqueville was deeply concerned about the replacement of public-minded politics by materialistic egoism in modern democratic societies. Though there is a substantial literature on his response to democratic materialism, the poetic aesthetic category of the ideal and beautiful has been rarely discussed as a major element of his remedy for the crisis. Contrary to a common scholarly assumption, this article argues that Tocqueville conceived democratic individuals’ poetic taste for the ideal and beautiful as a key (...)
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    Hans Jonas’s reflections on the human soul and the notion of imago Dei: an explanation of their role in ethics and some possible historical influences on their development.Luca Settimo - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):870-884.
    Throughout his career, Hans Jonas has reflected on the notion of the human soul and on the concept of man being created in God’s image. A careful analysis of his writings reveals that (approximately) from 1968 he changed his perspective on these topics. Before this year, Jonas used some Gnostic myths to speak about the image of man in relation to God and was concerned that referring to the immortality of the human soul or to the notion of imago Dei (...)
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    Thomas Reid and the University.Christopher A. Shrock - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):905-907.
    Paul Wood’s edited volume, Thomas Reid and the University, exceeds the bounds of its title. This last instalment of The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, collects artifacts from Reid’s pedagogical...
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    Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement.Lucian Staiano-Daniels - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):822-835.
    Although Kant disapproved of war, he asserted it was sublime. His views of war are disconnected and in places surprisingly positive, but he avoids grappling with their implications. This article analyses these heterogeneous discussions through Kant’s notion of the sublime to argue that some of his statements imply war’s sublimity can provoke an educated public into forming an international federation: the power to keep all in awe in Kant’s interpretation of international foundation is not the Hobbesean sovereign or a coercive (...)
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    Machiavelli: from radical to reactionary.Maurizio Viroli - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):903-905.
    In recent years, the persuasion that Niccolò Machiavelli was a cynical, irreligious devious, ambitious, deceitful, and misogynous man has been gaining remarkable consensus among scholars. The most...
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    Hegel and the French Revolution.Richard Bourke - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):757-768.
    G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) has commonly been seen as Europe’s leading philosopher since Kant. His influence extended across the globe down to the Second World War – not least through his dissident disciple, Karl Marx. Since then, despite intermittent revivals, his importance has tended to be eclipsed by a rising tide of anti-modernist polemic, extending from Heidegger to postmodernism. Central to Hegel’s political thought was his view of the French Revolution. But notwithstanding its pivotal role in the development of (...)
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    Ordoliberal ideas on Europe: two paradigms of European economic integration.Federico Bruno - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):737-756.
    Ordoliberalism is often recognized as a powerful ideational source during the Euro crisis; however, there is no pure ordoliberal vision of European integration, and ordoliberal ideas have been used to support both Eurosceptical and Europeanist positions during the crisis. This article reconstructs the ordoliberal theoretical and political debate on European integration and argues that there exist two ordoliberal paradigms of European integration: one bottom-up, whereby the commitment to liberal economic policies at the national level is the precondition for a liberal (...)
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    Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals.Davide Cadeddu - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):708-721.
    Whenever the problem of the relationship between culture and politics is addressed, Julien Benda undoubtedly remains the most frequently mentioned author at the international level. His indictment of the intellectuals’ betrayal is as famous as his speeches to the European nation, published in 1933, about five years later than his widely diffused La Trahison des clercs. Throughout the Discours à la nation européenne, the author explicitly addresses the intellectuals already mentioned in his previous essay and asks them to assume responsibility (...)
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    Raymond Aron and the moral and cultural conditions of liberal democracy during war time.Alexis Carré - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):722-736.
    If the specificity of liberal democracy, as a regime, is to base power on consent then political violence appears to contradict the typical self-understanding of the societies whose functioning it informs. A justification of the motives which may call for such violence thus becomes both a political and a philosophical problem when such a regime faces the necessity to resort to violent means of action. Reaching intellectual maturity during the 30’s and the 40’s, while democratic states were faltering in Europe, (...)
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    The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750–1850.Morgan Golf-French - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):776-778.
    It will surprise no readers that Germans fiercely debated the notion of revelation from 1750 to 1850. Nevertheless, few would deny the difficulties inherent to studying the topic, with its bewilder...
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    Reforming the law of nature: the secularisation of political thought 1523–1689.Heikki Haara - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):775-776.
    Simon P. Kennedy’s book is an intervention in the recent revival of interest in the role of natural law in Reformed Protestantism. It deals with shifts in perspectives on human nature and politics...
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    Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology.Carlos Gregorio Hernández Hernández & Cristina Barreiro Gordillo - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):676-691.
    Karl Marx’s writings about Spain have been published and studied on several occasions. Among the sources listed by Pedro Ribas, William Walton and his work The Revolutions of Spain, from 1808 to the End of 1836 figures among those mentioned most. Rather surprising, given that Walton sympathised with both Spanish Carlism and Portuguese Miguelism. Though he was born and died in England, Walton lived in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, in America and in the French colony of Santo Domingo at (...)
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    Rolling transition and the role of intellectuals: the case of Hungary.Luca Kristóf - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):783-785.
    This is a book about intellectuals in late twentieth-century Hungary. Altough not strictly a work of intellectual history, it is very much of interest to intellectual historians of the Soviet and p...
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    Russian political philosophy: anarchy, authority, autocracy.Kåre Johan Mjør - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):781-783.
    Evert van der Zweerde’s book is the most recent result of the author’s long-time study of Russian philosophy and Russian philosophical culture. The latter concept has been one of Zweerde’s main con...
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    Taylor and Hobbes on toleration.Takuya Okada - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):637-653.
    The English Revolution saw fierce controversy over religious toleration. While this controversy was usually associated with parliamentarians and Puritans, major contributions to the debate were also made by a few thinkers from the royalist side: Jeremy Taylor and Thomas Hobbes. Despite their prominence in the toleration debate, however, the intellectual context of the English Revolution in which their distinctive views of toleration were formed remains unclear apart from Hobbes’s association with the Independents. Here, I suggest the potential importance of Taylor (...)
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    On the concept of Volk in Carl Schmitt.Roberto Orsi - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):692-707.
    Although Volk may be considered as a central concept in the work of Carl Schmitt, and one to which the German jurist dedicated a sizable amount of writing, a remarkably limited number of publications have so far provided an analytical study of how Schmitt conceptualised Volk, particularly in English-language secondary literature. This article intends to address this gap by systematically reviewing how the concept of Volk appears in the Schmitt’s theoretical effort, with a particular focus on his publications from the (...)
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    Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle.James R. M. Wakefield - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):769-774.
    Ugo Spirito (1896–1979) was a philosopher who changed his mind, repeatedly and sometimes radically, about many of his major commitments. At different times he called himself a fascist and a communi...
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    Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests. [REVIEW]Ryan Walter - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):778-780.
    Ward posits the existence of a classical liberalism that runs from Hobbes to John Stuart Mill and is composed of two boxes, rights-talk and interests-talk. He further presumes the existence of poli...
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    The deist controversy and John Craig’s Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica(1699).Jeff Wigelsworth - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (4):654-675.
    John Craig’s book Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology) infuriated contemporaries when it appeared in 1699. Modern scholars also express reservations about the contents. Many read the work in association with Isaac Newton and view Craig’s calculation for the Second Coming in 3150 with bemusement and condescension. Historians of statistics give the book a fairer reading, but often they look to assess the closeness of Craig’s calculations to modern mathematics. In this article, I aim to situate Craig (...)
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    Cold war liberalism in West Germany: Richard Löwenthal and ‘Western civilization’.Riccardo Bavaj - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):607-624.
    Richard Löwenthal’s response to the challenges of ‘1968’ was more complex than that of most of his liberal colleagues. He did not simply remain beholden to the interpretative patterns of a German ‘special path’ (Sonderweg). He also, and increasingly so, drew on the conceptual framework of ‘Western civilization’ to make sense of and cope with the socio-cultural transformations of his times. What many like-minded intellectuals perceived solely as a ‘deviation from the West’, he also viewed as a ‘crisis of the (...)
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  61. Marquard Freher and the presumption of goodness in legal humanism.Andreas Blank - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):491-505.
    One of the most detailed early modern discussions of the morality of esteem can be found in the work of the reformed jurist and historian Marquard Freher (1565–1614). Since the question of how much esteem others deserve is fraught with a high degree of uncertainty, Freher relied on the work of other legal humanists, who discussed questions of esteem from the perspective of arguments from the presumption of goodness. The humanist approach to the presumption of goodness integrated considerations about presumed (...)
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    Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul.Niall Dilucia - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):506-522.
    The English Catholic philosopher Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) has enjoyed a recent spate of scholarly attention as a prodigious traveller, political figure, and man of diverse intellectual interests. This article contributes to this scholarship by assessing the commentary on salvation at the heart of Digby’s philosophy of the soul and the historical contexts in which it was produced. It argues that Digby’s thinking on the soul was a meditation on the worldly interactions a Catholic must undertake or avoid in order (...)
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    Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law.Gábor Gángó - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):523-542.
    The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of Samuel Pufendorf’s road from his early Elementa jurisprudentiae universalis, published in late 1660 to the eight ‘books’ of De jure naturae et gentium from 1672. In the latter, Pufendorf completed a methodical shift from the more geometrico method to a universal jurisprudence based upon a wide range of humanistic arts, including history. In this connection, Pufendorf gave more credit to Hugo Grotius and his De jure belli ac pacis than in (...)
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    On being one’s own dominus.James A. Harris - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):625-632.
    A central contention of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty before Liberalism (1998) was that careful examination of parliamentarian political argument during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth ce...
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    The Balance of Power from the Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia (1648) to the War of the Spanish Succession and the Peace of Utrecht (1713). [REVIEW]Izidor Janžekovič - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):561-579.
    The balance-of-power idea became a crucial concept in the discourse of international affairs by the mid-seventeenth century. Nonetheless, the concept of balance of power was not even explicitly referenced in the Peace of Westphalia (1648). Instead, the legal principles of status quo ante and uti possidetis reigned supreme. Even though the balance-of-power principle was not mentioned in the Peace of Westphalia, it was often referenced during the negotiations and its implicit presence or practical balance of power was evident in the (...)
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    Rousseau on multiplying partial associations.Sungho Kimlee, Gregory Conti & William Selinger - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):589-606.
    In Feb. 2022 Sungho Kimlee passed away. In his memory, we present this revised and abridged version of a portion of his dissertation, Factions and Orders: from Machiavelli to Madison. Sungho summarized the work as follows: “Since antiquity, thinkers have held that every society consists of two hostile orders – the few and the many. But they have disagreed on the proper method for defusing this civic divide, and their various proposed remedies can be classified into three approaches. The first (...)
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    Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition.R. J. W. Mills - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):633-636.
    The paradox that has challenged historians of abolitionism is how Britain’s outlawing of trafficking of enslaved Africans in 1807 could take place when the country’s involvement in the trade was as...
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    Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race.Gabriel Sabbagh - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):580-588.
    This paper is prompted by the publication of a book by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran on the contest launched in 1739 by the Bordeaux Academy on the origin of black skin and hair. The most influential work submitted as part of this contest was an essay by Pierre Barrère. This paper has two parts, one devoted to a review of the book, the other to the discovery of a cogent text, which was certainly written by a (...)
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    Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the prophetic imagination.Avshalom M. Schwartz - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (3):543-560.
    This paper investigates the development of Hobbes’s theory of imagination and its unique intervention in the scientific debates of the seventeenth century. I argue that this intervention is designed to solve a tension between Hobbes’s scientific and political commitments. His scientific commitments led him to take the imagination seriously. While unorthodox in many ways, Hobbes was working within the predominant scientific framework of his time, which can be traced back to Aristotle and Galen. The same framework, however, was used for (...)
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    A world safe for Catholicism: interwar international law and Neo-Scholastic universalism.Paolo Amorosa - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):411-427.
    This article recounts how Neo-Scholastic international lawyers navigated the complex political landscape of the 1920s and 30s, combining universalism, nationalism and religious belief. Participating in the contemporary re-engagement of Catholics with modern politics, they re-imagined the international legal order in Catholic terms. They argued that a universal morality, overruling the extremes of state sovereignty, was the only solid basis for just and stable global legal relations. While the contribution of Catholics to the establishment of the post-war world order and the (...)
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    Life, theory, and group identity in Hannah Arendt’s thought.Caroline Ashcroft - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):486-488.
    In this book Karin Fry frames Hannah Arendt’s political thought within her biography, focusing on those aspects of Arendt’s life that have received less attention in the existing literature. Arendt...
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    The Weirdest People in the World: how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous.Antony Black - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):483-486.
    This book is outstandingly important for two reasons: first, because it offers a new explanation for the uniqueness of the West, and secondly because it develops in a radical way the notion of hist...
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    The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665).Niall Dilucia - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):474-475.
    Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) was an aristocratic English Catholic philosopher who has been the subject of several recent studies, each of which has sought to demonstrate his intellectual originalit...
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    The rise and demise of non-existent universalism: Reinhart Koselleck and the universality of legal concepts.Ville Erkkilä - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):443-459.
    This article addresses the boundaries of law and historiography in scrutinizing some rarely analyzed aspects of the works of Reinhart Koselleck. The article studies the significance of the tradition of ‘politico-juridical’ concepts in Koselleck’s thought, by tracing the intellectual history and biographies of some notable legal historians that for the large part defined the legal historical discourse after the Second World War. It is argued that a research of the connections between Koselleck and these legal historians provides an insight into (...)
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    Refugee scholarship and the universality of legal concepts.Jacob Giltaij - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):428-442.
    Often, a more or less universal quality is attributed to certain legal concepts. For refugee scholars working between 1933 and 1945, the universal quality of these concepts was challenged on two fronts: first, the breaking down of the Weimar Constitution and the German Rechtsstaat under Nazi rule demonstrated the fragility of a constitutional and legal order. Moreover, the breakdown of the German Rechtsstaat was felt on a deeper conceptual level. ‘Immutable’ legal concepts turned out to be easily mutated to conform (...)
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    Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan.Morgan Golf-French - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):479-481.
    Recent years have seen a wave of new scholarship on Georg Forster. At least five books substantially concerned with Forster have been published since 2017.1 This interest is hardly surprising. He t...
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    Free Market: The History of an Idea.Ian Kumekawa - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):488-489.
    In Free Market, Jacob Soll has crafted an encyclopedic work, tracing the concept of the “free market” from Cicero to Milton Friedman. The core of the book concerns European political theorists, fro...
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    Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world.James A. T. Lancaster - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):476-477.
    Christine Jackson has succeeded in writing the modern biography of Edward Herbert long sought by early modern scholars. Jackson’s Courtier, Scholar, and Man of the Sword paints a rich picture of Ed...
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    Universalising colonial law principles on land law and land registration: the role of the Institut Colonial International(1894).Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):395-410.
    In 1894, the Institut Colonial International was founded in Brussels, with the aim to engage and promote transnational exchanges between jurists, scholars, politicians, colonial administrators and experts, comparing different colonial experiences. As the Institut Colonial International’s founders had hoped, its publications promoted legal debates, discussions and the prospects of specific legislation, decrees or norms to be adapted and used in entirely different colonial systems. This paper will show that the Institut Colonial International encouraged the exchange of ideas about the various (...)
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    David Hume and the myth of the ‘Warburtonian School’.R. J. W. Mills - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):200-223.
    David Hume (1711–1776) believed a ‘confederacy of authors’, brought together by the notoriously pugnacious William Warburton (1698–1779), were his most consistent and scurrilous critics. Warburton and his ‘School’ were Hume’s bêtes noires and embodied so much of what he fought against. Only there is reason to believe that the ‘Warburtonian School’ was more a useful fiction than a historical reality. The following deep dive into Humeana and the ‘stuff of anecdote’ digs up substantial conclusions about Hume’s philosophical project and context. (...)
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    Gibbon’s Christianity: religion, reason, and the fall of Rome.R. J. W. Mills - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):477-479.
    Gibbon was a far more subtle, serious and empathetic historian of the triumph of Christianity than his reputation as a sneering infidel historian implies, or so argues Liebert in this short and wel...
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    The authorship of Sister Peg.David R. Raynor - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):345-383.
    This paper is in four parts. The first sets out the debate between those who wished England to have only a professional army, and those who sought to supplement it with a citizen militia. This debate is crucial for understanding The History of the Proceedings in the Case of Margaret, Commonly Called Peg, Only Lawful Sister to John Bull, Esq. This political satire (commonly known as Sister Peg) is about the successful struggle to re-establish the militia in England in 1757, (...)
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    ‘Let Margaret Sleep’: putting to bed the authorship controversy over Sister Peg.Richard B. Sher - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):295-344.
    Nearly four decades after David Raynor attributed to David Hume an allegorical Scots militia pamphlet from the early 1760s popularly known as Sister Peg, there is still no scholarly consensus about whether the author was in fact Hume or his friend Adam Ferguson. Using new evidence that has emerged since the appearance of Raynor’s edition in 1982 – including information about Sister Peg’s publication history, Ferguson’s handwritten corrections and revisions in the Abbotsford copy of the work, a 1767 newspaper article (...)
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    The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’.Richard B. Sher - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):384-394.
    In ‘The Authorship of Sister Peg', David Raynor relies on circumstantial evidence, unsubstantiated hypotheses, and subjective analysis in an effort to dispute my article ‘Let Margaret Sleep' and claim the authorship of Sister Peg for David Hume. This reply focusses instead on the large body of documentary and testimonial evidence that has surfaced during the past forty years, which overwhelmingly and convincingly supports the attribution of Sister Peg to Adam Ferguson. New documentary evidence includes Ferguson's emendations in Sir Walter Scott's (...)
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    The Hume-Burke connection examined.Max Skjönsberg - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):243-266.
    This article examines the connection, personal and intellectual, between David Hume and Edmund Burke. Scholars have often compared the two thinkers, mainly in an unsystematic and selective way. Burke’s early biographers regarded them as opposite figures on account of Hume’s religious and philosophical scepticism and Burke’s devout Christian faith. By contrast, modern scholars often stress their intellectual kinship. More specifically, they have repeatedly attempted to place Hume and Burke either close together or far apart on a liberal-conservative spectrum. This article (...)
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    Dugald Stewart’s empire of the mind: moral education in the late Scottish enlightenment.Ian Stewart - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):481-483.
    Dugald Stewart is usually thought of as the final major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. But though his name is a recognisable one among intellectual historians, few would probably be able to...
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    The notorious Dr. Middleton: David Hume and the Ninewells years.Tim Stuart-Buttle - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):267-294.
    In his brief autobiography, Hume recalls how the publication of the heterodox Anglican clergyman, Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry caused a ‘furore’ in England in 1748, whereas his own Philosophical Essays were ‘neglected’. This has secured Middleton a very marginal place in Hume scholarship. This essay argues that Middleton's importance at a crucial stage of Hume's intellectual development, during the Ninewells years (April 1749 – July 1751), was more significant than has been allowed. On his return to Ninewells, Hume reflected on (...)
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    Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair.Ryu Susato - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):224-242.
    In the biographies of David Hume, Horace Walpole’s name has been memorialised as the author of a forged letter assuming the identity of the King of Prussia. However, in the letter, Walpole’s scorn was directed against not only Rousseau, but also other French philosophes and, possibly, even Hume. Walpole drew a line between himself and the ‘pedants and pretended philosophers’, although he sometimes blurred the distinction between the two by considering an author or ‘man of letters’ synonymous with a ‘philosopher’. (...)
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    The concept of universality and the universality of concepts: a comment.Kaius Tuori - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):460-471.
    This concluding article draws together some of the connecting strands between the preceding four articles, seeking to outline a number of fundamental issues common to them all and ultimately the legal concept of universality in general. I argue that there is a fundamental Eurocentrism present that has a number of implications, ranging from the hierarchical worldview and its ingrained evolutionary basis to the notion of communities beyond the nation state which would in the guise of benevolence impose and dictate both (...)
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    Introduction.Felix Waldmann - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):193-199.
    This special issue originated in a workshop of June 2017 on ‘Hume’s Thought and Hume’s Circle’ at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) in the University of Edinburgh. Among t...
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    Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late middle ages.R. F. Yeager - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (2):472-473.
    Arvind Thomas has written a remarkable book. That said, however, it must be quickly added that it is not a book for everyone, not even for all students of medieval literature. It is a very thoughtf...
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    Democracy versus representation in Gregory Conti's parliament mirror of the nation.Richard Boyd - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):153-155.
    Representation in the Anglo-American tradition has often been conceived in terms of the “refine and filter” model commonly associated with The Federalist. Gregory Conti challenges this concept of representation by bringing to light an alternative tradition of “mirroring” that preoccupied nineteenth-century British thinkers who were intent on parliamentary reforms. While Conti’s recovery of this “mirroring” tradition offers potentially useful insights for contemporary theorists of descriptive representation, it nonetheless hinges on an assumption that representative government is a qualitative matter of deliberation (...)
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    John Stuart Mill, Socialiste.Christopher Brooke - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):182-184.
    Mill wrote in the 1849 edition of Principles of Political Economy that Fourierism presented “in every respect the least open to objection, of the forms of Socialism”. Why did he think this? If we look at Mill's earlier engagements with the Saint-Simonians and Comte side by side a striking pattern of agreements and disagreements emerges: Comte and Mill were anti-utopians, but the Saint-Simonians were not; Mill and the Saint-Simonians were feminists, but Comte was not; and the Saint-Simonians and Comte sought (...)
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    Why the socialist Mill will not alarm his liberal readers: a reflection on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist.Ross Carroll - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):179-181.
    McCabe's interpretation of Mill as a socialist is convincing but does not render his writings any less available to liberals. The term ‘socialism' was a slippery one in nineteenth-century Britain. For the likes of Arnold Toynbee, even self-proclaimed Tories could become socialists if they embraced the right policies. The existence of such ‘Tory socialists’ serves as a reminder of the hybridity of political identity at the time Mill was writing (hyphenated socialists were socialists nonetheless). Several aspects of Mill's socialism – (...)
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    In what senses should we see John Stuart Mill as a socialist?Gregory Conti - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):176-178.
    Scholars of many stripes will profit from Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist: not only specialists in Mill or the nineteenth century, but all who are interested in considering perennial que...
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    A response to the roundtable: politics, history, and JS Mill in Parliament the Mirror of the Nation.Gregory Conti - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):169-173.
    One unanticipated pleasure of writing a book has been seeing how intelligent and learned people respond to it. This roundtable is no exception. I’m very grateful to Hugo Drochon for suggesting and...
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    Symposium on Gregory Conti's parliament the mirror of the nation: representation, deliberation and democracy in victorian Britain.Hugo Drochon - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):174-175.
    ‘One man, one vote’ is a longstanding democratic battle-cry, but it has come under increasing scrutiny of late, and not simply because of its gendered language. If gender equality, at least at the...
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    Symposium on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist.Hugo Drochon - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):152-152.
    In the pantheon of liberal political thought, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, with its defence of freedom of thought, conscience, speech and private property, takes pride of place. So why did Mill c...
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    The politics of an inclusive parliament: on Gregory Conti's Parliament the Mirror of the Nation.Gianna Englert - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):156-158.
    Parliament the Mirror of the Nation is a fascinating study of diversity. It maps Victorian Britain’s diverse and divergent responses to the challenge of achieving a representative Parliament. These...
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    Rethinking the systematics of history with Jean Baechler beyond Reinhart Koselleck – the challenge of the three M's (meta, macro, micro).Alexandre Escudier - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):117-135.
    The article develops three complementary lines of argument. It first points to the great theoretical gap that characterizes Koselleck's work: quasi-transcendental anthropology on the one hand, and historical semantics on the other. The hybrid status of historical semantics, both macro- and micro- sociological, is also specified. Secondly, the article critiques the neo-Hobbesianism implicit in Koselleck's historical ontology. Departing from Jean Baechler's anthropology, it reformulates the conceptual framework within which the initial foundational ambition could be maintained without however renewing the aporiai (...)
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    On the battlefield of ‘ _Theorie_ ’ Koselleck reads L. von Stein with Carl Schmitt’s eyes.Wolf Feuerhahn - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):72-88.
    The shadow cast by National Socialism over the German academic world, and Koselleck’s close relations with the Nazi lawyer Carl Schmitt, constitute a challenge for a historical inquiry of Koselleck’s historiography. To address this challenge, I propose a ‘close contextual reading’ of an article published in 1965 (‘Geschichtliche Prognose in Lorenz von Steins Schrift zur preussischen Verfassung’) in which Koselleck puts forward one of his major diagnoses of how the conception of history had evolved since 1750. This article praises Lorenz (...)
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    The republicanisation of empire between Universal Peace and war in the early United States.Ariane Viktoria Fichtl - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):37-47.
    Enlightenment writers have proposed projects to secure long-lasting peace within the belligerent environment of the European political landscape since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Madison and Rousseau, both declared critics of the Perpetual Peace project of the Abbé de St.-Pierre, were united in their opinion on the primacy of popular sovereignty within states to fulfil the goal of universal peace on the international level. Whereas the American constitution was built on a ‘peace pact’ to secure the union’s survival, the (...)
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    The present of the Historik: historicizing Koselleck's theory of historical times.Bruno Godefroy & Bruno Quélennec - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):48-55.
    Many recent attempts to define the current historical period presuppose a crisis of historical consciousness. Concepts such as ‘postmodernity’ or ‘posthistory’ entail the idea that the period is ch...
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    The consequences of Gregory Conti’s parliament the mirror of the nation.Christopher Macleod - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):159-161.
    In this review of Gregory Conti's Parliament the Mirror of the Nation, I offer an outline of what I take to the thesis of that work: that during the mid-Victorian period, mirroring was a key goal of representation, which dominated and framed discussions of post-1832 debates on parliamentary reform. I focus, in particular, on the teleological orientation of the arguments that Conti uncovers in his systematic reconstruction of debates that Conti offers.
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    John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation.Helen McCabe - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):162-164.
    Early on in Parliament: The Mirror of the Nation, Gregory Conti criticises what he sees as a ‘too-exclusive’ focus on John Stuart Mill when considering the political thought of Victorian Britain (7...
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    Response to comments – John Stuart Mill, socialist.Helen McCabe - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):188-191.
    This response must start with thanks to all those who offered comments. It is a great pleasure to read such thoughtful engagements with my book, especially as this is a project on which I have been...
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    Spatial aspects in the work of Reinhart Koselleck.Niklas Olsen - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):136-151.
    Reinhart Koselleck never gave spatial aspects centre stage in his work, but is nevertheless referred to as a pioneer of the ‘spatial turn’. This article explores this paradox by examining Koselleck's understanding of and approach to spatial aspects, the role they played in his work, and the reception of his work on spatial matters by other scholars. The aim is to achieve a better grasp of Koselleck's work and to clarify in what sense we can label him a pioneer of (...)
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    Reinhart Koselleck and the crisis of historical science in the context of post-war German historiography.Benjamin Pinhas - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):89-101.
    Structural history, Conceptual history, Theory of historical time, Semantics of History: the work of Reinhart Koselleck is associated with a wide spectrum of methodological orientations that emerged during the post-war period and originated from the in-depth reflection on the significance of historical sciences. Koselleck shared with numerous West-German historians the observation that historical science was experiencing a profound crisis exacerbated by the increasing influence of social sciences. However, unlike his contemporary historians, who advocated the criticism of historicism as a prerequisite (...)
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    ‘Light on the enlightenment’ or ‘counter-enlightenment’?: Rereading Reinhart Koselleck’s Critique and Crisis in its context(s).Bruno Quélennec - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):56-71.
    This article tackles the political implications of Reinhart Koselleck’s first work, Kritik und Krise, re-questioning its relationship to the ‘Enlightenment’ and the ‘Counter-Enlightenment’. Rather than establishing the semantic contents of this pair of antonymic concepts in an abstract way, I believe that we must study the concrete uses to which they are put, that is, the discursive strategies of the actors themselves showing, in each case, the specific adversaries against whom they are mobilized and the specific ends to which they (...)
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    Reinhart Koselleck’s chrono-political crisis theory. Actuality and limits.Falko Schmieder - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):102-116.
    This article is intended to contribute to the discussion of the topicality and historical and theoretical limitations of Koselleck’s theory. The concept of acceleration, which has a special meaning for Koselleck, both in terms of conceptual history and social theory, will serve as a guide to this investigation. Since it is a socio- and temporal-analytical concept, the current thesis, that we have entered a post-Koselleckian culture, should be amenable to testing on the basis of this concept, which this article will (...)
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    Assessing ‘unnatural lusts’: John Locke on the permissibility of male-male intimacy.Brian Smith - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):1-17.
    This paper argues that Locke offers qualified support for male-male intimacy. While one can find denunciations of sodomy and ‘debauchery’ in his work, these claims are embedded in a natural and divine law framework that did not formally specify how to define much less morally characterize these actions. At the very least, Locke makes it difficult to strictly condemn sodomy or other homosexual acts as inherently immoral. This paper will explore three areas of interest: 1) Locke’s Paraphrases of the Pauline (...)
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    Between Athens and the Port-Royal; contextualising Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Plato.Benjamin C. Thompson - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):18-36.
    Increasing attention has been paid to Platonism in Rousseau’s moral and political thought; however, there has been incomplete consideration of his annotated Platonis Operum – a Ficino Latin translation. Addressing this lacuna, the article details Rousseau’s study of Plato’s works. It can be shown that Rousseau’s reading of Plato commenced no earlier than the summer of 1737 during his residence at Les Charmettes. At this time, Rousseau had been considering a set of largely seventeenth-century philosophical texts, which allows contextualisation of (...)
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    History and theory in Gregory Conti's Parliament Mirror of the Nation.Mónica Brito Vieira - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (1):165-168.
    Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian England offers a carefully researched, fine-grained historical reconstruction of ninete...
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