The European Legacy

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    “A Symbol of Secularity and Revolution”? Rousseau’s Ambiguous Legacy.Jeremiah Alberg - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):649-654.
    The “central aim” of this book is “to offer a nuanced and wide-ranging analysis of the complex and manifold ways in which British Romantic writers engaged with Rousseau” (3). To accomplish this, th...
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    Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary.Warren Chernaik - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):669-673.
    This stimulating, ambitious interdisciplinary study, as its subtitle indicates, links seventeenth-century and modern concerns: a relationship between Milton and modernity is indicated in the titles...
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    Utopia as Akairological Rupture.Sunny Dhillon - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):577-594.
    This article argues for a reconceptualization of utopia as akairological rupture. Its central thesis disputes the conventional reading of utopia as a teleological goal to be realized by a social collective. Thus rather than viewing the potentiality of utopia as a prescribed ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants live in harmony, I argue that it should be seen as an akairological rupture, manifested through a determinately negative, individual, approach. In this reading, utopia is primarily a social condition within culture, and perennially opposed (...)
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    Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism.Jakub Filonik - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):673-675.
    Tim Whitmarsh’s collection of essays has seen the light of day at a time when the academic world is again reconsidering “classicism” and modernity’s relationship to the “classical.” This is even mo...
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    Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women.Andre Furlani - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):675-678.
    Annabel Abbs’s father told her that she was “an experiment” in the application of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s educational doctrines, hence her rough-scrabble pastoral upbringing on the Welsh coast, hom...
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    Donald Winnicott and the Politics of Care.Gal Gerson - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):678-681.
    The body of research on the social and political implications of Donald Winnicott’s psychoanalytic theory has been growing steadily in recent years. This has long been overdue, considering the preo...
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    Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies.J. -Guy Lalande - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):681-683.
    The controversies that characterize the history of the Stalin period are many, multifaceted, and quite complex. In their introduction, James Ryan and Susan Grant illustrate and contextualize that r...
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    Do Scientists Uncover Reality or Interpret Experience?Jürgen Lawrenz - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):639-648.
    “When a scientist speaks, it behoves us to attend with respectful silence.” This precept could be written over our whole era, beginning with the middle of the nineteenth century. Some readers may r...
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    Black Consciousness: “An Attitude of Mind and a Way of Life”.Francis D. Raška - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):655-662.
    This book by Mabogo Percy More, the author of a number of books on African philosophy and anti-black racism, analyzes the views of Black Consciousness activist Steve Biko on race and racism in Sout...
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    “I have nothing more to tell you, dear doctor”: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confession to Emile Zola.George Rousseau - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):663-668.
    The “Italian invert’s confessions” have long been known to historians of sexuality, yet this new edition lends them an authenticity never before enjoyed. The Prime Mover in the publication is Micha...
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    ‘Oioi – Oioi – Iehieh!’_ Democracy in Crisis! Aeschylus’ _Persians for Contemporary Stages.Klaus M. Schmidt - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):595-614.
    This article attempts a reinterpretation of Aeschylus’ Persians as primarily a warning about the instability of democracy following a major military victory against an overpowering totalitarian enemy. It discusses the historical and our contemporary ideas of the democratic principles of government versus the constant tendency towards a strongman regime. I argue that the play’s underlying philosophy is based on the Heraclitan idea of constant flux, which predates our modern ideas of the relativity of time and space, and the core concept (...)
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    How Republics Perish: Lodovico Alamanni, the Medici, and Transformational Leadership.Vasileios Syros - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):557-576.
    The goals of the present study are to relate the transactional and transformational aspects of modern leadership theory to the history of Medici rule and influence in Renaissance Florentine politics, and, at the same time, to test leadership models against the humanist debates on the accession of the Medici to power. I will focus on the Discorso sopra il fermare lo stato di Firenze nella devozione de’ Medici [Discourse on holding the State of Florence in devotion to the Medici], written (...)
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    Social Democracy in Turkey: Global Questions, Local Answers.Meral Ugur-Cinar & Ali Acikgoz - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):615-638.
    This article assesses the prospects of social democracy in Turkey in light of two prominent debates regarding social democracy: the challenge of populism and the proper balance between a politics of redistribution and a politics of recognition. By focusing on the Republican People’s Party (CHP), it shows that the main problem the party faces is to find ways of addressing the issues of recognition and redistribution. Success in addressing these issues would provide an effective alternative to the populist agenda of (...)
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    Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century.Erwin Warkentin - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (6):683-685.
    In some ways, the timing of this book is both fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. Considering its emphasis, authoritarian dictators who govern by spin rather than fear, it is of particular...
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    The Ontological Grounding of Hannah Arendt’s Political Ethics.Simas Čelutka - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):441-462.
    This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s account of the relationship between politics and morality. Many critics have argued that Arendt’s conception of political action lacks any moral foundations, while others have tried to focus on her understanding of thinking as a normative source of her ethics. In contrast to these views, I present an alternative explanation and argue that the sources of Arendt’s political ethics are located neither in the faculty of thinking nor in extrapolitical moral norms or rules, but in (...)
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    Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism from Syria to the Capitol Siege.Douglas J. Cremer - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):539-541.
    There has been a significant shift in the way terrorist violence is organized. Advocates of extreme violence no longer organize first in person and through word of mouth and utilize the internet an...
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    Free Speech in a World of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.Wayne Cristaudo - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):519-526.
    Both books reviewed here argue for the importance of free speech, though apart from that they have little in common. One, The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech is Everything by Eric Heinze is a cas...
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    Robert Walser: Uncanny Miniaturist On The Move.Andre Furlani - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):533-538.
    Though Robert Musil declared Franz Kafka to be “a special case of the Walser type,” it is Robert Walser who still gets justified as a special case of the Kafka type. Kafka gave his confidante Max B...
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  19. The Song of Songs: A Biography.Andre Furlani - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):544-546.
    “Christ awaketh the church,” my Victorian edition of The Authorized Version glosses the fifth chapter of The Songs of Songs, but what an awakening: “I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of...
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    Music and the Ineffable: The Case for Profundity in Music.Jürgen Lawrenz - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):503-518.
    In this article we confront the ineffability of music to seek out a tenable conception of profound depths being plumbed in many such works. We take our initial bearings from the writings of the late Peter Kivy, who was a musically trained thinker and tackled the subject no less than four times. Our main interest lies in his outright dismissal of the idea. However, the scaffolding of his arguments reveals that he privileges the discursive metier without any evidence in his (...)
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    English Romantic Poetry’s Clash of the Generations.Michael J. Neth - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):527-532.
    Jeffrey Cox’s new book takes as its guiding thesis the rejection of the widely-held view of Wordsworth (1770-1850) as a poet whose only substantial work was produced from 1798 until about 1808. Thi...
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    Dialogues with Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing.Matthew Del Nevo - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):541-544.
    Psyche singing. The subtitle has religious resonances, so do the contents of the book; so does psychoanalysis if it has to go deep (but ours is a time for shallows, surfaces and simulation). Michae...
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    Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics. [REVIEW]Jeff Noonan - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):547-548.
    This short collection of conversations between the renowned American philosopher of art Arthur C. Danto and Italian art critic Demetrio Paparoni will serve as an effective introduction to Danto’s w...
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    Valuing Diversity Without Illusions: The Anti-Utopian Agonism of Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies.Christof Royer - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):463-481.
    This article offers a novel interpretation of Karl Popper’s influential yet controversial book, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945). Popper, it argues, sheds light on a pivotal social and political question: How can we value genuine human plurality without succumbing to the illusion that enmity can be removed from the socio-political realm? What we find in Popper, I argue, is an “anti-utopian agonism,” that is, his conception of an open society harbors significant agonistic elements—a commitment to human plurality, an (...)
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    Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge.Arthur B. Shostak - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):550-551.
    In the years immediately following WWII, between 1946 and 1948, there were four well-known salutatory responses to liberation by ex-captives. First, joyous Jewish survivors in Displaced Person (DP)...
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    Material World: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and its Renaissance Reception.Lora Sigler - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (5):552-553.
    The essays chosen for this anthology were taken from a conference held April 20–21, 2018, in Florence, Italy, at the Dutch University Institute of Art. All concern themselves with what editor Guy H...
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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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    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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    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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    "“Something Other Than Reason”: Conservatism Past and Present". [REVIEW]D. N. Byrne - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (2):191-195.
    For many years Sir Roger Scruton’s incendiary pen, his own fine-point flamethrower, provoked outrage in the fields of journalism, literature, and in popular, as well as academic studies. As a philo...
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