History of European Ideas

ISSNs: 0191-6599, 1873-541X

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    The Long Arc of Legality.Christopher Adair-Toteff - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):168-172.
    This is a review of David Dyzenhaus’ The Long Arc of Legality, a book which is intended to provide a theory of legality that is not founded on coercion or command. Dyzenhaus focuses on H.L.A Hart and Hans Kelsen but he spends much of his effort on Hobbes’ legal thinking. It is not an easy book to read and one may not always agree with Dyzenhaus, but The Long Arc of Legality is a book well worth the effort to read.
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    Introduction to a Review Symposium on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability.Ross Carroll - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):141-142.
    One of the more exhausting features of contemporary political debate is its intensely denunciatory tone. Progressives denounce their opponents as stubborn reactionaries or (worse) tepid liberals. I...
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    Excessive self-esteem, and the social consequences of Mandeville’s analysis: a comment on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable.Alexandra Chadwick - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):154-156.
    This contribution to a roundtable on Robin Douglass's Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy and Sociability (Princeton University Press, 2023) focuses on two themes raised in the book. First, Mandeville's definition of pride as over-valuing oneself. I ask whether Mandeville seriously entertains the possibility that high self-esteem can be justified, and I consider how his position might compare with that of Hobbes. The second theme concerns Mandeville's claim that pride is the ‘hidden spring' behind all human actions. Douglass's Mandeville sees some social (...)
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    The problem of toleration: Tacitus, Foucault and governmentality.Andrea di Carlo - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):93-108.
    This article proposes a novel interpretation of Montaigne’s and Bayle’s comments on Tacitus. My contention is that their Tacitism is a Foucauldian discourse on toleration. Toleration is an example of governmentality, a strategy to govern a population, not a genuine call for religious diversity. This novel reading applies to Michel de Montaigne’s Essays and Pierre Bayle’s Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet and his Historical and Critical Dictionary. Montaigne’s essay On the Useful and the Honourable, he shows that (...)
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    Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable: a reply.Robin Douglass - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):162-167.
    I am extremely grateful to all the participants in this symposium for engaging so thoughtfully and generously with Mandeville’s Fable, as I am to Robin Mills for bringing them together. As the fore...
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    El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado(1593).Carolina Ferraro - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):43-57.
    The purpose of this article is to draw a comparison between two models of sovereignty, embodied by Philip II of Spain and the Roman emperor Tiberius, as described in Cornelius Tacitus’ Annales. My analysis is based on Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado, the Castilian translation of Della Ragion di Stato by Giovanni Botero (1544–1617), made by the Spanish Court historian Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549–1625). Herrera’s translation plays an important role in the Spanish reception of the wider (...)
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    Tacitus in the Discorso politico of Ottavio Sammarco: from threat of war into politics.Maria Sol Garcia Gonzalez - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):10-26.
    In 1626, the Neapolitan Ottavio Sammarco published the Discorso politico intorno la conseruatione della pace dell'Italia in which the author referred to the King of Spain as arbiter among the Italian princes and his ministers in Italy as efficient instruments to ensure the stability. This piece of political literature shows an explicit practical orientation, through which the author carries out a systematisation of the political means to achieve quietness in Italy. In articulating the praxis into formal language, Sammarco looks to (...)
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    Anticlerical legacies: the deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes 1670–1740. [REVIEW]Heikki Haara - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):173-175.
    In recent years, scholars have delved deeper into the intricate connections between Thomas Hobbes’s political and religious doctrines. It is now widely recognized that religion plays a central role...
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    Secularised Augustinianism: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable.James Harris - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):150-153.
    It is a great virtue of Robin Douglass’s new book that it distinguishes clearly between the various elements of Mandeville's thought. Douglass's primary concern in Mandeville's Fable is what he cal...
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    Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable.Jimena Hurtado - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):143-146.
    Bernard Mandeville is one of those authors who is always present but not deeply studied or taken very seriously. There has been, no doubt, scholarly work on Mandeville, beginning with F.B. Kaye’s e...
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    Susan Stebbing. [REVIEW]Teresa Kouri Kissel - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):182-184.
    Frederique Janssen-Lauret’s Susan Stebbing is a contribution to the Cambridge Elements Series on women in the history of philosophy. These books are typically short works on a particular philosophe...
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    Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works.Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):147-149.
    For the general public, Mandeville is mainly known – if he is known at all – as some sort of Hayekian mastermind of unbridled capitalism, while academics mainly know him as the author of the Fable...
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    Socinianism and Tacitism: tracing the path to secular thought in early modern religious and political discourse.Anna Maria Laskowska - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):58-75.
    This study delves into the unexplored intersection of Socinianism, a religious movement challenging Christian orthodoxy in the Early Modern period, and Tacitism, a political discourse inspired by Tacitus. Both fostered critical thinking, intertwining in nuanced ways. Socinianism’s theological skepticism questioned established beliefs, while Tacitism scrutinized historical and political accounts. Their controversial nature resulted in covert existence among elite intellectuals, shaping socio-political discourse. Socinianism’s theological nonconformity, akin to Tacitism’s critique of traditional political narratives, often sparked conflicts with authorities, revealing the intricate (...)
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    Understanding sociability through Mandevillean pride: comments on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable.Antong Liu - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):157-161.
    There is ‘a tendency to evaluate philosophical theories of human nature as more accurate or adequate when they are more attractive or flattering, not when they are more truthful,’ claim two contemp...
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    Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain. [REVIEW]Alex Middleton - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):177-179.
    William C. Lubenow’s new book rests on a distinguished career’s worth of scholarship on Victorian politics, administration, and intellectual culture. The author’s prolonged immersion in his subject...
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    ‘That golden sentence of Tacitus’: Tacitean quotation as the medium of political knowledge in Boccalini’s Ragguagli di Parnasso.Ellen O’Gorman - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):76-92.
    Boccalini’s Ragguagli di Parnasso (1612) provides us with a satirically inflected view of how Tacitean quotation was used throughout the sixteenth century as a medium of political knowledge. A detailed analysis of some Tacitean scenes in Ragguagli will help us to elicit some of the issues underlying the turn to Tacitus in the intellectual climate of the period: the search for truth in a new era of moral relativism; debates about the applicability of ancient maxims to contemporary realities; and the (...)
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    Protestantism, revolution and Scottish political thought: the European context, 1637-1651.Alasdair Raffe - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):175-177.
    Karie Schultz’s short and well-written book makes an important contribution to the history of early modern political thought. In six careful and cogent chapters, Schultz reconstructs the arguments...
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    Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador(1620).María Concepción Gutiérrez Redondo - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):27-42.
    Juan de Vera’s El Enbaxador (1620) was one of the main treatises on the role of the ambassador in Early Modern Europe and the first one published in Spanish. At the time, Spain was no exception to the influence of Tacitus as a significant ancient author to inspire the political practice of the age. Juan de Vera, a nobleman and writer, soon an ambassador and entitled count, incorporated his own reading of Tacitus into El Enbaxador. Justus Lipsius, the outstanding editor (...)
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  19. Max Weber’s interpretive sociology of law.Hubert Treiber - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):179-182.
    1. The number of jurists who have written books on Max Weber, especially on his sociology of law, is manageable. Even more limited is the number of those who have been involved in translating Weber...
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    (1 other version)Introduction: Tacitism.Jan Waszink - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):1-9.
    This introduction to the papers on Tacitism presented at the Renaissance Society of America’s conference in Dublin in 2022, summarises some broader tendencies in the scholarship on Tacitism, and presents a provisional sketch of the contribution to that scholarship which the current Warsaw research group on Tacitism and its connected researchers are developing, as exemplified by the articles in this collection.
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  21. Realist teachings: a chronology of Tacitism in the northern Netherlands.Jan Waszink - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):109-128.
    The aim of this article is to present a chronological overview of the political reception of Tacitus’ works in the northern Low Countries from the early sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth century. Most of the types of Tacitism proposed in the introduction are represented in the Dutch context in one way or another. A characteristic of the Dutch Tacitism(s) as discussed here is that they appear to be at the heart of the connections between academia and government (...)
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  22. Tacistist and counter-Tacitist rhetoric in Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion.Zofia Żółtek - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):129-140.
    This article discusses the use of some Tacitean key terms and techniques by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon in his History of the Rebellion, on the English Civil War, and in his autobiographical account of his times, the Life. Tacitism is a broad term denoting sceptical and secular historical and political ideas, inspired by the works of Cornelius Tacitus. English Tacitism dates back to the last decades of the sixteenth century and gained special importance during the reign of Charles I, (...)
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