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  1. Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science.Pierre Force - 2003 - Cambridge University Press.
    Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis'. Yet, as a neo-Epicurean idea, this hypothesis had been a matter of controversy for over a century and Smith opposed it from a neo-Stoic point of view. But how can the Epicurean principles of orthodox economic theory be reconciled with the (...)
     
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    Voltaire and the necessity of modern history.Pierre Force - 2009 - Modern Intellectual History 6 (3):457-484.
    This article revisits what has often been called the of Voltaire's historical work. It looks at the methodological and philosophical reasons for Voltaire's deliberate focus on modern history as opposed to ancient history, his refusal to in judging the past, and his extreme selectiveness in determining the relevance of past events to world history. Voltaire's historical practice is put in the context of the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, and considered in a tradition of universal history going back (...)
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    Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism.Pierre Force - 2009 - Journal of the History of Ideas 70 (4):523-544.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Montaigne and the Coherence of EclecticismPierre ForceSince the publication of Pierre Hadot's essays on ancient philosophy by Arnold Davidson in 1995,2 Michel Foucault's late work on "the care of the self"3 has appeared in a new light. We now know that Hadot's work was familiar to Foucault as early as the 1950s.4 It is also clear that Foucault's notion of "techniques of the self" is very close to what (...)
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    The teeth of time: Pierre Hadot on meaning and misunderstanding in the history of ideas1.Pierre Force - 2011 - History and Theory 50 (1):20-40.
    The French philosopher and intellectual historian Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) is known primarily for his conception of philosophy as spiritual exercise, which was an essential reference for the later Foucault. An aspect of his work that has received less attention is a set of methodological reflections on intellectual history and on the relationship between philosophy and history. Hadot was trained initially as a philosopher and was interested in existentialism as well as in the convergence between philosophy and poetry. Yet he chose (...)
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    The “Exasperating Predecessor”: Pocock on Gibbon and Voltaire.Pierre Force - 2016 - Journal of the History of Ideas 77 (1):129-145.
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    Innovation as Spiritual Exercise: Montaigne and Pascal.Pierre Force - 2005 - Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (1):17-35.
    Taking Pascal's appropriation of Montaigne as its main example, this article asks what it means to "say something new" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that literary and philosophical innovation is best understood in reference to the rhetorical tradition, and it analyzes what "saying something new" means in terms of inventio, dispositio, elocutio, decorum, and ethos. Close attention is also paid to the relationship between economy and equity (in the rhetorical sense of these terms). For Pascal and Montaigne, (...)
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    Le problème herméneutique chez Pascal.Pierre Force - 1989 - Vrin.
    III. INTERPRÉTATION ET CONTRARIÉTÉS 1. Contrariétés et apologétique Le Père Garasse justifie l'existence de contradictions dans la Bible en comparant les Ecritures au corpus des textes législatifs, que les juristes ont souvent du mal à ...
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  8. Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau.Pierre Force - 2015 - In John Christian Laursen & Gianni Paganini (eds.), Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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    Pascal, new trends in Port Royal Studies: actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature.David Wetsel, Frédéric Canovas, Philippe Sellier & Pierre Force (eds.) - 2002 - Tübingen: Narr.
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