- Claude Lefort: the myth of the One
- Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen
- Machiavelli: from radical to reactionary
- Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography
- The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth
- Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century
- Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series
- Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne: an introduction
- The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France
- Thomas Reid and the University
- Derrida and history: a failed approach
- Robespierre: the man who divides us most
- The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece
- On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law
- Christendom: the triumph of a religion
- The paradoxical perfection of perfectibilité: from Rousseau to Condorcet
- Adam Ferguson on true religion, science, and moral progress
- Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests
- Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty
- The leviathan and the chimera: Gian Vincenzo Gravina’s Hobbesianism and its limits
- ‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought
- Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation
- Straddling the Imperial Meridian: Warren Hastings as an observer of change in British India
- Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein through the meanders of scientific pacifism
- Russian political philosophy: anarchy, authority, autocracy
- Hobbes on the power to punish
- Rolling transition and the role of intellectuals: the case of Hungary
- The plight of the exception: why Carl Schmitt bid farewell to Hobbes
- The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665)
- The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’
- Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world
- Reforming the law of nature: the secularisation of political thought 1523–1689
- Lord Bolingbroke’s history of British foreign policy, 1492–1753
- The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom
- Infrastructural strains on scholarly transnational collaboration in eighteenth-century Europe. The logistics of knowledge in making Thomas Mangey’s Philonis Judaei Opera 1728–42
- An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history
- Free Market: The History of an Idea
- Dugald Stewart’s empire of the mind: moral education in the late Scottish enlightenment
- The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750–1850
- The authorship of Sister Peg
- 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
- The historian, the shaman, and the werewolf
- Democracy and Tocqueville’s aesthetics of the revolution
- Life, theory, and group identity in Hannah Arendt’s thought
- Fascism as a recurring possibility: Zeev Sternhell, the anti-Enlightenment, and the intellectual history of European modernity
- Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement
- Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology
- ‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker
- Ordoliberal ideas on Europe: two paradigms of European economic integration
- On the concept of Volk in Carl Schmitt
- Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan
- Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle
- Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals
- Raymond Aron and the moral and cultural conditions of liberal democracy during war time
- The deist controversy and John Craig’s Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica (1699)
- ‘Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair
- Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late middle ages
- Rousseau on multiplying partial associations
- Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law
- Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition
- Gibbon’s Christianity: religion, reason, and the fall of Rome
- On being one’s own dominus
- Cold war liberalism in West Germany: Richard Löwenthal and ‘Western civilization’
- Hegel and the French Revolution
- Marquard Freher and the presumption of goodness in legal humanism
- Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs in Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo
- Reading Lipsius in early modern Italy: Ercole Cato and the transformation of the Politicorum Libri Sex
- Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race
- Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul