History of European Ideas

• Slavery and the fetish
  History of European Ideas05 December 2023By Miranda SpielerThe American University of Paris
• J. L. Austin: philosopher and D-Day intelligence officer
  History of European Ideas22 November 2023By Guy LongworthDepartment of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
• The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism
  History of European Ideas22 November 2023By Gabor Istvan BiroFaculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
• Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan
  History of European Ideas21 November 2023By Esben Korsgaard RasmussenLinacre College, Oxford, UK
• Human Empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800
  History of European Ideas21 November 2023By Vera KellerUniversity of Oregon
• What the fetish does to the history of art
  History of European Ideas17 November 2023By Anne LafontÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
• On Pietz doing history
  History of European Ideas16 November 2023By Tomoko MasuzawaHistory and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history
  History of European Ideas13 November 2023By Gili KligerCommittee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
• History, method and ethos: a response to the symposium on Liberalism in Dark Times
  History of European Ideas13 November 2023By Joshua L. ChernissDepartment of Government, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
• Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay
  History of European Ideas10 November 2023By Adrian BlauDepartment of Political Economy, King’s College London, London, UK
• Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times
  History of European Ideas08 November 2023By Sophie Marcotte ChénardDepartment of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae: more questions than answers?
  History of European Ideas07 November 2023By John A. SchusterCampion College, Sydney, Australia
• The West: A New History of an Old Idea
  History of European Ideas07 November 2023By Michael WintleUniversity of Amsterdam
• Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times: on the need for foundations
  History of European Ideas06 November 2023By John HallMcGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800
  History of European Ideas06 November 2023By Abigail L. SwingenTexas Tech University
• Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800
  History of European Ideas06 November 2023By Dave HitchcockCanterbury Christ Church University
• ‘On the backs of Blacks’: the fetish and how socially inferior Europeans put down Africans to prove their equality with their own oppressors
  History of European Ideas06 November 2023By J. Lorand MatoryDuke University, Durham, USA
• Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: the Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
  History of European Ideas03 November 2023By Hugo DrochonUniversity of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
• Ethos, Leninism and perspective: on Joshua Cherniss, liberalism in dark times: the liberal ethos in the twentieth century
  History of European Ideas03 November 2023By Michael RosenHarvard University, Cambridge, USA
• The hybrid reformation: a social, cultural, and intellectual history of contending forces
  History of European Ideas02 November 2023By Mark A. HutchinsonUniversity of Gloucestershire
• Is ruthlessness the enemy? On Joshua Cherniss’ Liberalism in Dark Times
  History of European Ideas01 November 2023By Alicia SteinmetzFlorida International University, Miami, USA
• ‘The natural leader of the proletariat’: Eduard Bernstein on trade unions and the path to socialist cooperation
  History of European Ideas01 November 2023By Peter GiraudoThe Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
• Atheists and atheism before the enlightenment: the English & Scottish experience
  History of European Ideas31 October 2023By Jeffrey CollinsQueen’s University, Ontario
• Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)
  History of European Ideas30 October 2023By Deborah BoyleCollege of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA
• ‘The intelligence of the people’: Marx’s early political thought and the young Hegelian concept of state
  History of European Ideas27 October 2023By Charles BarbourSchool of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia
• Hannah Arendt: a very short introduction
  History of European Ideas13 October 2023By Karin FryGeorgia Southern University
• The laws of nature and the nature of law: insights from an English rebel, 1641–57
  History of European Ideas12 October 2023By Adam ParrSmith School of Enterprise & the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Mary Shepherd: a guide
  History of European Ideas11 October 2023By Gordon GrahamPrinceton Theological Seminary Emeritus
• Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as a political thinker
  History of European Ideas10 October 2023By Joanne PaulHonorary Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History, University of Sussex, Worthing, UK
• Havel’s idea of post-democracy in a comparative perspective
  History of European Ideas10 October 2023By Marián SekerákDepartment of Security and Law, AMBIS College, Prague, Czech Republic
• The Buddhism of Wagner and Nietzsche and their indebtedness to Schopenhauer
  History of European Ideas09 October 2023By Laura Langonea University of Cambridge, UKb Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics and Applied Ethics, Research project “NET—Nietzsche’s Environmental Ethics”, Verona, Italyc Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
• Descartes in context
  History of European Ideas09 October 2023By Tarek R. DikaUniversity of Toronto
• J.S. Mill on Bentham’s incomplete mind
  History of European Ideas09 October 2023By Yanxiang ZhangSchool of Humanities and Law, North China University of Technology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
• Victoria Welby
  History of European Ideas09 October 2023By Alison StoneLancaster University
• Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment
  History of European Ideas06 October 2023By David Allen HarveyNew College of Florida, Sarasota, USA
• José Gaos, Eduardo Nicol, and the criticism of cybernetics in Mexico
  History of European Ideas30 September 2023By José Manuel Iglesias GrandaAntolín Sánchez CuervoPhilosophy Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain
• The basis for the unity of experience in the thought of Friedrich Hölderlin
  History of European Ideas21 September 2023By Hugo E. HerreraFaculty of Law and Institute of Philosophy, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
• Violence and power in the thought of Hannah Arendt
  History of European Ideas14 September 2023By JongWon Lee
• Nationalism and Northern Ireland: a rejoinder to Ian McBride on ‘ethnicity and conflict’
  History of European Ideas13 September 2023By Richard Bourke
• Florentius Schuyl and the origin of the beast-machine controversy
  History of European Ideas06 September 2023By Rienk Vermij
• The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work
  History of European Ideas06 September 2023By Mahendra Chitrarasu
• The political economy of Ireland and its counterfactuals
  History of European Ideas01 September 2023By L. S. Andersen
• Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church
  History of European Ideas29 August 2023By Ruth Coates
• A philosophy of beauty. Shaftesbury on nature, virtue, and art
  History of European Ideas28 August 2023By Laurent Jaffro
• Early British socialism and the ‘religion of the new moral world’
  History of European Ideas25 August 2023By Matilde Cazzola
• Rethinking Amidah and partisan testimony from the non-Jewish resistance member’s writings of Anna Pawełczyńska
  History of European Ideas25 August 2023By Adele Valeria Messina
• Author’s Response
  History of European Ideas23 August 2023By Gary Kates
• Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
  History of European Ideas18 August 2023By Ritchie Robertson
• Introduction to a Symposium on Gary Kates, The books that made the European Enlightenment: a history in 12 case studies
  History of European Ideas17 August 2023By R. J. W. Mills
• Counting Books in Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
  History of European Ideas17 August 2023By Alicia C. Montoya
• A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-1950
  History of European Ideas14 August 2023By Gábor István Bíró
• Enlightening Book History: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
  History of European Ideas10 August 2023By Richard B. Sher
• High hopes before the fall: Otto Bauer and Oszkár Jászi on nationality and Habsburg rule in the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, 1907–18
  History of European Ideas09 August 2023By László Bence Bari
• Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism
  History of European Ideas02 August 2023By Stephen Gaukroger
• Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe
  History of European Ideas26 July 2023By Ian Campbell
• Religious progress and perfectibility in Benjamin Constant’s enlightened liberalism
  History of European Ideas25 July 2023By John Christian Laursen
• Neither dominant nor dominated. The decolonial federalism of Albert Camus
  History of European Ideas25 July 2023By Tommaso Visone
• From secularisations to political religions
  History of European Ideas24 July 2023By Paolo Prodi
• The monarchical origins of modern liberty: the Norman Conquest and the English constitution revisited, 1771–1861
  History of European Ideas24 July 2023By William Selinger
• America’s philosopher: John Locke in American intellectual life
  History of European Ideas24 July 2023By Mark G. Spencer
• Antonio Gramsci: an intellectual biography
  History of European Ideas24 July 2023By Takahiro Chino
• La République de Harrington dans la France des Lumières et de la Révolution
  History of European Ideas21 July 2023By Ann Thomson
• An apologist for English colonialism? The use of America in Hobbes’s writings
  History of European Ideas21 July 2023By Jiangmei Liu
• The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’
  History of European Ideas21 July 2023By Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo
• Liberal constitution, civic enlightenment, and colonies: Jeremy Bentham on the Spanish empire
  History of European Ideas20 July 2023By Brian Chien-Kang Chen
• Liberalism in Dark Times. The liberal ethos in the twentieth century
  History of European Ideas20 July 2023By Iain Stewart
• Palimpsestic political thought: the intellectual impact of the French succession crisis, 1584
  History of European Ideas19 July 2023By Sophie Nicholls
• The sacred in the civil law: the Homo Sacer and Sacratae Leges of the legal humanists
  History of European Ideas19 July 2023By Noah Dauber
• The monarchy and the Fascist regime in Italy
  History of European Ideas17 July 2023By David D. Roberts
• Symposium on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules
  History of European Ideas12 July 2023By Hugo Drochon
• Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end
  History of European Ideas12 July 2023By Pini Ifergan
• Law and moral theology in Christian Europe: the limits of sacralization in the late works of Paolo Prodi
  History of European Ideas12 July 2023By Vincenzo Lavenia
• Conservative thinkers: from all souls college Oxford
  History of European Ideas11 July 2023By Mark Garnett
• The languages of monarchism in interwar Yugoslavia, 1918–1941: variations on a theme
  History of European Ideas11 July 2023By Cody James Inglis
• Monarchy with ‘An air of republicanism spread throughout’: the reformed monarchy of the marquis d’Argenson
  History of European Ideas11 July 2023By Andrew Jainchill
• Sacrifice and the limits of sovereignty 1589–1613
  History of European Ideas11 July 2023By Sarah Mortimer
• The concept of mixed monarchy and the monarchical principle in the study of modern state systems
  History of European Ideas10 July 2023By Marcin Michał Wiszowaty
• Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms
  History of European Ideas07 July 2023By Ben Holland
• The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government
  History of European Ideas07 July 2023By Simon Pelletier
• To represent a people: Carl Schmitt and the monarchical principle
  History of European Ideas06 July 2023By Joshua Smeltzer
• An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy
  History of European Ideas04 July 2023By Mauro Lenci
• Myth, sacrifice, and the critique of capitalism in dialectic of enlightenment
  History of European Ideas04 July 2023By Charles H. Clavey
• Reviewing women’s philosophical works during the French revolution: the case of P.-L. Roederer
  History of European Ideas04 July 2023By Sandrine Bergès
• The idea of the common good in the young Marx and nonutilitarian consequentialism
  History of European Ideas04 July 2023By Vasil Gluchman
• ‘The Greeks Call It Horme’: Hobbes’ anti-Aristotelian account of human action
  History of European Ideas03 July 2023By Erfan Xia
• The Japanese philosophy of myth during the early Shōwa era
  History of European Ideas30 June 2023By Fernando Wirtz
• Beyond a ‘politics of warning’ against populism in Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules
  History of European Ideas10 June 2023By Chris Meckstroth
• Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion
  History of European Ideas10 June 2023By Antony Black
• Popular politics and the hard borders of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules
  History of European Ideas02 June 2023By Jason Frank
• Not just defending, but deepening democracy: a discussion around Democracy Rules
  History of European Ideas02 June 2023By Jan-Werner Müller
• The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules
  History of European Ideas31 May 2023By Martin Conway
• The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules
  History of European Ideas31 May 2023By Martin ConwayFaculty of History, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Exclusion, moderation and the game of party politics in Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy rules
  History of European Ideas30 May 2023By Nadia Urbinati
• Claude Lefort: the myth of the One
  History of European Ideas23 May 2023By Nicole Hochner
• Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen
  History of European Ideas22 May 2023By Christopher Adair-Toteff
• Machiavelli: from radical to reactionary
  History of European Ideas19 May 2023By Maurizio Viroli
• Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography
  History of European Ideas19 May 2023By Neil G. Robertson
• The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth
  History of European Ideas10 May 2023By Adam Kjellgren
• Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century
  History of European Ideas03 May 2023By Carmen Lea Dege
• Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series
  History of European Ideas03 May 2023By Fabio Guidali
• Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne: an introduction
  History of European Ideas03 May 2023By Paolo Pitari
• The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France
  History of European Ideas03 May 2023By Kevin Duong
• Thomas Reid and the University
  History of European Ideas03 May 2023By Christopher A. Shrock
• Derrida and history: a failed approach
  History of European Ideas26 April 2023By Mihail Evans
• Robespierre: the man who divides us most
  History of European Ideas24 April 2023By Sylvana Tomaselli
• The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece
  History of European Ideas24 April 2023By Allan Gabriel Cardoso dos Santos
• On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law
  History of European Ideas21 April 2023By Dan Edelstein
• Christendom: the triumph of a religion
  History of European Ideas20 April 2023By Anthony Black
• The paradoxical perfection of perfectibilité: from Rousseau to Condorcet
  History of European Ideas15 April 2023By John T. Scott
• Adam Ferguson on true religion, science, and moral progress
  History of European Ideas11 April 2023By Rudmer Bijlsma
• Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests
  History of European Ideas11 April 2023By Ryan Walter
• Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty
  History of European Ideas06 April 2023By Jiani Fan
• The leviathan and the chimera: Gian Vincenzo Gravina’s Hobbesianism and its limits
  History of European Ideas06 April 2023By Nathaniel K. Gilmore
• ‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought
  History of European Ideas31 March 2023By Nayeli L. Riano
• Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation
  History of European Ideas29 March 2023By Kajo Kubala
• Straddling the Imperial Meridian: Warren Hastings as an observer of change in British India
  History of European Ideas21 March 2023By Joshua Ehrlich
• Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein through the meanders of scientific pacifism
  History of European Ideas18 March 2023By Claudio Giulio Anta
• Russian political philosophy: anarchy, authority, autocracy
  History of European Ideas15 March 2023By Kåre Johan Mjør
• Hobbes on the power to punish
  History of European Ideas13 March 2023By Mariana Kuhn de Oliveira
• Rolling transition and the role of intellectuals: the case of Hungary
  History of European Ideas11 March 2023By Luca Kristóf
• The plight of the exception: why Carl Schmitt bid farewell to Hobbes
  History of European Ideas11 March 2023By Mariano Croce
• The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665)
  History of European Ideas06 March 2023By Niall Dilucia
• The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’
  History of European Ideas25 February 2023By Richard B. Sher
• Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world
  History of European Ideas29 January 2023By James A. T. Lancaster
• Reforming the law of nature: the secularisation of political thought 1523–1689
  History of European Ideas29 January 2023By Heikki Haara
• Lord Bolingbroke’s history of British foreign policy, 1492–1753
  History of European Ideas29 January 2023By Doohwan Ahn
• The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom
  History of European Ideas29 January 2023By Caroline Ashcroft
• Infrastructural strains on scholarly transnational collaboration in eighteenth-century Europe. The logistics of knowledge in making Thomas Mangey’s Philonis Judaei Opera 1728–42
  History of European Ideas27 January 2023By Jacob Orrje
• An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history
  History of European Ideas27 January 2023By Renzhi Li
• Free Market: The History of an Idea
  History of European Ideas27 January 2023By Ian Kumekawa
• Dugald Stewart’s empire of the mind: moral education in the late Scottish enlightenment
  History of European Ideas27 January 2023By Ian Stewart
• The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750–1850
  History of European Ideas26 January 2023By Morgan Golf-French
• The authorship of Sister Peg
  History of European Ideas22 January 2023By David R. Raynor
• 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
  History of European Ideas11 January 2023By Luca Settimo
• The historian, the shaman, and the werewolf
  History of European Ideas29 December 2022By Robert Fredona
• Democracy and Tocqueville’s aesthetics of the revolution
  History of European Ideas29 December 2022By Jin-gon Park
• Life, theory, and group identity in Hannah Arendt’s thought
  History of European Ideas23 December 2022By Caroline Ashcroft
• Fascism as a recurring possibility: Zeev Sternhell, the anti-Enlightenment, and the intellectual history of European modernity
  History of European Ideas21 December 2022By Tommaso Giordani
• Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement
  History of European Ideas20 December 2022By Lucian Staiano-Daniels

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