The European Legacy

• When “Genghis Khan Joined Hands with an Eugen Fischer”
  The European Legacy02 September 2024By Thomas Klikauer Danny Antonelli a School of Business, Western Sydney University, Parramatta City Campus,169 Macquarie Street, Parramatta NSW 2150, Australiab Independent Scholar, Hamburg, Germany
• The Debate between Cleanthes and Philo Regarding the First Illustrative Analogy in Part 3 of Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
  The European Legacy27 August 2024By Stanley Tweyman Departments of Humanities and Graduate Philosophy, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, CanadaStanley Tweyman is University Professor at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Descartes and Hume. He has also published on William Wollaston and George Berkeley, and on the philosophy of religion.
• Scruton, Wagner, and the “Re-enchantment of the World”
  The European Legacy26 August 2024By Jürgen Lawrenz Department of Philosophy, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
• Butler and Hume on Religion
  The European Legacy19 August 2024By David White Department of Philosophy, St John Fisher University, 3690 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14618, USADavid White did his PhD in philosophy at Cornell University and then spent 40 years teaching philosophy, first at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and then at St. John Fisher University, USA. He has written a monograph on, and edited the works of, Bishop Butler. Now retired, he continues to try to know Butler better and, as president of the Bishop Butler Society Ltd., to make Butler better known. He is a past president of the New York State Philosophical Association.
• Hume’s Philosophy of Religion
  The European Legacy19 August 2024By Gordon B. Mower Department of Philosophy, Brigham Young University, 4091 JFSB, Provo, UT 84602, USAGordon B. Mower is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He writes on early modern philosophy, moral and political philosophy, and Asian philosophy. He is the author of over a dozen articles, his most recent being “Classical Chinese Legalism and Global Justice,” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy (2024).
• The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War
  The European Legacy19 August 2024By Lavinia Stan St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
• AfD-Masterpläne: Die rechtsextreme Partei und die Zerstörung der Demokratie [The AfD’s Masterplan: A Right-Wing Extremist Party and the Destruction of Democracy]
  The European Legacy19 August 2024By Thomas Klikauer Western Sydney University, Australia
• The Trojan Horse in the Tribal Classroom: How Culture Wars Are Waged on the Frontlines of Education
  The European Legacy15 August 2024By Karl W. Schweizer New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• Unprecedented? How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy
  The European Legacy15 August 2024By Malcolm Sawyer University of Leeds, UK
• On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
  The European Legacy15 August 2024By J.-Guy Lalande St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
• Hume, Laws of Nature, and Miracles
  The European Legacy13 August 2024By Nathan M. Otteman Daniel E. Flage a Independent Scholar, James Madison University, 425 St Ida Cir., Lafayette, CO 80026, USAb Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University, Cleveland Hall, MSC 8006, 61 East Grace Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USANathan M. Otteman, MA, graduated cum laude from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His MA thesis, “Panpsychism v Emergentism: An Investigation into Strawson’s Panpsychism” (2015), took aim at the tenability of panpsychism as a theory of consciousness. He received his BA from James Madison University, USA, in 2012.Daniel E. Flage, PhD, is the author of Berkeley’s Doctrine of Notions (1987), David Hume’s Theory of Mind (1990), Descartes and Method, with Clarence A. Bonnen (1999), Berkeley (2014), and of numerous articles.
• David Hume on Suicide and the Value of Human Life: A European Legacy
  The European Legacy06 August 2024By Ton Vink Independent Scholar, Ommershofselaan 10, Velp 6881 RT, The NetherlandsTon Vink wrote his PhD thesis on David Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and recently published Een leven als ‘man of letters’. Biografie van David Hume (2022). For more than twenty years he ran a philosophical practice specializing in end-of-life decisions (www.ninewells.nl; tonvink@ninewells.nl). Accused of assisting with suicide he was acquitted by the Court of Amsterdam in 2007. He is one of the main contributors, in writing and as a counselor, to the Dutch euthanasia debate, and editor of the Dutch journal Filosofie & Praktijk, published by Amsterdam University Press.
• The Neo-Calvinist Strain in Hume’s Philosophy of Religion
  The European Legacy06 August 2024By Miguel A. Badía Cabrera Urb. Dos Pinos, 773 Calle Vesta, San Juan, PR 00923, Puerto RicoMiguel A. Badía Cabrera is professor (now retired) at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico. His main areas of interest are the philosophy of religion and early modern philosophy, Descartes and Hume, in particular Hume’s philosophy of religion and ethics, and the Scottish Enlightenment, especially Francis Hutcheson, Robert Wallace, and George Campbell. In various articles and books, he has also pondered over Hume’s complex stance concerning Calvinist theology and ethics.
• In a Strange Country
  The European Legacy02 August 2024By Wade L. Robison Philosophy Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, 23 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USAWade L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is a founding member of the Hume Society and was its President for sixteen years. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on David Hume at Dartmouth College in 1990 and has directed numerous conferences on Hume. He has published extensively in philosophy of law, David Hume, and practical and professional ethics. His book Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy (University Press of New England, 1994) won the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize in Social Science and Public Policy. His latest book is the second edition of Ethics Within Engineering: An Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2024).
• Laws, Darkness, and Resurrection: Exceptions and Violations in Hume’s Account of Miracles
  The European Legacy02 August 2024By C. M. Lorkowski Philosophy Department, Bowling Green State University,1001 E Wooster St., Bowling Green, OH 43403, USAC. M. Lorkowski earned his PhD at Purdue University with a dissertation examining the interplay between Hume’s account of causation and his philosophy of religion. He is currently Assistant Teaching Professor at Bowling Green State University and serves as the eighteenth-century British philosophy editor at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Why Hume’s Censure of the Monkish Virtues Is Not Question-Begging
  The European Legacy02 August 2024By Jennifer Welchman Ronald Wilburn a Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7, Canadab Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, CanadaJennifer Welchman is a professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta who specializes in ethics, the history of ethics, and environmental ethics. Her publications include articles on Hume’s moral philosophy and an edited collection, The Practice of Virtue: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Virtue Ethics (Hackett, 2006).Ronald Wilburn is professor emeritus (philosophy) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, and currently an adjunct professor (philosophy) at the University of Calgary, Canada. He specializes in metaphysics and epistemology, the history of Western philosophy, and value theory.
• Redemption, Reconciliation, Authenticity: Schopenhauer and Adorno
  The European Legacy02 August 2024By Jürgen Lawrenz Department of Philosophy, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
• Erasmus and the Jews: Revisiting the Narrative
  The European Legacy31 July 2024By Nathan Ron School of History, The University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
• All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
  The European Legacy26 July 2024By Adi Ravash-Sorek University of Haifa, Israel
• A Theory of Thinking and Interpersonal Communication
  The European Legacy02 July 2024By Simone Raudino HEC, 1 Rue de la Libération, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, Paris, FranceSimone Raudino received his Honours degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 2012 and PhD in International Political Economy from the University of Hong Kong in 2014. He is co-founder of the non-profit organization Bridging Gaps, which promotes intercultural, inter-faith and inter-ethnic dialogue, a visiting professor at the Kyiv School of Economics, and a lecturer at HEC Paris. His publications include Development Aid and Sustainable Economic Growth in Africa: The Limits of Western and Chinese Engagements (Palgrave, 2016); and Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, co-edited with Patricia Sohn (University of Michigan Press, 2022).
• On Ways of Looking at Europe’s Troubled Geist, Part 2: Introduction
  The European Legacy01 July 2024By Gesine Palmer The Catholic Academy in Berlin, Hannoversche Street 5, 10115 Berlin, Germany
• Machiavelli on the Intention and Utility of The Prince
  The European Legacy26 June 2024By William Wood Catholic Theological Faculty, Charles University, Thákurova 3, Prague 6, 160 00, Czech RepublicWilliam Wood is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic Theological Faculty at Charles University in Prague. His interests include Nietzsche, the philosophy of religion and political philosophy.
• William Penn: Political Writings,
  The European Legacy19 June 2024By Tim Harris Brown University, USA
• Discourse Theory, Nodal Points, and Stereoscopic Optics on Justice
  The European Legacy19 June 2024By Kalli Drousioti Department of Education Sciences, Unicaf University, Limassol, CyprusKalli Drousioti received her PhD in Philosophy of Education at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.. Her research interests include discourse analysis, ethnic identity, cosmopolitanism, patriotism, utopia and educational ideals. Her publications have appeared in various Greek and international scholarly journals. She currently teaches at Unicaf University.
• Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture
  The European Legacy18 June 2024By Wayne Cristaudo Charles Darwin University, Australia
• Posterity: Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci
  The European Legacy18 June 2024By Alessandro Carrera University of Houston, USA
• The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy
  The European Legacy17 June 2024By Jeff Noonan University of Windsor, Canada
• Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022
  The European Legacy17 June 2024By Douglas J. Cremer Woodbury University, USA
• Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias
  The European Legacy17 June 2024By Douglas J. Cremer Woodbury University, USA
• Ethical Dilemmas in the Global Defense Industry
  The European Legacy17 June 2024By Douglas J. Cremer Woodbury University, USA
• Beyond the Legacy of Absolutism: Re-examining Jean Bodin’s Idea of Anti-Tyranny Violence
  The European Legacy13 June 2024By Jiangmei Liu School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, UKJiangmei Liu is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her main field of research centres on Hobbes, Bodin, Grotius, Suárez, Vitoria, and Gentili, and specifically on how their ideas of natural law and the state influenced their views of war and international law. She recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis on Hobbes’s theories of natural law and war. Her latest publication is “An Apologist for English Colonialism? The Use of America in Hobbes’s Writings,” History of European Ideas 50, no. 1 (2024): 17–33.
• Resisting Reduction: Designing Our Complex Futures with Machines
  The European Legacy11 June 2024By Karl W. Schweizer New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
  The European Legacy11 June 2024By Evan F. Kuehn North Park University, USA
• Antonín J. Liehm: The Life and Work of a Twentieth-Century Journalist and Public Intellectual
  The European Legacy31 May 2024By Francis D. Raška Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, U Kříže 8, 158 00 Prague 5, Czech RepublicFrancis D. Raška is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Department of North American Studies, Institute of International Studies, Charles University in Prague. He also teaches at the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, at the Anglo-American University in Prague. Among his scholarly interests are dissent during the Cold War, human rights, and transatlantic relations.
• Criticism After Theory from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf
  The European Legacy29 May 2024By Jiayuan Zuo Pengfei Zhang Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
• From Natural Law to Relativism: Joseph Ratzinger on the Normative Transformation since Kant
  The European Legacy22 May 2024By George JosephDepartment of Philosophy, University of Szeged, 13 Dugonics Square, Szeged H-6720, HungaryGeorge Joseph gained his PhD in philosophy from the University of Szeged, Hungary. The title of his dissertation is “Nature and Reason as the Sources of Law in Joseph Ratzinger’s Evaluation of Relativism.” Currently he is a CREATE Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the St. Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University in Rome.
• Landmarks in the Evolution of Liberal Thought: Freedom, Plurality, Knowledge
  The European Legacy23 April 2024By Gal GersonSchool of Political Science, The University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave., Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, IsraelGal Gerson teaches political theory and the history of political thought at the University of Haifa’s School of Political Sciences. He is the author of several articles on liberalism, gender, and the interface between political thought and psychoanalysis, and several books, including Individuality and Ideology in British Object Relations (Routledge, 2021).
• The Lives of a Democratic Aristocrat
  The European Legacy17 April 2024By Wayne CristaudoSchool of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Casuarina NT 0909, Australia
• Nazis All The Way Down: The Myth of the Moral Modern Germany
  The European Legacy16 April 2024By Thomas KlikauerWestern Sydney University, Australia
• A Timeline of the Technological Project
  The European Legacy12 April 2024By Nick CapaldiLoyola University, 6363 St Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70118 USA
• Philosophy, Science, and History
  The European Legacy11 April 2024By Nick CapaldiLoyola University, 6363 St Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70118 USA
• Europe at a Crossroads and the Political Relevance of Intellectual Dialogue
  The European Legacy11 April 2024By Patrice CanivezPhilosophy Department, University of Lille III, 42 Rue Paul Duez, Lille 59000, FrancePatrice Canivez is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Lille, France. He is co-editor with Sequoya Yiaueki of the series “Etudes weiliennes” (Weilian Studies) at the “Presses Universitaires du Septentrion” (Lille). He has published books and articles on Éric Weil, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Rousseau, Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault, as well as on problems of contemporary political philosophy. His most recent book is the edited collection with Gilbert Kirscher and Sylvie Patron of Eric Weil. Philosopher avec Critique. Articles et notes critiques publiés dans la revue Critique (Vrin, 2024).
• Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
  The European Legacy03 April 2024By Laurie M. JohnsonKansas State University, USA
• A Valediction of a Twentieth-Century Sage
  The European Legacy27 March 2024By Francis D. RaškaCharles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, U Kříže 8, 158 00 Prague, Czech Republic
• Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude
  The European Legacy26 March 2024By Jeremiah AlbergInternational Christian University, Japan
• The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthrough
  The European Legacy26 March 2024By David RoweMainz University, Germany
• A Date with Language
  The European Legacy26 March 2024By Hans J. RindisbacherPomona College, USA
• Wreckanomics: Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything
  The European Legacy26 March 2024By Laurie M. JohnsonKansas State University, USA
• Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World
  The European Legacy26 March 2024By William M. HawleyIndependent Scholar, USA
• Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art
  The European Legacy26 March 2024By William M. HawleyIndependent Scholar, USA
• Homer as the Maker of His Own Myth, or The Enduring Enigma of the Invisible Poet
  The European Legacy25 March 2024By Jürgen LawrenzDepartment of Philosophy, Sydney University, Sydney Australia
• How to Think Like a Philosopher
  The European Legacy22 March 2024By George CrowderFlinders University, Australia
• Human Flourishing in a Technological World: A Theological Perspective
  The European Legacy22 March 2024By Lee TrepanierSamford University, USA
• Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History
  The European Legacy22 March 2024By Lee TrepanierSamford University, USA
• Horror, Film and Otherness
  The European Legacy22 March 2024By Robert BeltonUniversity of British Columbia, Canada
• East versus West in Europe: Enchantment and Disenchantment
  The European Legacy22 March 2024By Theodor Damiana Academy of Romanian Scientists, 3 Ilfov, 050044, Bucharest, Romaniab Metropolitan College of New York, 60 West Street, New York, NY 10006, USATheodor Damian is a theologian, writer and editor. He is Professor Emeritus of Human Services and Education at the Metropolitan College of New York; the recipient of several awards for his work in the United States and in Romania; the founder and president of the Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality in New York; editor of Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, a review of Romanian spirituality and culture, as well as of Symposium and Romanian Medievalia. In addition, Theodor Damian is Senior Fellow of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Pasadena, CA, and of the Sophia Institute, New York, as well as President of the American branch of the Academy of Romanian Scientists. His many publications in English and Romanian include Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poetry and His Human Face in It; Life and Mind: Perspectives on the Human Condition (edited with Richard Grallo and Bert Breiner); The Isar Sign; Prayers in Hell; Introduction to Christianity: The First Millennium; Philosophy and Literature: A Hermeneutic of the Metaphysical Challenge; and The Icons: Theological and Spiritual Dimensions According to St. Theodore of Studion.
• On Ways of Looking at Europe’s Troubled Geist: Introduction
  The European Legacy21 March 2024By Edna RosenthalKibbutzim College of Education, 149 Namir Rd., Tel Aviv, 6250769 Israel
• Travelling with Alexis de Tocqueville
  The European Legacy19 March 2024By K. Steven VincentDepartment of History, North Carolina State University, Box 8108, Raleigh, NC 27695–8108, USA
• Saying ‘No’ to Power: From Diasporic Knowledge to Reclaiming Ethical Monotheism
  The European Legacy11 March 2024By Gesine PalmerThe Catholic Academy in Berlin, Hannoversche Steet 5, 10115 Berlin, GermanyGesine Palmer, PhD, is a freelance writer and speaker with the Büro für besondere Texte Berlin. Since 2021 she has been working at the Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora at the Catholic Academy in Berlin. Earlier in her career she taught and worked as a researcher of theology and history of religions at the Free University of Berlin and at The Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (FEST), Heidelberg. Dr. Palmer is a member of the Scientific Board of the International Franz Rosenzweig Society and of the Yearbook’s Editorial Board. Her publications include, among others, Fragen nach dem einen Gott (ed.) (Mohr/Siebeck, 2007); Tausend Tode. Über Trauer reden (PalmArtPress, 2020); Vielfalt statt Konsens in den Religionen Schwarzach (Vier-Türme-Verlag, 2021); “Othering Himself: On Rosenzweig’s Self-Positioning Towards Christianity,” in the Rosenzweig Yearbook 13, Transcendence and Revelation (Alber-Nomos, 2023).
• Thinking Originally with Wordsworth and Kant
  The European Legacy08 March 2024By Michael J. NethDepartment of English, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 37132 USA
• “Did Descartes Read Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism?” A “Sceptical” Response
  The European Legacy06 March 2024By Paul O’MahoneyUniversity of Limerick, Castletroy, Co. Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
• Theatre as a Transcultural Event: Notes on European Identity
  The European Legacy29 February 2024By Heinz-Uwe HausDepartment of Theatre and Dance, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USAHeinz-Uwe Haus is Professor of Theatre at the University of Delaware, USA, a stage director, and a Cultural Studies and Theatre scholar. His literary works are published under his psyudonym, Jean Bodin. His theatrical productions, ranging from the classical Greek plays, plays by Shakespeare and the German classics, to the plays of Brecht and the Expressionists, have been performed in many countries around the world, including, amongh others, Germany and the United States, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and Finland.
• “The soul can never remain a vacuum”: The Chinese Reception of A. J. Heschel
  The European Legacy29 February 2024By C. K. Martin ChungDepartment of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
• The Romantic Fragment and the Monumental: The Rise and Fall of the Sublime in Western Music
  The European Legacy22 February 2024By Ali YansoriDepartment of Philosophy, Palacký University Olomouc, Křížkovského 12, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech RepublicAli Yansori is a philosopher and musicologist. In musicology, his research aims to understand aesthetics from an ethical viewpoint, while his inquiry in philosophy, through a metaethical lens, addresses the ethical constraints of engaging in philosophical thought. His inclinations in philosophy lean toward existentialism, mysticism, and irrationalism, whereas in musicology he is drawn to late-Romanticism and aesthetics. His most recent article on music is “Alexander Scriabin as a Russian Cosmist,” Studies in East European Thought (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09590-6.
• Did Descartes Read Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism? A Preliminary Study
  The European Legacy21 February 2024By Ayumu TamuraNational Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, 866 Nakane, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki 312-8508, JapanAyumu Tamura, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Japan. His main research subject is Descartes’s metaphysics, especially the cogito argument. His most recent publication is “Trace of Stoic Logic in Descartes: Stoic axiōma and Descartes’s pronuntiatum in the Second Meditation,” The Seventeenth Century (Published online: 30 October 2023).
• Psychosocial Explanations of Spiritual Experiences: A Taylorian Critique
  The European Legacy21 February 2024By Jocelyn MelnykJames CresswellBethanne GiesbrechtDepartment of Social Sciences, Ambrose University, 150 Ambrose Circle SW, Calgary Alberta, Canada
• Reading Carefully Augustine’s De Magistro
  The European Legacy19 February 2024By T. Brian MooneyMark Nowackia School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Casuarina NT 0909, Australiab Singapore Management University, 81 Victoria St, Singapore 188065T. Brian Mooney is a retired academic. His last position was as Professor of Philosophy at Charles Darwin University, Australia. His publications include nine books in philosophy (including Responding to Terrorism, Ashgate, 2008; Aquinas, Education and the East {with Mark Nowacki}Springer, 2013; Critical and Creative Thinking: An Introduction to Ordinary Language Reasoning, T. Brian Mooney, John Williams and Steven Burik, McGraw-Hill, New York, London, Singapore, January 2016) and over 80 refereed publications in major presses and journals. He is currently full-time carer for two adorable grandchildren.Mark Nowacki was a chess prodigy, and at 12 taught lab techniques to postgraduate students in marine biology. His first book (on databases) was published at 16. Beginning as a Wharton finance major, Mark naturally ended up with a PhD in medieval philosophy. He taught at Singapore Management University for 13 years. In 2005, he founded LogicMills, a school dedicated to teaching and assessing twenty-first-century skills through games.
• The Meaning of “Olympica” in Descartes
  The European Legacy15 February 2024By Paul O’MahoneyUniversity of Limerick, Castletroy, Co. Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
• More Trouble for a Troubled Geist: Finding Certainty in the Uncertain through Creative Unknowing
  The European Legacy13 February 2024By Frank HahnIndependent Scholar, Spree-Athen e.V., Kaiser-Friedrich-Str.18, 10585 Berlin, GermanyFrank Hahn is a professional mediator and freelance author and essayist based in Berlin. He is the chairman of the cultural association “Spree-Athen e.V.”, which organizes public lectures on philosophical, religious, historical and literary subjects, with a special emphasis on Jewish studies and intercultural philosophy. His book Der Sprache vertrauen, der Totalitätentsagen – Annäherungen an Franz RosenzweigsSprachdenken [Trusting the language—renouncing the totality: Approaches to Franz Rosenzweig’s speech] was published in 2013.
• A Hermeneutic Approach to the Formation of a Secular Culture in Modern Israel
  The European Legacy06 February 2024By Ruvik RosenthalThe Open University of Israel, 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107, IsraelRuvik Rosenthal, PhD, is an award winning writer and leading expert on modern Hebrew. Alongside his career as a journalist, editor, and columnist, he was head of Journalism Studies at the Open University of Israel for almost two decades. His weekly column The Language Arena, launched more than 25 years ago, continues to appear on his website (www.ruvik.co.il). His many (Hebrew) publications include: Dictionary of Israeli Slang; The Lexicon of Life: Israeli Sociolects & Jargon; A Comprehensive Dictionary of Hebrew Idioms and Phrases; Old Language, New Language: The Biblical Foundations of Modern Hebrew; Israeli Army Talk: A Portrait of the Israeli Military Language; and My Life, My Language. His other books range in subject matter from the Israeli kibbutz, war and bereavement, stories of the early years of Tel Aviv, children’s books, and a novel based on his family history, Blumenstrasse 22.
• WORDS, WORDS, SDROW—and alas, WORDS: The Fate of Words and Language in Turbulent Times
  The European Legacy06 February 2024By Victor CastellaniDepartment of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Denver, 2000 East Asbury Avenue, Denver CO 80208-0931, USAVictor Castellani is Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA, where since 1971 he has taught in the Department of Languages and Literatures. His primary specialties lie in the study of ancient Greek and Latin epic, tragedy and comedy as literature and theater, mythology and religion, and iconography. Representative publications: “Everything to Do with Dionysus: Urdrama, Euripidean Melodrama, and Tragedy,” Themes in Drama 14 (1992): 1–16; “Captive Captor Freed: The National Theater of Ancient Rome,” Drama: Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption 3 (1995): 51–69; “Athena and Friends: One Among the Greek Religions,” in Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, ed. M. P. J. Dillon, 51–78 (Amsterdam: Hakkert 1996); “Little Ajax, Odysseus, and Divine ‘Wraths’,” Classical Bulletin 81.2 (2005): 107–30; “Epic Aging: Growing Up and Growing Old in Homer and Virgil,” Zbornik, Classical Journal of Matica Srpska 20 (2018): 71–106; “Euripides’ Alcestis,” in Oxford Bibliographies: Classics (Oxford University Press, 2023).
• In Memoriam: J.G.A. Pocock (1924–2023)
  The European Legacy02 February 2024By Cary J. NedermanDepartment of Political Science, Texas A&M University, 4348 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4348, USA
• In Search of the Philosopher’s Faith
  The European Legacy22 January 2024By Edward AndrewDepartment of Political Science, University of Toronto, 100 St George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S3G3, Canada
• The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus
  The European Legacy19 January 2024By Stanley ShostakUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA
• The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
  The European Legacy18 January 2024By James AlexanderBilkent University, Turkey
• Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge
  The European Legacy18 January 2024By James AlexanderBilkent University, Turkey
• Universalism and Historicism: A Conflicting Inheritance of the Enlightenment
  The European Legacy16 January 2024By Benedikt HallerIndependent Scholar, Berlin, GermanyDr. Benedikt Haller is a retired German diplomat. His postings included Moscow, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Washington, Paris, Tel Aviv, and Rome. His professional focus was on strategic, disarmament and East-West issues.
• Kulturwissenschaft in Dark Times: Ernst Cassirer
  The European Legacy12 January 2024By Michael Edward MooreDepartment of History, University of Iowa, 280 Schaeffer Hall, 52240, USA
• “Walking Together”: Can Racism Be Overcome by a Postsecular Spirituality?
  The European Legacy12 January 2024By Douglas J. CremerThe College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Woodbury University, 7500 Glenoaks Boulevard, Burbank, CA, 91103 USADr. Douglas Cremer’s main research interests are European and Asian intellectual, political, and social history, specifically German, Russian, and Chinese history, both ancient and modern; European continental philosophy; theories of race, gender, political violence, and terrorism; labor and women’s history; Catholic and Christian theology and history. His writings and reviews have been published in The European Legacy, Worship, Catholic Historical Review, Journal of Church and State, Journal of the History of Ideas and America: The Jesuit Review. His most recent works include studies of liturgical leadership and community, patriarchy and religion, workplace wellbeing, Catholic feminism, and justice and reconciliation in the Catholic Church.
• Martin Luther: The Dark Side?
  The European Legacy11 January 2024By Karl W. SchweizerFederated Department of History, New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982, USA
• The Crisis of Transcendent Values: Higher Education at a Crossroads
  The European Legacy11 January 2024By Laurie M. JohnsonDepartment of Political Science, Kansas State University, 802 Mid Campus Dr. South, 101D Calvin Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USALaurie M. Johnson is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Primary Texts Certificate at Kansas State University, USA. She is the author of seven books and numerous book chapters and articles. Most of her work has involved developing a thorough understanding and critique of classical liberal theory, and includes works on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Her most recent book, Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right: The Political Thought of Carl Jung, was published in 2019 by Routledge. She is currently working on a new book, The Gap in God’s Country: Towards Repairing Our Rural/Urban Divide, which will be published by Wipf & Stock. Her teaching includes courses on the history of political philosophy, ideologies, and environmental political thought. Johnson is a co-founder of The Maurin Academy and provides political philosophy and political theology content for the Maurin Academy weekly on her Political Philosophy YouTube channel, currently with 22,000 subscribers and over 100,000 hours of watch time, and its associated podcast.
• Spengler and the Sunset on the European Geist
  The European Legacy11 January 2024By Jürgen LawrenzDepartment of Philosophy, Sydney University, Camperdown NSW 2006, AustraliaJürgen Lawrenz gained his PhD on the philosophy of Leibniz at Sydney University, Australia, with his thesis on “Leibnizian Double-Ontology” initiating a new category in Leibniz scholarship. He has since published five books on philosophy (Art and the Platonic Matrix; Life & Mind—A Philosophical Quest; Leibniz—The Nature of Reality and the Reality of Nature; Leibniz: Prophet of New Era Science; and Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony: Essays and Models), as well as a three-volume survey entitled The Metamorphoses of Philosophy), all published by Cambridge Scholars.
• The Role of the University in the Demise of Democracy
  The European Legacy11 January 2024By Wayne CristaudoSchool of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Casuarina NT 0909, AustraliaWayne Cristaudo is a retired Professor of Political Science who specialises in the history of political and social thought and institutions. He is co-editor of the European Legacy. His publications include Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy; Baudelaire Contra Benjamin: A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics, coauthored with BeiBei Guan; Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy; Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged.
• Volatile States in International Politics
  The European Legacy28 December 2023By Karl W. SchweizerNew Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• The Apocalyptic Life of a Mephistophelian Zelig
  The European Legacy27 December 2023By Wayne CristaudoFaculty of Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Casuarina, NT 0909, Australia
• Democracy and Representation: The Meaning of Eric Voegelin’s Theory of Representation
  The European Legacy22 December 2023By Lee TrepanierSamford University, USA
• Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
  The European Legacy22 December 2023By Evan F. KuehnNorth Park University, USA
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulating Subliminal AI Systems
  The European Legacy20 December 2023By Zhonghua WuLe Chenga Hangzhou City University, People’s Republic of Chinab Zhejiang University, People’s Republic of China
• On the Concept of Care in J. S. Mill’s Liberal Utilitarianism
  The European Legacy18 December 2023By Donghye KimUnderwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of KoreaDonghye Kim, PhD, is a lecturer and researcher in Underwood International College and the Department of Social Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research focuses on liberalism and care ethics with a particular emphasis on their complementary relationship and its implications for political theory and political life.
• The Crisis of Legitimacy
  The European Legacy24 November 2023By James MenschFaculty of Humanities, Charles University, Pátkova 2137/5, 182 00 Prague 8 - Libeň, Czech RepublicJames Mensch is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He is the author of fifteen books, the most recent being Husserl’s Phenomenology, published by Springer Verlag in 2023 as part of its Phaenomenologica series. He has published over a 100 scholarly articles, and is a member of the Central European Institute of Philosophy.
• Descartes on Immortality and Animals
  The European Legacy22 November 2023By Stephen H. DanielDepartment of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843 USAStephen H. Daniel retired as Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University in College Station in 2023. In forty years at A&M, he was Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence, wrote five books on John Toland, myth and modern philosophy, Jonathan Edwards, George Berkeley, and Continental thought, edited three others, published sixty-six articles, and received numerous teaching and research awards. From 2006 to 2016 he was President of the International Berkeley Society.
• The Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society
  The European Legacy20 November 2023By John M. BublicBarton College, USA
• Notes on Picasso’s Guernica in Context
  The European Legacy20 November 2023By Michael YoungNathalie HagerRobert Beltona Okanagan University College, 1000 KLO Rd., Kelowna, BC, Canada V1Y 4X8b Department of Creative Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, CCS 168, 1148 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, Canada V1V 1V7Michael Young, MEd, began teaching art in several high schools before joining Okanagan University College in Kelowna, BC, Canada, where his teaching focused on ceramic sculpture and art theory. His central academic interest continues to be to understand the relationship between the major indigenous cultures in the Americas and their visual languages prior to and after European contact. To that end Mike spent one year in the Inuit village of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and received two sabbaticals, one studying with Marie Askan from the Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, and the second studying with ceramic artist Gerasimo Sosa in Chulacanas, Peru.Nathalie Hager, PhD, currently teaches in the Art History and Visual Culture program at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus, offering courses in art and visual cultures of the world, history of twentieth-century art, contemporary art history, art in Canada and public art. She was the 2020 recipient of her faculty’s Teaching Excellence and Innovation Award.Robert Belton, PhD, is Dean Emeritus of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. He taught courses in art history and theory at Queen’s University, the University of Western Ontario, and at McMaster University. Belton’s research has focused on art, film, and popular music. His most recent book is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). His most recent article is “Incidental Meaning and ‘Hidden Hitchcock’ in Vertigo,” in Haunted by Vertigo, edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin (John Libbey, 2021).
• Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism
  The European Legacy20 November 2023By K. Steven VincentNorth Carolina State University, USA
• The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
  The European Legacy17 November 2023By Edward AndrewUniversity of Toronto, Canada
• Christian Supremacy: Reckoning With the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism
  The European Legacy13 November 2023By Nathan RonThe University of Haifa, Israel
• ‘The First Darwinian’
  The European Legacy10 November 2023By Stanley ShostakDepartment of Biological Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
• Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India
  The European Legacy09 November 2023By Ian HallGriffith University, Australia
• The Political Theology and Polemical Tactics of Bruno Bauer
  The European Legacy06 November 2023By Charles BarbourSchool of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, New South Wales, Australia 2751Charles Barbour is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a school-based member of the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. His research spans the fields of contemporary political theory, philosophies of technology, and the intellectual history of the nineteenth century. His current work focuses on Marx’s early writings and the political thought of the Young Hegelians.
• George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech
  The European Legacy31 October 2023By Richard ShortenUniversity of Birmingham, UK
• The Making of an Austrian Economic Theorist
  The European Legacy31 October 2023By K. Steven VincentDepartment of History, North Carolina State University, Box 8108, Raleigh, NC 27695–8108, USA
• Psychology as a First Principle? Self-Love and the Will to Power in La Rochefoucauld and Nietzsche
  The European Legacy31 October 2023By Jiani FanDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaJiani Fan, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University, China. She completed her doctoral dissertation on “Pleasure as a First Principle? Nietzsche and the French Moralists (Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and Montaigne) on Morality and Religion,” at the Comparative Literature Department of Princeton University, USA, which, among others, was supported by a Laurence S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship and a Josephine de Karman Fellowship. Her publications include “Friedrich Nietzsche’s Assessments of François de La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims through the Academic Sceptic Argumentative Method of pro and con and Syntactic Analysis” (Early Modern French Studies, 2023); “Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on Skepticisms and Honesty” (History of European Ideas, 2023); “From Libido Dominandi in Disguise to an Apologetic Device? Invention and Reinvention of Sweetness (Douceur) in La Rochefoucauld’s and Pascal’s Works” (Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 2021).
• Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present
  The European Legacy11 October 2023By Karis MullerAustralian National University, Australia
• From Affective Ethics to Deep Ecology: Spinoza’s Many Disciples
  The European Legacy10 October 2023By Kaan KangalCSMST, Nanjing University, People’s Republic of China
• In Defense of the Planet
  The European Legacy06 October 2023By Kaan KangalCSMST, Nanjing University, The People’s Republic of China
• Teuflische Allmacht. Über die verleugneten christlichen Wurzeln des modernen Antisemitismus und Antizionismus [Devilish omnipotence: On denying the Christian roots of modern antisemitism and anti-Zionism]
  The European Legacy05 October 2023By Thomas KlikauerWestern Sydney University, Australia
• The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West
  The European Legacy05 October 2023By Thomas KlikauerWestern Sydney University, Australia
• A Portrait of an Eighteenth-Century Explorer and Revolutionary
  The European Legacy03 October 2023By Friederike von Schwerin-HighDeparmtent of German and Russian, Pomona College, 550 North Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711, USA
• Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice
  The European Legacy02 October 2023By Sam McChesneyNorthwestern University, USA
• France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime
  The European Legacy02 October 2023By Harvey ChisickUniversity of Haifa, Israel
• Isaiah Berlin and International Relations
  The European Legacy02 October 2023By George CrowderCollege of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, AustraliaGeorge Crowder is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory in the College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. His books include Liberalism and Value Pluralism (2002), Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism (2004), The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin (co-edited with Henry Hardy, 2007), Theories of Multiculturalism (2013), and The Problem of Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond (2019).
• On Being Observant: From Descartes to Mike Tyson and Teddy Atlas
  The European Legacy02 October 2023By Wayne CristaudoFaculty of Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Casuarina NT 0909, Australia
• The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
  The European Legacy29 September 2023By Laurie M. JohnsonKansas State University, USA
• The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
  The European Legacy29 September 2023By Erwin WarkentinMemorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger
  The European Legacy29 September 2023By Stephen A. ChavuraCampion College, Australia
• Hoping for More: Tocqueville and the Insufficiency of ‘Self-Interest Well Understood’
  The European Legacy22 September 2023By Abraham Martínez HernándezUniversidad Panamericana, Escuela de Gobierno y Economía, Augusto Rodin 498, Ciudad de México, 03920, MéxicoAbraham Martínez Hernández, PhD, is Lecturer of Political Science at the School of Government and Economics, Panamerican University, Mexico City. His research interests revolve around modern political and legal theory, with a focus on liberal democratic thought. He completed his doctorate at the Institute of Legal Studies, the National University of Mexico (IIJ–UNAM).
• Languages, Interpreters and Armed Conflict: The Spanish Civil War
  The European Legacy22 September 2023By Lucía Ruiz RosendoFaculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva, 40, Boulevard du Pont-d’Arve, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
• The Intellectual History of ‘Our’ World in One Lesson
  The European Legacy20 September 2023By Nick CapaldiLoyola University, 6363 St Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70118 USA
• In Memoriam Teresa Halikowska-Smith (1940–2020)
  The European Legacy19 September 2023By Stefan Halikowski-SmithDepartment of History, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
• German Biographies of Marx between the Two World Wars: A Comparative Study
  The European Legacy11 September 2023By Feixia Ling
• Meeting a Hero
  The European Legacy08 September 2023By Teresa Halikowska-Smith
• Grandmother Zofia’s Table
  The European Legacy08 September 2023By Teresa Halikowska-Smith

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