History of European Ideas

Papers
(The median citation count of History of European Ideas is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works6
The thought they had lost: Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions and the contested legacies of the global 1960s5
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18005
Reading Weber’s sociology of law4
Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government4
Correction3
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin3
The good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm3
Translating revolution into poetry: the case of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s hymns3
Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition3
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?3
The sociological heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment3
The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government3
Alternative Futures and Transition Mechanisms: Confronting The End of Enlightenment with Richard Whatmore3
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought3
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot3
Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle3
Imaginary liberalisms3
Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger2
Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals2
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography2
Introduction: Tacitism2
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
‘Law’s Limit’: The Kelsen/Hart Debate2
Grenville on Neutral Trade during the Napoleonic Wars2
Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy2
Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times2
Victoria Welby2
Reconciliation after Conquest: Edmund Burke’s ‘Cosmopolitanism’2
Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the prophetic imagination2
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Introduction to the Symposium: Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal , Cambridge, Cambridge University P2
Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair2
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Sharing Freedom: republicanism and exclusion in revolutionary France1
Arbitrium and potestas in Ancient Rome: On Quentin Skinner's Liberty as Independence1
The Weirdest People in the World: how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous1
Populism, Power and Proportionalism in Nadia Urbinati's Me the People1
Calculated values: finance, politics and the quantitative age1
Women moralists in early modern France1
Right-hegelianism redivivus. Considerations on Richard Bourke’s Hegel's World Revolutions1
The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’1
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Rethinking Constant’s ancient liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism1
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)1
Adam Smith on the public provision of education1
Empire and Liberty in Adam Ferguson’s Republicanism1
Bridling the Prince: Humanist Counsel and Its Perils in Jean Calvin’s Seneca Commentary1
Law and moral theology in Christian Europe: the limits of sacralization in the late works of Paolo Prodi1
Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times1
Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen1
Sectarianism in Philosophy: A Conversation with Ian Hunter1
Correction1
Radical ideas and the crisis of Christianity in England, 1640–1740: the politics of religion1
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century1
Correction1
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man1
‘Giving up philosophy?’ On Part I of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness1
Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France1
Derrida and history: a failed approach Haunting history: for a deconstructive approach to the past , by Ethan Kleinberg, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2017, 208 p1
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe1
History, Law, and Empire in Montesquieu, William Blackstone, and John Adams1
The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces1
Amalia Holst1
Harriet Taylor Mill1
Otto Neurath in Britain1
On the concept of Volk in Carl Schmitt1
The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller's Democracy Rules1
José Gaos, Eduardo Nicol, and the criticism of cybernetics in Mexico1
Pan-Europeanism as an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Form of Cosmopolitanism: Another Lineage of Thought from David Hume to Adam Smith1
Reading Lipsius in early modern Italy: Ercole Cato and the transformation of thePoliticorum Libri Sex1
Nietzsche’s on the genealogy of morality: a guide1
Giovanni Botero, Commercial Empire and the Greatness of Venice1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law1
The authorship of Sister Peg1
A world safe for Catholicism: interwar international law and Neo-Scholastic universalism1
The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation1
Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment1
Enlightenment and Its Demise: A Comment on Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment1
Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide1
Grenville on War Finance and the Sinking Fund1
Kant’s impact on moral philosophy1
Cold war liberalism in West Germany: Richard Löwenthal and ‘Western civilization’1
The law of nations in international political thought0
An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
Mill, socialism, and utilitarianism: on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist0
The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’0
Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay0
Afterword0
Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times : on the need for foundations0
‘The natural leader of the proletariat’: Eduard Bernstein on trade unions and the path to socialist cooperation0
Voltaire: from Newtonianism to Spinozism0
An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy0
The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism0
Lord William Wyndham Grenville and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade0
The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece0
Rousseau on multiplying partial associations0
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
Comment on The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude, by Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Leiden, Brill, 20190
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics0
Otto Kirchheimer on the Juridification(s) of Democracy0
Extending translation, connecting viewpoints and scaling policies and agency: three challenges for translation historians of the French Revolution0
A comment on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times0
Taylor and Hobbes on toleration0
Enlightenment anthropology. defining humanity in an Era of colonialism0
Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement0
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
Liberalism, the happy exception0
El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado (1593)0
Liberty as Independence , Citizenship, and Reform0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation0
John Henry Newman, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Languages of Liberalism0
‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism0
The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition0
Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism and the East Asia Intellectual History Network0
Freedom, Intentionality and the Classic: A Comment on Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence0
Liberal constitution, civic enlightenment, and colonies: Jeremy Bentham on the Spanish empire0
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors0
Plagues and pantheism0
John Pocock and the ‘Edge of Empire’ Thesis. A Late Letter from 20210
The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
Correction0
Comment on God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett, Oxford, University of Oxford Press, 20190
A Response to Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment0
Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
Fanaticism and Crisis at the End of Enlightenment0
A Republic of Sympathy: Sophie de Grouchy’s Politics and Philosophy 1785–18150
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history0
Debating Gender in Eighteenth-Century France: Contesting the ‘Letter to d’Alembert’0
Equality’s Contested History: A Review of Darrin McMahon’s Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)0
Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: the bonds of politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023)0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
Aesthetics and gender in Richard Whatmore's The End of Enlightenment0
Navigating Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Four Types of French Cosmopolitan Ideals in the Eighteenth Century0
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world0
Correction0
Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)0
The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States0
The laws of nature and the nature of law: insights from an English rebel, 1641–570
From secularisations to political religions*0
The Old World and the Intellectual History of American Slavery0
The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment0
Eighteenth-century German empirical psychology and the historiography of scientific objectivity0
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present0
Robespierre: the man who divides us most0
Prophetic times. Visions of emancipation in the history of Italy0
In the shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the politics of conscience0
Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series*0
Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–960
Beyond binary discourses on liberty: Constant's modern liberty, rightly understood0
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan0
Max before Marianne’s mythos: Weber’s early reception in Germany 1920–19270
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism0
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
Montesquieu’s heirs? On Gianna Englert’s Democracy Tamed0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
Between Athens and the Port-Royal; contextualising Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Plato0
‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought0
Correction0
Benjamin Constant, political power, and democracy0
Hans Jonas’s reflections on the human soul and the notion ofimago Dei: an explanation of their role in ethics and some possible historical influences on their development0
I Lumi in Viaggio. Itinerari nell’Odeporica Settecentesca0
Natural contra human sciences: the conflict between nomothetic and idiographic sciences, with special reference to S. J. Boëthius0
Comment on Kaiser, Christ and Canaan: the religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918, by Paul Michael Kurtz, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 20180
Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions0
Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia and contemporary princes on photomontage as an example of popular and figurative Machiavellianism0
Harold Laski, the reluctant Marxist: socialist democracy for a world in turmoil0
The Meaning and Demeaning of Political Ideals: On Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
Thinking differently: Italian feminism beyond essentialism0
Free Market: The History of an Idea0
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles0
Oakeshott’s skepticism, politics and aesthetics0
Elasticity, militancy, and infection: metaphorical argumentation in the trial against the German Communist Party, 1954–560
A newspaper for the Italian revolution: Giovanni Antonio Ranza’s Monitore italiano politico e letterario0
Towards Histories of Ideas of Knowledge: A Reply0
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
The Reception of Emilie Du Châtelet: Enlightenment Philosophy and the Patriarchy0
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France0
Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs inKairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo0
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)0
In Pursuit of Ancient India: August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Cosmopolitan Philology0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500–18000
Ordoliberal ideas on Europe: two paradigms of European economic integration0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
The enlightenment and original sin0
The Peaceful Revolution of Solidarity. Pierre Leroux on its Implications for Democracy, Sovereignty and Representation0
Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law0
Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal0
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth0
Correction0
The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom0
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
Eugen Ehrlich: A Reappraisal0
Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci0
Sociable individualism: Christian Jakob Kraus and the Königsberg Enlightenment0
An Archaeology of the Word ‘Cosmopolitanism’ ( sekaishugi ) in Modern Japan, from 1868 to 19250
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Emer de Vattel in context: the moral philosophical foundations of a natural law for states0
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law0
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
La Peyrère’s influence on Vico’s historical reconstruction: from pre-Adamism to the plurality of history0
Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times0
Ordoliberalism, State and Society: A Political Theory of Social Order0
Looking backward, looking forward0
Pocock and Meinecke, Machiavellianism and Historicism0
On Pietz doing history0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony0
Decoding Robert Greene's Critique of Newton's Natural Philosophy through His Analysis of Locke's Epistemology0
Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy0
The Young Jules Michelet and the Sources of Morality0
Early modern natural law in East-Central Europe0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
At last, the last (wo)man responds to (her) readers and critics0
Author’s Response0
Adam Smith and Sympathetic Cosmopolitanism0
Florentius Schuyl and the origin of the beast-machine controversy0
Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries0
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
Liberty, Slavery and Dependency: On Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence0
The concept of universality and the universality of concepts: a comment0
Scheler and Zambrano: on a transformation of the heart in Spanish philosophy0
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One0
Grenville’s War and Post-War Views on Money in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain0
A reformation to end the revolution: Germaine de Staël and the struggle for republican mores under directory France0
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