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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18006
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 1960s6
Reading Weber’s sociology of law5
Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government5
Correction5
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?4
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot4
Giambattista Vico and the Foundations of Historical Reason: The Verum-Factum Principle and its Theological-Hermeneutical System4
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought4
Practical Idealism: On Fernanda Gallo’s Reading of Hegel and Italian Political Thought3
Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle3
Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition3
The good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm3
Carl Schmitt: The Nazi Years 1933–19363
Imaginary liberalisms3
The sociological heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment3
Contesting Epic in Early French Enlightenment: Tradition, Scepticism, and the Pursuit of Artistic Freedom3
Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the prophetic imagination3
Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals2
The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government2
Introduction to the Symposium: Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal , Cambridge, Cambridge University P2
Introduction: Tacitism2
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography2
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Grenville on Neutral Trade during the Napoleonic Wars2
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Reconciliation after Conquest: Edmund Burke’s ‘Cosmopolitanism’2
Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times2
Saturated by Commerce: A Computational Analysis of Eighteenth-Century British Political Discourse2
Bridling the Prince: Humanist Counsel and Its Perils in Jean Calvin’s Seneca Commentary2
Translating revolution into poetry: the case of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s hymns2
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy2
Alternative Futures and Transition Mechanisms: Confronting The End of Enlightenment with Richard Whatmore2
Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair2
Victoria Welby2
‘Law’s Limit’: The Kelsen/Hart Debate2
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe1
Danning: A Historical Study of the Interpretations of a Central Norwegian Educational Concept1
The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller's Democracy Rules1
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)1
Nietzsche’s on the genealogy of morality: a guide1
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century1
Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide1
The Importance of Non-Christian Religions in the Philosophy of Pierre1
Pan-Europeanism as an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Form of Cosmopolitanism: Another Lineage of Thought from David Hume to Adam Smith1
A world safe for Catholicism: interwar international law and Neo-Scholastic universalism1
On the concept of Volk in Carl Schmitt1
Law and moral theology in Christian Europe: the limits of sacralization in the late works of Paolo Prodi1
Sharing Freedom: republicanism and exclusion in revolutionary France1
Kant’s impact on moral philosophy1
Anti-democracy in England 1570–16421
Raymond Aron and the moral and cultural conditions of liberal democracy during war time1
La République de Harrington dans la France des Lumières et de la Révolution La République de Harrington dans la France des Lumières et de la Révolution , by Myriam-Isabe1
No One is the State: Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Interwar Theory of the State1
How to Create a Democratic ‘People’ through Education? ‘Dannelse’ in the Danish Context1
Correction1
Grenville on War Finance and the Sinking Fund1
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
The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man1
The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces1
Radical ideas and the crisis of Christianity in England, 1640–1740: the politics of religion1
Arbitrium and potestas in Ancient Rome: On Quentin Skinner's Liberty as Independence1
Amalia Holst1
Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen1
Correction1
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Reading Lipsius in early modern Italy: Ercole Cato and the transformation of thePoliticorum Libri Sex1
Women moralists in early modern France1
The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’1
Exploring the path not taken: introduction to the symposium on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief in Intuition1
The sacred in the civil law: the Homo Sacer and Sacratae Leges of the legal humanists1
Beyond a ‘politics of warning’ against populism in Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules1
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
José Gaos, Eduardo Nicol, and the criticism of cybernetics in Mexico1
Right-hegelianism redivivus. Considerations on Richard Bourke’s Hegel's World Revolutions1
Gibbon’s Christianity: religion, reason, and the fall of Rome1
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
History, Law, and Empire in Montesquieu, William Blackstone, and John Adams1
The authorship of Sister Peg1
‘Giving up philosophy?’ On Part I of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness1
Giovanni Botero, Commercial Empire and the Greatness of Venice1
Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment1
Enlightenment and Its Demise: A Comment on Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment1
Adam Smith on the public provision of education1
Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger1
Cold war liberalism in West Germany: Richard Löwenthal and ‘Western civilization’1
Harriet Taylor Mill1
On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law1
Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times1
Otto Neurath in Britain1
The languages of monarchism in interwar Yugoslavia, 1918–1941: variations on a theme1
Symposium on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules1
Modern Times: A construction manual1
Sectarianism in Philosophy: A Conversation with Ian Hunter1
Correction1
Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France1
Tocqueville against Guizot? On Gianna Englert’s Democracy Tamed1
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
Decoding Robert Greene's Critique of Newton's Natural Philosophy through His Analysis of Locke's Epistemology0
Prophetic times. Visions of emancipation in the history of Italy0
Montesquieu’s heirs? On Gianna Englert’s Democracy Tamed0
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
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)0
In Pursuit of Ancient India: August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Cosmopolitan Philology0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times : on the need for foundations0
Reflections of Ľudovít Štúr’s book Slavdom and the World of the Future in a Time of Change0
Commentary on Joshua Ehrlich’s The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge0
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States0
Taylor and Hobbes on toleration0
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)0
Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–960
In the shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the politics of conscience0
‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought0
The Reception of Emilie Du Châtelet: Enlightenment Philosophy and the Patriarchy0
The Old World and the Intellectual History of American Slavery0
Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay0
Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci0
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism0
The laws of nature and the nature of law: insights from an English rebel, 1641–570
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
The Promise of a New Humanity: Bildning and Eugenics in Ellen Key's Educational Philosophy0
Looking backward, looking forward0
‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism0
Voltaire: from Newtonianism to Spinozism0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
Robespierre: the man who divides us most0
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
Liberty as Independence , Citizenship, and Reform0
I Lumi in Viaggio. Itinerari nell’Odeporica Settecentesca0
Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal0
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles0
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
A reformation to end the revolution: Germaine de Staël and the struggle for republican mores under directory France0
Adam Smith and Sympathetic Cosmopolitanism0
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
Ordoliberalism, State and Society: A Political Theory of Social Order0
Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia and contemporary princes on photomontage as an example of popular and figurative Machiavellianism0
Early modern natural law in East-Central Europe0
Oakeshott’s skepticism, politics and aesthetics0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
Pocock and Meinecke, Machiavellianism and Historicism0
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
Eugen Ehrlich: A Reappraisal0
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors0
Religion, Race, and the Limits of Progress in the Global Histories of William Robertson0
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy0
Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs inKairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo0
Lord William Wyndham Grenville and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
Correction0
Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism0
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law0
Emer de Vattel in context: the moral philosophical foundations of a natural law for states0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism0
Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times0
The enlightenment and original sin0
An Archaeology of the Word ‘Cosmopolitanism’ ( sekaishugi ) in Modern Japan, from 1868 to 19250
Max before Marianne’s mythos: Weber’s early reception in Germany 1920–19270
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan0
Ordoliberal ideas on Europe: two paradigms of European economic integration0
Correction0
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
Enlightenment anthropology. defining humanity in an Era of colonialism0
A Fundamentally Contested Phenomenon The Three Waves in the Swedish Debate on Bildung0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
Rethinking the Holy Alliance0
The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500–18000
The Peaceful Revolution of Solidarity. Pierre Leroux on its Implications for Democracy, Sovereignty and Representation0
Adam Smith and Agriculture: The Political Economy of the ‘Unnatural and Retrograde’ Order Revisited0
Fanaticism and Crisis at the End of Enlightenment0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
The Machiavellian Cosmos: A Medieval Perspective0
Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy0
The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom0
Correction0
Liberalism, the happy exception0
Grenville’s War and Post-War Views on Money in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain0
Debating Gender in Eighteenth-Century France: Contesting the ‘Letter to d’Alembert’0
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
Liberty, Slavery and Dependency: On Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence0
The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth0
A Republic of Sympathy: Sophie de Grouchy’s Politics and Philosophy 1785–18150
Harold Laski, the reluctant Marxist: socialist democracy for a world in turmoil0
Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)0
Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism and the East Asia Intellectual History Network0
Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world0
An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history0
John Henry Newman, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Languages of Liberalism0
Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions0
From secularisations to political religions*0
Author’s Response0
The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment0
Eighteenth-century German empirical psychology and the historiography of scientific objectivity0
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One0
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics0
Jens Kraft’s account of Indigenous peoples’ principal institutions: an eighteenth-century perspective on political anthropology0
Aesthetics and gender in Richard Whatmore's The End of Enlightenment0
El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado (1593)0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
Extending translation, connecting viewpoints and scaling policies and agency: three challenges for translation historians of the French Revolution0
The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece0
On Pietz doing history0
The promise of monsters0
The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law0
The concept of universality and the universality of concepts: a comment0
Navigating Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Four Types of French Cosmopolitan Ideals in the Eighteenth Century0
Canon Formation in Scandinavia0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
Zombies un-slayed: Malthusian Myopia in Lapland0
The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’0
The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
Free Will and Statehood: A Comment on Gallo's Hegel and Italian Political Thought0
Free Market: The History of an Idea0
How is International Law Possible? A Review of Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics. A Theory0
Freedom, Intentionality and the Classic: A Comment on Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence0
Rousseau on multiplying partial associations0
A newspaper for the Italian revolution: Giovanni Antonio Ranza’s Monitore italiano politico e letterario0
A comment on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times0
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
Catastrophic Temporalities in the Early Anthropocene: Dialectic, Plurality, Difference0
Plagues and pantheism0
Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series*0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity0
At last, the last (wo)man responds to (her) readers and critics0
A Response to Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment0
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