History of European Ideas

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction4
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin4
Kitromilides, Korais and the book of destinies4
Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works3
The thought they had lost: Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions and the contested legacies of the global 1960s3
The good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm3
Reading Weber’s sociology of law3
Spatial aspects in the work of Reinhart Koselleck2
Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government2
Sovereignty beyond natural law: Adam Blackwood’s Catholic royalism2
Liberty and representation in Hobbes: a materialist theory ofconatus2
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot2
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?2
The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government2
Unsocial sociability2
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18002
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought2
Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition2
The politics of unreason and the spectre of the Enlightenment: a commentary on Enlightenment and Revolution2
Translating revolution into poetry: the case of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s hymns1
Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle1
Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair1
The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation1
The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’1
Empire and Liberty in Adam Ferguson’s Republicanism1
Harriet Taylor Mill1
The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller's Democracy Rules1
Right-hegelianism redivivus. Considerations on Richard Bourke’s Hegel's World Revolutions1
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)1
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography1
The King’s three bodies: person, state and public opinion1
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man1
Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy1
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals1
Adam Smith on the public provision of education1
Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment1
Law and moral theology in Christian Europe: the limits of sacralization in the late works of Paolo Prodi1
The aesthetics of the invisible: George Berkeley and the modern aesthetics1
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times1
Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France1
Victoria Welby1
Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide1
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century1
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the prophetic imagination1
Imaginary liberalisms1
The authorship of Sister Peg1
Kant’s impact on moral philosophy1
Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times1
The art of being in the eighteenth century: Adam Smith on fortune, luck, and trust1
Rethinking Constant’s ancient liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism1
Calculated values: finance, politics and the quantitative age1
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: Tacitism1
The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces1
Reinhart Koselleck’s chrono-political crisis theory. Actuality and limits1
Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger1
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe1
Alternative Futures and Transition Mechanisms: Confronting The End of Enlightenment with Richard Whatmore1
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
Prophetic times. Visions of emancipation in the history of Italy Prophetic times. Visions of emancipation in the history of Italy , by Maurizio Viroli, Cambridge, Cambri0
Max before Marianne’s mythos: Weber’s early reception in Germany 1920–19270
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present0
Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times : on the need for foundations0
The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
Ethos, Leninism and perspective: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
Operatic Albanians and singing Turks in the age of enlightenment and revolution0
The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom0
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)0
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law0
Benjamin Constant, political power, and democracy0
Liberal constitution, civic enlightenment, and colonies: Jeremy Bentham on the Spanish empire0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
Otto Hintze today0
‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought0
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
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
Roger Scruton’s theory of the imagination and aesthetics as a formulation of Aristotelian virtue ethics0
Robespierre: the man who divides us most0
Rousseau on multiplying partial associations0
A comment on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times0
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
Marriage, morals, and progress: J.S. Mill and the early feminists0
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s0
The concept of universality and the universality of concepts: a comment0
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
Between Athens and the Port-Royal; contextualising Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Plato0
Who translated into French and annotated Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman ?0
Comment on Kaiser, Christ and Canaan: the religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918, by Paul Michael Kurtz, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 20180
Transformation, disfigurement, or polarised invigoration? On Nadia Urbinati’s Me the People0
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics0
Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy0
Response to Adam Sutcliffe0
Introduction to a Review Symposium on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability0
Monboddo’s ‘ugly tail’: the question of evidence in enlightenment sciences of man0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
Oakeshott’s skepticism, politics and aesthetics0
The promise of monsters0
Rethinking the systematics of history with Jean Baechler beyond Reinhart Koselleck – the challenge of the three M's (meta, macro, micro)0
An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy0
Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul0
The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’0
‘The natural leader of the proletariat’: Eduard Bernstein on trade unions and the path to socialist cooperation0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
No escaping brutal reality: the death penalty in early modern utopias0
The human good and the science of man0
Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions0
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
What the fetish does to the history of art0
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
Phillipson’s Hume in Phillipson's Scottish Enlightenment0
Correction0
Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series*0
An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500–18000
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
An anarchist take on royalty: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s evolving assessment of post-revolutionary monarchy, 1839–64. Part I0
Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)0
Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law0
Aesthetics and gender in Richard Whatmore's The End of Enlightenment0
The opacity of a system T.R. Malthus and the population in principle0
The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism0
Sociable individualism: Christian Jakob Kraus and the Königsberg Enlightenment0
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity0
The Pacifism of Bertrand Russell during the Great War0
Looking backward, looking forward0
Understanding sociability through Mandevillean pride: comments on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
Enlightenment anthropology. defining humanity in an Era of colonialism0
Redescribing the Machiavellian prince. The idea of monarchy in Giovanni Botero’s Della Ragion di Stato (1589)0
Natural contra human sciences: the conflict between nomothetic and idiographic sciences, with special reference to S. J. Boëthius0
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony0
Harold Laski, the reluctant Marxist: socialist democracy for a world in turmoil0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
Democracy versus representation in Gregory Conti's parliament mirror of the nation0
Comment on The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude, by Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Leiden, Brill, 20190
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
A newspaper for the Italian revolution: Giovanni Antonio Ranza’s Monitore italiano politico e letterario0
The law of nations in international political thought0
El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado (1593)0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
Author’s Response0
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles0
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia and contemporary princes on photomontage as an example of popular and figurative Machiavellianism0
Editors’ introduction0
Historicizing historicism: Reinhart Koselleck and the periodization of modernity0
The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
Mill, socialism, and utilitarianism: on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist0
On Pietz doing history0
Symposium on Natasha Wheatley’s The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty0
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France0
Under a merciless star: Mircea Eliade and the horror of history0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism0
Fragile sovereignty?0
Reflections on Hegel’s World Revolutions : a reply to critics0
From secularisations to political religions*0
Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721) and the skeptics of his time0
Fanaticism and Crisis at the End of Enlightenment0
Ordoliberal ideas on Europe: two paradigms of European economic integration0
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors0
J.S. Mill on Bentham’s incomplete mind0
Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–960
Entangled histories of revolution in Europe: translation and transnationalism0
La science des moeurs au siècle des lumières. Conceptions et expérimentations0
Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal0
Karl Korsch and Marxism’s interwar moment, 1917–19330
Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history0
Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times0
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
Correction0
Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement0
Comment on God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett, Oxford, University of Oxford Press, 20190
The relation between the ‘City’ and the ‘Soul’, and the role of small-scale exemplars within the city: a response to the symposium on The Belief in Intuition0
Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay0
Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs inKairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo0
The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece0
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
Descartes in context0
The enlightenment and original sin0
Eighteenth-century German empirical psychology and the historiography of scientific objectivity0
Eugen Ehrlich. Kontexte und Rezeptionen; Grundlegung der Soziologie des Rechts0
In the shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the politics of conscience0
The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition0
Beyond ‘civil religion’ – on Pascalian influence in Tocqueville0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
A different antifascism. An analysis of the Rise of Nazism as seen by anarchists during the Weimar period0
Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci0
Free Market: The History of an Idea0
Florentius Schuyl and the origin of the beast-machine controversy0
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)0
‘Light on the enlightenment’ or ‘counter-enlightenment’?: Rereading Reinhart Koselleck’sCritique and Crisisin its context(s)0
Taylor and Hobbes on toleration0
Zombies un-slayed: Malthusian Myopia in Lapland0
Correction0
Plagues and pantheism0
Machiavelli’s ironic discourse to defend a radical republic0
The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth0
Antonio Gramsci: an intellectual biography Antonio Gramsci: an intellectual biography , by Gianni Fresu, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, vii + 404 pp., £27.99, ISBN 970
Havel’s idea of post-democracy in a comparative perspective0
John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation0
‘Populism without the people’: fascists, caesarists, and democrats in Nadia Urbinati’s Me the People0
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
Correction0
Beyond binary discourses on liberty: Constant's modern liberty, rightly understood0
Assessing ‘unnatural lusts’: John Locke on the permissibility of male-male intimacy0
Political theory meets comparative politics. On Nadia Urbinati's Me the people0
Neither dominant nor dominated. The decolonial federalism of Albert Camus0
Reading and translating Algernon Sidney’sDiscoursesin early modern Germany0
Emer de Vattel in context: the moral philosophical foundations of a natural law for states0
Voltaire: from Newtonianism to Spinozism0
Leo Strauss: a political realist?0
Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries0
A Response to Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment0
Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty0
Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: the bonds of politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023)0
‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism0
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
Democracy and Tocqueville’s aesthetics of the revolution0
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One0
Thinking differently: Italian feminism beyond essentialism0
Liberalism, the happy exception0
Protestantism, revolution and Scottish political thought: the European context, 1637-16510
Extending translation, connecting viewpoints and scaling policies and agency: three challenges for translation historians of the French Revolution0
The dispute between Gandhi and De Ligt on the war justifications (1928–1930)0
Afterword0
Scheler and Zambrano: on a transformation of the heart in Spanish philosophy0
La Peyrère’s influence on Vico’s historical reconstruction: from pre-Adamism to the plurality of history0
Slaying vampires in eighteenth-century Sweden0
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
Concluding reflections0
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