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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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 1960s6
Reading Weber’s sociology of law5
Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government5
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?5
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18005
The sociological heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment5
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot4
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought4
The good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm4
Contesting Epic in Early French Enlightenment: Tradition, Scepticism, and the Pursuit of Artistic Freedom3
Carl Schmitt: The Nazi Years 1933–19363
Imaginary liberalisms3
Giambattista Vico and the Foundations of Historical Reason: The Verum-Factum Principle and its Theological-Hermeneutical System3
Introduction to the Symposium, Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832–1900 , Cambridge, Cambridge University Pr3
Redefining Scholastic Modernity: The Global Reform of Philosophy and Theology in the Long Second Scholasticism (1512–1773)3
Correction3
Practical Idealism: On Fernanda Gallo’s Reading of Hegel and Italian Political Thought3
Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle3
Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals2
Introduction to the Symposium: Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal , Cambridge, Cambridge University P2
Translating revolution into poetry: the case of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s hymns2
Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times2
Amalia Holst2
‘Law’s Limit’: The Kelsen/Hart Debate2
Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights2
Grenville on Neutral Trade during the Napoleonic Wars2
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography2
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Alternative Futures and Transition Mechanisms: Confronting The End of Enlightenment with Richard Whatmore2
Reconciliation after Conquest: Edmund Burke’s ‘Cosmopolitanism’2
The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government2
Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy2
Mobilizing Science for Political Activism: The New Urban Left and British Anti-Nuclear Politics, 1980–852
Kant’s impact on moral philosophy1
Harriet Taylor Mill1
Fissionable Fears – Fearful Perspectives on the History of Nuclear Power1
Correction1
Saturated by Commerce: A Computational Analysis of Eighteenth-Century British Political Discourse1
On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law1
Correction1
The Importance of Non-Christian Religions in the Philosophy of Pierre1
Modern Times: A construction manual1
Symposium on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules1
Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times1
Bridling the Prince: Humanist Counsel and Its Perils in Jean Calvin’s Seneca Commentary1
Pan-Europeanism as an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Form of Cosmopolitanism: Another Lineage of Thought from David Hume to Adam Smith1
Unfolding Peace via Integration and ‘Europe’ as Freedom in Madariaga’s Intellectual Legacy from the Interwar Period1
Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide1
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
Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment1
Correction1
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 authorship of Sister Peg1
Grenville on War Finance and the Sinking Fund1
‘Giving up philosophy?’ On Part I of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness1
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Mumford's ‘Scientific Form of Genocide’ and Caroline Ashcroft's Catastrophic Technology1
Diderot, Rousseau and the Politics of the Arts in the Enlightenment1
‘Nature Does Not Make a Jump’: The British Government's Very Long-term Planning Committee in the 1960s1
Adam Smith on the public provision of education1
Nietzsche’s on the genealogy of morality: a guide1
Danning: A Historical Study of the Interpretations of a Central Norwegian Educational Concept1
Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France1
No One is the State: Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Interwar Theory of the State1
On the concept of Volk in Carl Schmitt1
Tocqueville against Guizot? On Gianna Englert’s Democracy Tamed1
Beyond a ‘politics of warning’ against populism in Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules1
The sacred in the civil law: the Homo Sacer and Sacratae Leges of the legal humanists1
Introduction: Tacitism1
Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger1
Arbitrium and potestas in Ancient Rome: On Quentin Skinner's Liberty as Independence1
Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen1
Right-hegelianism redivivus. Considerations on Richard Bourke’s Hegel's World Revolutions1
Giovanni Botero, Commercial Empire and the Greatness of Venice1
Intellectual Boundary-Walkers: The Marginalisation of Philosophy of History and the Making of Disciplinary Boundaries in Twentieth-Century Sweden1
The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces1
Kant’s Philosophical Ascesis1
Enlightenment and Its Demise: A Comment on Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment1
The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation1
Correction1
Otto Neurath in Britain1
Eternal Recurrence and the Heraclitean Child1
The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller's Democracy Rules1
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
In the Wake of a New World Configuration: The Franciscans and the Controversy over Baptism in the Sixteenth Century1
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Radical ideas and the crisis of Christianity in England, 1640–1740: the politics of religion1
José Gaos, Eduardo Nicol, and the criticism of cybernetics in Mexico1
The Ecclesiology of Edmund Burke: A Study in the Meaning of Latitude1
Seven twentieth century legal scholars1
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
Women moralists in early modern France1
Victoria Welby1
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century1
Raymond Aron and the moral and cultural conditions of liberal democracy during war time1
How to Create a Democratic ‘People’ through Education? ‘Dannelse’ in the Danish Context1
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man1
The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’1
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)1
Betrayal and Loyalty in the Moral Economy of Small Nations: Central Europe and the Intellectual History of Europe1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe1
Sectarianism in Philosophy: A Conversation with Ian Hunter1
History, Law, and Empire in Montesquieu, William Blackstone, and John Adams1
Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia and contemporary princes on photomontage as an example of popular and figurative Machiavellianism0
Adam Smith and Sympathetic Cosmopolitanism0
Redescribing the Machiavellian prince. The idea of monarchy in Giovanni Botero’s Della Ragion di Stato (1589)0
History and Tragedy in Stuart Hampshire’s Thought and Action and in Bernard Williams, c. 1959–19730
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times0
The enlightenment and original sin0
The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition0
Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought0
Rethinking the Holy Alliance0
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci0
Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay0
Review of István Hont, Political economy from Pufendorf to Marx: culture, needs and property rights0
At last, the last (wo)man responds to (her) readers and critics0
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law0
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism0
Robespierre: the man who divides us most0
Jens Kraft’s account of Indigenous peoples’ principal institutions: an eighteenth-century perspective on political anthropology0
Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : A New Manuscript Fragment0
Fanaticism and Crisis at the End of Enlightenment0
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Correction0
How is International Law Possible? A Review of Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics. A Theory0
Debating Gender in Eighteenth-Century France: Contesting the ‘Letter to d’Alembert’0
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes0
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity0
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
Aesthetics and gender in Richard Whatmore's The End of Enlightenment0
Pocock and Meinecke, Machiavellianism and Historicism0
Correction0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–960
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors0
The Epistemologies of Progress0
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times : on the need for foundations0
El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado (1593)0
Kelsen on Law and Socialism0
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
A Freedom Freed from Politics: The Political and Social Thought of Simone Weil in the Europe of Her Day0
Eugen Ehrlich: A Reappraisal0
‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought0
Correction0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment0
A Response to Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment0
Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism0
From secularisations to political religions*0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500–18000
Statement of Retraction: From Raków to London: The Transmission of Socinian Ideas in Enlightenment Britain. Historiographical Perspectives0
The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism0
Free Market: The History of an Idea0
Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age0
Canon Formation in Scandinavia0
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
Enlightenment anthropology. defining humanity in an Era of colonialism0
In Pursuit of Ancient India: August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Cosmopolitan Philology0
Correction0
Parties and Representative Government: On the Democratic Theory Implications of Gallo's Hegel and Italian Political Thought0
Liberty as Independence , Citizenship, and Reform0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
A comment on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times0
Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science0
Under a merciless star: Mircea Eliade and the horror of history0
I Lumi in Viaggio. Itinerari nell’Odeporica Settecentesca0
Reflections of Ľudovít Štúr’s book Slavdom and the World of the Future in a Time of Change0
Liberalism, the happy exception0
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
Freedom, Intentionality and the Classic: A Comment on Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence0
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth0
Looking backward, looking forward0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present0
Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism and the East Asia Intellectual History Network0
An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy0
Ordoliberalism, State and Society: A Political Theory of Social Order0
An Archaeology of the Word ‘Cosmopolitanism’ ( sekaishugi ) in Modern Japan, from 1868 to 19250
An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history0
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan0
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
A History of Political Thought for Technological Times. On Caroline Ashcroft's Catastrophic Technology0
Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
The Machiavellian Cosmos: A Medieval Perspective0
Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions0
Propaganda at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Maximilian I of Bayern, his Propagandists, and the Altera Secretissima instructio (1626)0
John Henry Newman, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Languages of Liberalism0
Oakeshott’s skepticism, politics and aesthetics0
Machiavelli and Emergency Powers: Lessons for Modern Democracies0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
Harold Laski, the reluctant Marxist: socialist democracy for a world in turmoil0
Commentary on Joshua Ehrlich’s The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge0
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world0
Free Will and Statehood: A Comment on Gallo's Hegel and Italian Political Thought0
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism0
Religion, Race, and the Limits of Progress in the Global Histories of William Robertson0
The Old World and the Intellectual History of American Slavery0
A reformation to end the revolution: Germaine de Staël and the struggle for republican mores under directory France0
Max before Marianne’s mythos: Weber’s early reception in Germany 1920–19270
Plagues and pantheism0
The Promise of a New Humanity: Bildning and Eugenics in Ellen Key's Educational Philosophy0
Early modern natural law in East-Central Europe0
Machiavelli on Imperial Rule0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
Author’s Response0
Grenville’s War and Post-War Views on Money in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
The Peaceful Revolution of Solidarity. Pierre Leroux on its Implications for Democracy, Sovereignty and Representation0
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy0
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
Decoding Robert Greene's Critique of Newton's Natural Philosophy through His Analysis of Locke's Epistemology0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
A newspaper for the Italian revolution: Giovanni Antonio Ranza’s Monitore italiano politico e letterario0
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism0
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
Lord William Wyndham Grenville and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade0
Rediscovering Santorre di Santarosa (1783–1825): Patriot, Man of Letters, and Romantic Hero0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)0
Emer de Vattel in context: the moral philosophical foundations of a natural law for states0
Liberty, Slavery and Dependency: On Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence0
Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony0
Extending translation, connecting viewpoints and scaling policies and agency: three challenges for translation historians of the French Revolution0
Prophetic times. Visions of emancipation in the history of Italy0
On Pietz doing history0
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
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