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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Kitromilides, Korais and the book of destinies5
Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works4
The thought they had lost: Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions and the contested legacies of the global 1960s4
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought4
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18004
The good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm3
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?3
Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government3
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot3
Imaginary liberalisms2
Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy2
Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals2
The sociological heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment2
The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government2
Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle2
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
Grenville on Neutral Trade during the Napoleonic Wars2
The politics of unreason and the spectre of the Enlightenment: a commentary on Enlightenment and Revolution2
Reading Weber’s sociology of law2
Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition2
Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the prophetic imagination2
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Liberty and representation in Hobbes: a materialist theory ofconatus2
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin2
Correction2
Sovereignty beyond natural law: Adam Blackwood’s Catholic royalism2
Sharing Freedom: republicanism and exclusion in revolutionary France1
The Weirdest People in the World: how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous1
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Nietzsche’s on the genealogy of morality: a guide1
The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces1
The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’1
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Harriet Taylor Mill1
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century1
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Kant’s impact on moral philosophy1
Bridling the Prince: Humanist Counsel and Its Perils in Jean Calvin’s Seneca Commentary1
On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law1
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography1
A world safe for Catholicism: interwar international law and Neo-Scholastic universalism1
Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times1
Adam Smith on the public provision of education1
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Reading Lipsius in early modern Italy: Ercole Cato and the transformation of thePoliticorum Libri Sex1
Why the socialist Mill will not alarm his liberal readers: a reflection on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist1
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe1
Rethinking Constant’s ancient liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism1
Grenville on War Finance and the Sinking Fund1
Radical ideas and the crisis of Christianity in England, 1640–1740: the politics of religion1
The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation1
Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France1
‘Giving up philosophy?’ On Part I of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness1
The authorship of Sister Peg1
Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times1
Introduction: Tacitism1
Women moralists in early modern France1
Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair1
Translating revolution into poetry: the case of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s hymns1
The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller's Democracy Rules1
Giovanni Botero, Commercial Empire and the Greatness of Venice1
Correction1
Populism, Power and Proportionalism in Nadia Urbinati's Me the People1
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)1
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
Right-hegelianism redivivus. Considerations on Richard Bourke’s Hegel's World Revolutions1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man1
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
Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger1
The aesthetics of the invisible: George Berkeley and the modern aesthetics1
Victoria Welby1
Enlightenment and Its Demise: A Comment on Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment1
Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide1
Calculated values: finance, politics and the quantitative age1
Empire and Liberty in Adam Ferguson’s Republicanism1
Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times : on the need for foundations0
Ordoliberal ideas on Europe: two paradigms of European economic integration0
La science des moeurs au siècle des lumières. Conceptions et expérimentations0
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
A different antifascism. An analysis of the Rise of Nazism as seen by anarchists during the Weimar period0
Political theory meets comparative politics. On Nadia Urbinati's Me the people0
The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism0
The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece0
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
The dispute between Gandhi and De Ligt on the war justifications (1928–1930)0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law0
Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–960
No escaping brutal reality: the death penalty in early modern utopias0
Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal0
Marriage, morals, and progress: J.S. Mill and the early feminists0
Under a merciless star: Mircea Eliade and the horror of history0
Looking backward, looking forward0
Scheler and Zambrano: on a transformation of the heart in Spanish philosophy0
Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement0
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
The opacity of a system T.R. Malthus and the population in principle0
Eighteenth-century German empirical psychology and the historiography of scientific objectivity0
Comment on The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude, by Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Leiden, Brill, 20190
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
Understanding sociability through Mandevillean pride: comments on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
A comment on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times0
‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism0
El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado (1593)0
Natural contra human sciences: the conflict between nomothetic and idiographic sciences, with special reference to S. J. Boëthius0
Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
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
Experimental Philosophy: Rhetoric and Reality0
Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series*0
Correction0
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism0
Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia and contemporary princes on photomontage as an example of popular and figurative Machiavellianism0
Editors’ introduction0
Jens Kraft’s account of Indigenous peoples’ principal institutions: an eighteenth-century perspective on political anthropology0
‘The natural leader of the proletariat’: Eduard Bernstein on trade unions and the path to socialist cooperation0
Harold Laski, the reluctant Marxist: socialist democracy for a world in turmoil0
Lord William Wyndham Grenville and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade0
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)0
Who translated into French and annotated Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman ?0
Reading and translating Algernon Sidney’sDiscoursesin early modern Germany0
What the fetish does to the history of art0
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
Taylor and Hobbes on toleration0
Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)0
The promise of monsters0
Fanaticism and Crisis at the End of Enlightenment0
Zombies un-slayed: Malthusian Myopia in Lapland0
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation0
Fragile sovereignty?0
Afterword0
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 concept of universality and the universality of concepts: a comment0
The enlightenment and original sin0
Montesquieu’s heirs? On Gianna Englert’s Democracy Tamed0
An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy0
Assessing ‘unnatural lusts’: John Locke on the permissibility of male-male intimacy0
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci0
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
Concluding reflections0
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
Correction0
The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition0
An anarchist take on royalty: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s evolving assessment of post-revolutionary monarchy, 1839–64. Part I0
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
Comment on Kaiser, Christ and Canaan: the religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918, by Paul Michael Kurtz, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 20180
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
Descartes in context0
The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom0
The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth0
The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States0
On Pietz doing history0
Beyond ‘civil religion’ – on Pascalian influence in Tocqueville0
Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony0
Pocock and Meinecke, Machiavellianism and Historicism0
Karl Korsch and Marxism’s interwar moment, 1917–19330
La Peyrère’s influence on Vico’s historical reconstruction: from pre-Adamism to the plurality of history0
Roger Scruton’s theory of the imagination and aesthetics as a formulation of Aristotelian virtue ethics0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity0
Between Athens and the Port-Royal; contextualising Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Plato0
The Young Jules Michelet and the Sources of Morality0
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
Leo Strauss: a political realist?0
A Response to Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment0
Correction0
An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
Transformation, disfigurement, or polarised invigoration? On Nadia Urbinati’s Me the People0
J.S. Mill on Bentham’s incomplete mind0
Plagues and pantheism0
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan0
The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment0
The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history0
Extending translation, connecting viewpoints and scaling policies and agency: three challenges for translation historians of the French Revolution0
‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought0
Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs inKairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo0
Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: the bonds of politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023)0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
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
Aesthetics and gender in Richard Whatmore's The End of Enlightenment0
‘Populism without the people’: fascists, caesarists, and democrats in Nadia Urbinati’s Me the People0
Correction0
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles0
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world0
Eugen Ehrlich. Kontexte und Rezeptionen; Grundlegung der Soziologie des Rechts0
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics0
Operatic Albanians and singing Turks in the age of enlightenment and revolution0
In the shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the politics of conscience0
Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay0
Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul0
Voltaire: from Newtonianism to Spinozism0
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
Enlightenment anthropology. defining humanity in an Era of colonialism0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
Democracy versus representation in Gregory Conti's parliament mirror of the nation0
Rousseau on multiplying partial associations0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
Benjamin Constant, political power, and democracy0
Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation0
Sociable individualism: Christian Jakob Kraus and the Königsberg Enlightenment0
Robespierre: the man who divides us most0
A newspaper for the Italian revolution: Giovanni Antonio Ranza’s Monitore italiano politico e letterario0
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Ethos, Leninism and perspective: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
Author’s Response0
Liberalism, the happy exception0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
Liberal constitution, civic enlightenment, and colonies: Jeremy Bentham on the Spanish empire0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
Beyond binary discourses on liberty: Constant's modern liberty, rightly understood0
Oakeshott’s skepticism, politics and aesthetics0
Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times0
John Pocock and the ‘Edge of Empire’ Thesis. A Late Letter from 20210
Otto Hintze today0
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One0
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors0
Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
John Pocock’s Histories of Historiography0
Reflections on Hegel’s World Revolutions : a reply to critics0
Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
Comment on God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett, Oxford, University of Oxford Press, 20190
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
Protestantism, revolution and Scottish political thought: the European context, 1637-16510
From secularisations to political religions*0
Mill, socialism, and utilitarianism: on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist0
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
Elasticity, militancy, and infection: metaphorical argumentation in the trial against the German Communist Party, 1954–560
Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500–18000
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
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