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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Kitromilides, Korais and the book of destinies5
The good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm4
The thought they had lost: Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions and the contested legacies of the global 1960s4
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18004
Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works4
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot4
Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government3
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought3
Spatial aspects in the work of Reinhart Koselleck3
Reading Weber’s sociology of law2
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin2
Unsocial sociability2
Imaginary liberalisms2
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition2
Correction2
Sovereignty beyond natural law: Adam Blackwood’s Catholic royalism2
Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy2
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
The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government2
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?2
The sociological heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment2
Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle2
Translating revolution into poetry: the case of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s hymns2
The politics of unreason and the spectre of the Enlightenment: a commentary on Enlightenment and Revolution2
Adam Smith on the public provision of education1
The aesthetics of the invisible: George Berkeley and the modern aesthetics1
Introduction: Tacitism1
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man1
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography1
Calculated values: finance, politics and the quantitative age1
Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times1
Liberty and representation in Hobbes: a materialist theory ofconatus1
Right-hegelianism redivivus. Considerations on Richard Bourke’s Hegel's World Revolutions1
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Empire and Liberty in Adam Ferguson’s Republicanism1
Enlightenment and Its Demise: A Comment on Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment1
A world safe for Catholicism: interwar international law and Neo-Scholastic universalism1
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation1
Law and moral theology in Christian Europe: the limits of sacralization in the late works of Paolo Prodi1
The authorship of Sister Peg1
Harriet Taylor Mill1
Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair1
The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller's Democracy Rules1
Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger1
Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals1
Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
Nietzsche’s on the genealogy of morality: a guide1
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
Women moralists in early modern France1
The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces1
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe1
‘Giving up philosophy?’ On Part I of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness1
Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment1
The art of being in the eighteenth century: Adam Smith on fortune, luck, and trust1
Bridling the Prince: Humanist Counsel and Its Perils in Jean Calvin’s Seneca Commentary1
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Reinhart Koselleck’s chrono-political crisis theory. Actuality and limits1
Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times1
Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide1
Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the prophetic imagination1
Victoria Welby1
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century1
Rethinking Constant’s ancient liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism1
The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’1
On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law1
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)1
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Kant’s impact on moral philosophy1
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
Comment on The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude, by Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Leiden, Brill, 20190
Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: the bonds of politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023)0
Comment on Kaiser, Christ and Canaan: the religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918, by Paul Michael Kurtz, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 20180
Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries0
Emer de Vattel in context: the moral philosophical foundations of a natural law for states0
Democracy and Tocqueville’s aesthetics of the revolution0
A comment on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times0
‘Populism without the people’: fascists, caesarists, and democrats in Nadia Urbinati’s Me the People0
The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States0
The human good and the science of man0
Liberalism, the happy exception0
Assessing ‘unnatural lusts’: John Locke on the permissibility of male-male intimacy0
Beyond binary discourses on liberty: Constant's modern liberty, rightly understood0
Elasticity, militancy, and infection: metaphorical argumentation in the trial against the German Communist Party, 1954–560
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors0
Correction0
Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs inKairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo0
Phillipson’s Hume in Phillipson's Scottish Enlightenment0
Reflections on Hegel’s World Revolutions : a reply to critics0
Rousseau on multiplying partial associations0
Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy0
Transformation, disfigurement, or polarised invigoration? On Nadia Urbinati’s Me the People0
On Pietz doing history0
La Peyrère’s influence on Vico’s historical reconstruction: from pre-Adamism to the plurality of history0
Democracy versus representation in Gregory Conti's parliament mirror of the nation0
J.S. Mill on Bentham’s incomplete mind0
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
From secularisations to political religions*0
Between Athens and the Port-Royal; contextualising Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Plato0
The opacity of a system T.R. Malthus and the population in principle0
Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history0
The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom0
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
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
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics0
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
Otto Hintze today0
Aesthetics and gender in Richard Whatmore's The End of Enlightenment0
‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought0
Understanding sociability through Mandevillean pride: comments on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world0
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan0
Natural contra human sciences: the conflict between nomothetic and idiographic sciences, with special reference to S. J. Boëthius0
In the shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the politics of conscience0
Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
Mill, socialism, and utilitarianism: on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist0
The Young Jules Michelet and the Sources of Morality0
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
Looking backward, looking forward0
Marriage, morals, and progress: J.S. Mill and the early feminists0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
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
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)0
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France0
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity0
Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty0
The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth0
Ordoliberal ideas on Europe: two paradigms of European economic integration0
Jens Kraft’s account of Indigenous peoples’ principal institutions: an eighteenth-century perspective on political anthropology0
Fanaticism and Crisis at the End of Enlightenment0
Extending translation, connecting viewpoints and scaling policies and agency: three challenges for translation historians of the French Revolution0
Entangled histories of revolution in Europe: translation and transnationalism0
Pocock and Meinecke, Machiavellianism and Historicism0
Political theory meets comparative politics. On Nadia Urbinati's Me the people0
Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia and contemporary princes on photomontage as an example of popular and figurative Machiavellianism0
La science des moeurs au siècle des lumières. Conceptions et expérimentations0
Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
The promise of monsters0
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism0
The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism0
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times : on the need for foundations0
Concluding reflections0
‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism0
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
Harold Laski, the reluctant Marxist: socialist democracy for a world in turmoil0
Operatic Albanians and singing Turks in the age of enlightenment and revolution0
John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation0
Correction0
Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
Protestantism, revolution and Scottish political thought: the European context, 1637-16510
Sociable individualism: Christian Jakob Kraus and the Königsberg Enlightenment0
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history0
Descartes in context0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic world, 1500–18000
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)0
The concept of universality and the universality of concepts: a comment0
Max before Marianne’s mythos: Weber’s early reception in Germany 1920–19270
Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony0
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present0
Taylor and Hobbes on toleration0
Beyond ‘civil religion’ – on Pascalian influence in Tocqueville0
The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece0
Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions0
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment0
Roger Scruton’s theory of the imagination and aesthetics as a formulation of Aristotelian virtue ethics0
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law0
Correction0
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
An anarchist take on royalty: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s evolving assessment of post-revolutionary monarchy, 1839–64. Part I0
The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
Under a merciless star: Mircea Eliade and the horror of history0
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s0
Robespierre: the man who divides us most0
Voltaire: from Newtonianism to Spinozism0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721) and the skeptics of his time0
Author’s Response0
Fragile sovereignty?0
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One0
Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times0
The dispute between Gandhi and De Ligt on the war justifications (1928–1930)0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’0
A newspaper for the Italian revolution: Giovanni Antonio Ranza’s Monitore italiano politico e letterario0
Afterword0
No escaping brutal reality: the death penalty in early modern utopias0
Correction0
Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal0
A Response to Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment0
The enlightenment and original sin0
Karl Korsch and Marxism’s interwar moment, 1917–19330
Eugen Ehrlich. Kontexte und Rezeptionen; Grundlegung der Soziologie des Rechts0
Scheler and Zambrano: on a transformation of the heart in Spanish philosophy0
‘The natural leader of the proletariat’: Eduard Bernstein on trade unions and the path to socialist cooperation0
Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series*0
Plagues and pantheism0
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
El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado (1593)0
Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation0
What the fetish does to the history of art0
Eighteenth-century German empirical psychology and the historiography of scientific objectivity0
Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–960
Comment on God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett, Oxford, University of Oxford Press, 20190
Zombies un-slayed: Malthusian Myopia in Lapland0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay0
A different antifascism. An analysis of the Rise of Nazism as seen by anarchists during the Weimar period0
Ethos, Leninism and perspective: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law0
‘Light on the enlightenment’ or ‘counter-enlightenment’?: Rereading Reinhart Koselleck’sCritique and Crisisin its context(s)0
Oakeshott’s skepticism, politics and aesthetics0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
Liberal constitution, civic enlightenment, and colonies: Jeremy Bentham on the Spanish empire0
The Pacifism of Bertrand Russell during the Great War0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy0
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)0
Experimental Philosophy: Rhetoric and Reality0
The paradoxical perfection of perfectibilité : from Rousseau to Condorcet0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
Who translated into French and annotated Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman ?0
Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci0
Reading and translating Algernon Sidney’sDiscoursesin early modern Germany0
Benjamin Constant, political power, and democracy0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
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
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