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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin4
The persistence of party: ideas of harmonious discord in eighteenth-century Britain4
Anti-democracy in England 1570–16424
Translations in a time of crisis: the role of translators of Nietzsche, Sorel, and Bergson in addressing Edwardian political fragmentation, 1907–19154
Beyond the Enlightenment. Scottish intellectual life 1790–19143
Modern Times: A construction manual3
The thought they had lost: Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions and the contested legacies of the global 1960s3
Life, theory, and group identity in Hannah Arendt’s thought2
In what senses should we see John Stuart Mill as a socialist?2
High hopes before the fall: Otto Bauer and Oszkár Jászi on nationality and Habsburg rule in the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, 1907–182
Robespierre: the man who divides us most2
John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation2
Symposium on Gregory Conti's parliament the mirror of the nation: representation, deliberation and democracy in victorian Britain2
‘Intelligible government’: rethinking the meaning of monarchy in the age of King Charles III2
Introduction to the forum:new scholarship on religion in nineteenth-century German and British Culture2
Between Athens and the Port-Royal; contextualising Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Plato2
Jefferson’s unknown informant on Necker in 1789: an episode of diplomatic history involving Condorcet2
Spatial aspects in the work of Reinhart Koselleck2
Comment on The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude, by Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Leiden, Brill, 20191
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
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18001
Symposium on Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules1
Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works1
Reading Weber’s sociology of law1
Exploring the path not taken: introduction to the symposium on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief in Intuition1
Toward an authoritarian and populist monarchy in Belgium: Leopold III and Hendrik de Man during the 1930s crisis1
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable1
How to write about populism: on Me the People1
J. L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer1
The concept of mixed monarchy and the monarchical principle in the study of modern state systems1
Liberalism, the happy exception1
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?1
Raymond Aron and the moral and cultural conditions of liberal democracy during war time1
Beyond binary discourses on liberty: Constant's modern liberty, rightly understood1
Bodyguards, priests and professionals: Hungarian translators of French and German thought1
Exclusion, moderation and the game of party politics in Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy rules1
Max Weber’s interpretive sociology of law1
Not just defending, but deepening democracy: a discussion around Democracy Rules1
Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Idea of the Political as contribution to legal philosophy1
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity1
The languages of monarchism in interwar Yugoslavia, 1918–1941: variations on a theme1
Correction1
Kitromilides, Korais and the book of destinies1
Climatic imperialism and its descendants1
Rolling transition and the role of intellectuals: the case of Hungary1
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
‘The faith of man in himself:’ locating Feuerbach in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra1
Kissing the image: an allegory of imagination in ‘The Seducer’s Diary’1
The sacred in the civil law: the Homo Sacer and Sacratae Leges of the legal humanists1
The logic of the fetish in the present1
Beyond a ‘politics of warning’ against populism in Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy Rules1
What happened to the global 1960s? From anti-imperialism to human rights internationalism1
Reclaiming the southeastern European enlightenment and beyond1
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors1
To represent a people: Carl Schmitt and the monarchical principle1
The plight of the exception: why Carl Schmitt bid farewell to Hobbes1
Beyond Utopia : Thomas More as a political thinker1
Nationalism and Northern Ireland: a rejoinder to Ian McBride on ‘ethnicity and conflict’1
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot1
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 1
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 development1
Monarchy with An air of republicanism spread throughout’: the reformed monarchy of the marquis d’Argenson1
Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience1
The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau’s Social Contract0
Otto Hintze today0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
Correction0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
Slavery and the fetish0
The human good and the science of man0
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
Response to Adam Sutcliffe0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)0
The deist controversy and John Craig’s Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica (1699)0
Empire and Liberty in Adam Ferguson’s Republicanism0
A world safe for Catholicism: interwar international law and Neo-Scholastic universalism0
Challenging historicist utopianism: Karl Popper’s criticism of Karl Mannheim0
Leo Strauss: a political realist?0
François Quesnay, an antisemitic surgeon but not an antisemitic economist0
Modernity here and there, a response to comments on The Life and Death of States0
Tacistist and counter-Tacitist rhetoric in Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion0
Moderation in the Scottish Enlightenment: the case of Robert Wallace0
On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law0
Sociable individualism: Christian Jakob Kraus and the Königsberg Enlightenment0
Correction0
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
Postapocalyptic hope0
The political economy of Ireland and its counterfactuals0
Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries0
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s0
Bentham’s law reform association and the continuity of enlightenment in the nineteenth century0
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment0
The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces0
‘Giving up philosophy?’ On Part I of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
‘What they owe to their children’: Edmund Burke on parental love and liberty0
Adam Smith on the public provision of education0
Stalin versus Stalinism: uncovering Stalin's edits to the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course0
Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law0
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
The authorship of Sister Peg revisited: a reply to David Raynor’s response to ‘Let Margaret Sleep’0
Thinkers, writers and kinds of intellectual biographies: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
Eva Piirimäe on Herder’s political thought0
Ethos, Leninism and perspective: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism0
Harriet Taylor Mill0
Universalising colonial law principles on land law and land registration: the role of the Institut Colonial International (1894)0
Machiavelli: from radical to reactionary0
The historian, the shaman, and the werewolf0
Eighteenth-century German empirical psychology and the historiography of scientific objectivity0
Symposium on Natasha Wheatley’s The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty0
Slaying vampires in eighteenth-century Sweden0
Carl Schmitt as a reader of Juan Donoso Cortés: the concept of dictatorship as counterrevolution from 1848 to 19210
Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul0
José Gaos, Eduardo Nicol, and the criticism of cybernetics in Mexico0
Benjamin Constant, political power, and democracy0
Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation0
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
Beyond ‘civil religion’ – on Pascalian influence in Tocqueville0
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe0
The impossible modernization of legitimate monarchy after 1830: the journalists Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie and Eugène de Genoude0
The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom0
Anticlerical legacies: the deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes 1670–17400
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
Violence and power in the thought of Hannah Arendt0
Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history0
Listening to difference: J.G. Herder’s aural theory of cultural diversity in the ‘Treatise on the Origin of Language’ (1772)0
Entangled histories of revolution in Europe: translation and transnationalism0
Derrida and history: a failed approach Haunting history: for a deconstructive approach to the past , by Ethan Kleinberg, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2017, 208 p0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
Human Empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
La science des moeurs au siècle des lumières. Conceptions et expérimentations0
Tacitus in the Discorso politico of Ottavio Sammarco: from threat of war into politics0
An anarchist take on royalty: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s evolving assessment of post-revolutionary monarchy, 1839–64. Part II0
Correction0
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
Reading Lipsius in early modern Italy: Ercole Cato and the transformation of thePoliticorum Libri Sex0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
Russian political philosophy: anarchy, authority, autocracy0
The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750–18500
The notorious Dr. Middleton: David Hume and the Ninewells years0
On the concept of Volk in Carl Schmitt0
The puzzle of the sovereign’s smile and the inner complexity of Hobbes’s theory of authorisation0
‘Fervent spenglerians:’ romanising the historic morphology of cultures in Spain (1922–1938)0
Protestantism, revolution and Scottish political thought: the European context, 1637-16510
The Last Last Man? a speculation on speculative politics0
‘Let Margaret Sleep’: putting to bed the authorship controversy overSister Peg0
Searching for ‘Moderate Enlightenment’: From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock0
J.S. Mill on Bentham’s incomplete mind0
Articulating women's bodies: Montesquieu, Diderot, and the imperial and settler-colonial politics of gender and sexuality0
Hannah Arendt: a very short introduction0
‘The natural leader of the proletariat’: Eduard Bernstein on trade unions and the path to socialist cooperation0
Transformation, disfigurement, or polarised invigoration? On Nadia Urbinati’s Me the People0
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
Conservatism0
The idea of the common good in the young Marx and nonutilitarian consequentialism0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
Thinking differently: Italian feminism beyond essentialism0
No escaping brutal reality: the death penalty in early modern utopias0
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
The French and Spanish monarchies in the embassy writings of Machiavelli and Guicciardini0
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
Maturity and individuality in the later writings of J.S. Mill: a unified account0
The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece0
Women moralists in early modern France0
Redescribing the Machiavellian prince. The idea of monarchy in Giovanni Botero’s Della Ragion di Stato (1589)0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man0
The Buddhism of Wagner and Nietzsche and their indebtedness to Schopenhauer0
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century0
The art of being in the eighteenth century: Adam Smith on fortune, luck, and trust0
The politics of an inclusive parliament: on Gregory Conti's Parliament the Mirror of the Nation0
An anarchist take on royalty: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s evolving assessment of post-revolutionary monarchy, 1839–64. Part I0
Thomas Reid and the University0
Enlightening Book History: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
Symposium on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist0
Why the socialist Mill will not alarm his liberal readers: a reflection on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist0
Monarchy, universalism, imperialism in Giovanni Botero’s Relazioni universali0
Excessive self-esteem, and the social consequences of Mandeville’s analysis: a comment on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Rethinking Constant’s ancient liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism0
Berkeley’sPassive Obedience: positive and negative norms0
Comment on Kaiser, Christ and Canaan: the religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918, by Paul Michael Kurtz, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 20180
‘The Long Arc of Legality’0
Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty0
Sharing Freedom: republicanism and exclusion in revolutionary France0
Zombies un-slayed: Malthusian Myopia in Lapland0
Realist teachings: a chronology of Tacitism in the northern Netherlands0
Response to comments: Of Rule and Office: Plato’s ideas of the political0
Liberal constitution, civic enlightenment, and colonies: Jeremy Bentham on the Spanish empire0
What the fetish does to the history of art0
America’s philosopher: John Locke in American intellectual life America’s philosopher: John Locke in American intellectual life , by Claire Rydell Arcenas, Chicago &0
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
Natural contra human sciences: the conflict between nomothetic and idiographic sciences, with special reference to S. J. Boëthius0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
Freedom, silent power and the role of an historian in the digital age – Interview with Quentin Skinner0
Fairy-tale prince or voivode? Royalist propaganda and theories of monarchy under Carol II of Romania0
Reading and translating Algernon Sidney’sDiscoursesin early modern Germany0
Jens Kraft’s account of Indigenous peoples’ principal institutions: an eighteenth-century perspective on political anthropology0
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
Radical ideas and the crisis of Christianity in England, 1640–1740: the politics of religion0
The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States0
Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein through the meanders of scientific pacifism0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
Fascism as a recurring possibility: Zeev Sternhell, the anti-Enlightenment, and the intellectual history of European modernity0
Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement0
Radical translation at the ‘Break of Day’: Thomas Paine in a Celtic language0
In search of the historical Newton: on Part III of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness0
Correction0
Religious progress and perfectibility in Benjamin Constant’s enlightened liberalism0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
Florentius Schuyl and the origin of the beast-machine controversy0
Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen0
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment0
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
Mobility and surveillance in Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost : decentring an absolutist order of knowledge and information0
Infrastructural strains on scholarly transnational collaboration in eighteenth-century Europe. The logistics of knowledge in making Thomas Mangey’s Philonis Judaei Opera 1728–420
Phillipson’s Hume in Phillipson's Scottish Enlightenment0
Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment0
‘The Greeks Call It Horme ’: Hobbes’ anti-Aristotelian account of human action0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
A reformation to end the revolution: Germaine de Staël and the struggle for republican mores under directory France0
Free Market: The History of an Idea0
Mill before Liberalism (parts I and II)0
In the shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the politics of conscience0
The king’s two bodies and the Crown a corporation sole: historical dualities in English legal thinking0
Under a merciless star: Mircea Eliade and the horror of history0
Reimagining conservatism in a post-liberal future0
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology , by Richard Wolin, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2023, xi–xi0
A global enlightenment: Western progress and Chinese science0
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
Descartes in context0
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
Law and moral theology in Christian Europe: the limits of sacralization in the late works of Paolo Prodi0
Assessing ‘unnatural lusts’: John Locke on the permissibility of male-male intimacy0
Marriage, morals, and progress: J.S. Mill and the early feminists0
Democracy and Tocqueville’s aesthetics of the revolution0
Classified by their classifications: nineteenth-century library classifications in context0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
Menasseh ben-Israel and reason of state: the intersection of ideas and politics in the petitions to re-settle Iberian Jewry (1645–1655)0
The aesthetics of the invisible: George Berkeley and the modern aesthetics0
Understanding sociability through Mandevillean pride: comments on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
Camus and Rousseau: freedom, justice and ‘the despotism of the general will’0
Secularised Augustinianism: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
The sceptre of moderation: Montlosier and the emergence of the modern right in the French counter-revolution0
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