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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Meaning and understanding: Robin Douglass’ reappraisal of Mandeville’s works5
The thought they had lost: Richard Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions and the contested legacies of the global 1960s4
Dante’s Italy: national sentiment and world government4
Reading Weber’s sociology of law4
Thinking Europe: a history of the European idea since 18004
The sociological heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment4
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought3
Correction3
Plus ça change : continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot3
The discovery of the century—an early version of Descartes’ Regulae : more questions than answers?3
The good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the rise of a philosophical paradigm3
The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin2
Grenville on Neutral Trade during the Napoleonic Wars2
Introduction: Tacitism2
Prophets, resurgences, and the truth: in discussion with Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times2
Victoria Welby2
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Julien Benda’s political Europe and the treason of intellectuals2
Alternative Futures and Transition Mechanisms: Confronting The End of Enlightenment with Richard Whatmore2
Principles and agents: the British slave trade and its abolition2
Review essay: Ugo Spirito Comes Full Circle2
Procedural containment vs. substantive entrenchment: two early models of militant democracy2
Voilà un siècle de lumières!’: Horace Walpole and the Hume-Rousseau affair2
Secularization and de-legitimation: Hans Jonas and Karl Löwith on Martin Heidegger2
Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the prophetic imagination2
Translating revolution into poetry: the case of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s hymns2
The political journalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814–1815): an attempt to define representative government2
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide2
Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography2
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18002
Imaginary liberalisms2
Women moralists in early modern France1
A world safe for Catholicism: interwar international law and Neo-Scholastic universalism1
On the concept of Volk in Carl Schmitt1
The aesthetics of the invisible: George Berkeley and the modern aesthetics1
Authority or anarchy: Strauss’ critique of Kelsen1
Sectarianism in Philosophy: A Conversation with Ian Hunter1
Reading Lipsius in early modern Italy: Ercole Cato and the transformation of thePoliticorum Libri Sex1
The repair manual of democracy: on Jan-Werner Müller's Democracy Rules1
José Gaos, Eduardo Nicol, and the criticism of cybernetics in Mexico1
Counting Books in Gary Kates's The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
‘Giving up philosophy?’ On Part I of Dmitri Levitin’s The Kingdom of Darkness1
Grenville on War Finance and the Sinking Fund1
History, Law, and Empire in Montesquieu, William Blackstone, and John Adams1
The authorship of Sister Peg1
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
Democratic republicanism and political competence in treatments of radical Enlightenment1
Kant’s impact on moral philosophy1
Why the socialist Mill will not alarm his liberal readers: a reflection on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist1
Gibbon’s Christianity: religion, reason, and the fall of Rome1
Law and moral theology in Christian Europe: the limits of sacralization in the late works of Paolo Prodi1
Tocqueville against Guizot? On Gianna Englert’s Democracy Tamed1
Harriet Taylor Mill1
Sharing Freedom: republicanism and exclusion in revolutionary France1
Editors’ introduction: political myth in the twentieth century1
Correction1
Calculated values: finance, politics and the quantitative age1
Nietzsche’s on the genealogy of morality: a guide1
Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment1
Rethinking Constant’s ancient liberty: Bosanquet’s modern Rousseauianism1
Tacitus for the instruction of ambassadors: Vera’s Enbaxador (1620)1
Radical ideas and the crisis of Christianity in England, 1640–1740: the politics of religion1
Adam Smith on the public provision of education1
Right-hegelianism redivivus. Considerations on Richard Bourke’s Hegel's World Revolutions1
On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law1
Introduction to the forum:new scholarship on religion in nineteenth-century German and British Culture1
Political realism, poetical imagination, prophecy: discussing Maurizio Viroli’s prophetic times1
Cold war liberalism in West Germany: Richard Löwenthal and ‘Western civilization’1
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18001
Correction1
Giovanni Botero, Commercial Empire and the Greatness of Venice1
The Weirdest People in the World: how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous1
Introduction to the symposium on Eileen M. Hunt’s The First Last Man1
Populism, Power and Proportionalism in Nadia Urbinati's Me the People1
Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France1
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
Empire and Liberty in Adam Ferguson’s Republicanism1
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
Bridling the Prince: Humanist Counsel and Its Perils in Jean Calvin’s Seneca Commentary1
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles0
The law of nations in international political thought0
Free Market: The History of an Idea0
The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianism0
Harold Laski, the reluctant Marxist: socialist democracy for a world in turmoil0
Reading and translating Algernon Sidney’sDiscoursesin early modern Germany0
Eighteenth-century German empirical psychology and the historiography of scientific objectivity0
Symposium on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
La science des moeurs au siècle des lumières. Conceptions et expérimentations0
‘A gadding passion’: envy and the role of ‘civil and moral’ knowledge in Francis Bacon’s political thought0
Fanaticism and Crisis at the End of Enlightenment0
A reply to a symposium on Colin Ward and the art of anarchy0
Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue0
Beyond binary discourses on liberty: Constant's modern liberty, rightly understood0
The concept of universality and the universality of concepts: a comment0
Comment on Kaiser, Christ and Canaan: the religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918, by Paul Michael Kurtz, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 20180
The political thought of David Hume: the origin of liberalism and the modern political imagination0
Simone de Beauvoir: elements on women in the history of philosophy0
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity0
A comment on Maurizio Viroli’s Prophetic Times0
Understanding sociability through Mandevillean pride: comments on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
Otto Hintze today0
I Lumi in Viaggio. Itinerari nell’Odeporica Settecentesca0
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
A newspaper for the Italian revolution: Giovanni Antonio Ranza’s Monitore italiano politico e letterario0
Hobbes, ius gentium, and the corporation0
A political economy of power: ordoliberalism in context, 1932-19500
The West: A New History of an Old Idea0
Lord William Wyndham Grenville and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade0
Pocock and Meinecke, Machiavellianism and Historicism0
Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history0
Experimental Philosophy: Rhetoric and Reality0
Blumenberg: on bringing myth to an end0
Eugen Ehrlich: A Reappraisal0
The birth of modern legal science from the spirit of the dual monarchy: on Natasha Wheatley's The Life and Death of States0
Florentius Schuyl and the origin of the beast-machine controversy0
A smorgasbord of print: the development of scholarly publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–18800
Cultural competition in the Italian Left: Mario Spinella and the beginnings of La scienza nuova book series*0
Mill, socialism, and utilitarianism: on Helen McCabe’s John Stuart Mill, socialist0
Montesquieu’s heirs? On Gianna Englert’s Democracy Tamed0
Scheler and Zambrano: on a transformation of the heart in Spanish philosophy0
Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on skepticisms and honesty0
Grenville’s War and Post-War Views on Money in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain0
Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times : on the need for foundations0
Enlightenment anthropology. defining humanity in an Era of colonialism0
Adam Smith and Agriculture: The Political Economy of the ‘Unnatural and Retrograde’ Order Revisited0
Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy: critical reflections on Martin Jay0
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of exemplarity: from the early engagement with historiography to Leviathan0
British ideas for new colonial universities at the end of empire0
The promise of monsters0
The depths of freedom: comments on Adriana Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief In Intuition0
Rickert's ‘conceptual’ limits: a review essay on Heinrich Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung0
Plagues and pantheism0
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann0
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France0
Correction0
Correction0
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism0
Review of recovering classical liberal political economy: natural rights and the harmony of interests0
Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal0
Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism , by Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni0
The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth0
Arthur J. Penty and the politics of the architectural profession, 1906–19370
Thinking differently: Italian feminism beyond essentialism0
A reformation to end the revolution: Germaine de Staël and the struggle for republican mores under directory France0
Robespierre: the man who divides us most0
On Pietz doing history0
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law0
Sociable individualism: Christian Jakob Kraus and the Königsberg Enlightenment0
The Peaceful Revolution of Solidarity. Pierre Leroux on its Implications for Democracy, Sovereignty and Representation0
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable0
An anarchist take on royalty: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s evolving assessment of post-revolutionary monarchy, 1839–64. Part I0
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)0
The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems0
The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment0
La Peyrère’s influence on Vico’s historical reconstruction: from pre-Adamism to the plurality of history0
Decoding Robert Greene's Critique of Newton's Natural Philosophy through His Analysis of Locke's Epistemology0
Descartes in context0
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe0
Mary Shepherd (Elements on women in the history of philosophy)0
Between Athens and the Port-Royal; contextualising Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Plato0
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
Roger Scruton’s theory of the imagination and aesthetics as a formulation of Aristotelian virtue ethics0
An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy0
Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions0
Correction0
The pragmatic and solidarity-based Europeanism of Jacques Delors0
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
Contesting the English polity 1660–1688: religion, politics, and ideas0
Prophetic times. Visions of emancipation in the history of Italy0
Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law0
Who’s black and why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
Extending translation, connecting viewpoints and scaling policies and agency: three challenges for translation historians of the French Revolution0
A Republic of Sympathy: Sophie de Grouchy’s Politics and Philosophy 1785–18150
Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan0
In the shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the politics of conscience0
Reflections on Mandeville’s Fable : a reply0
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present0
Rereading Karl Marx: William Walton as a source of a ideology0
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One0
Who translated into French and annotated Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman ?0
Two cheers for Anarchia : Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office and democratic magistracies0
Marriage, morals, and progress: J.S. Mill and the early feminists0
Human empire: mobility and demographic thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–18000
Correction0
The Reception of Emilie Du Châtelet: Enlightenment Philosophy and the Patriarchy0
Benjamin Constant, political power, and democracy0
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith: an early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)0
Debating Gender in Eighteenth-Century France: Contesting the ‘Letter to d’Alembert’0
Early modern natural law in East-Central Europe0
The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’0
Slaying vampires in eighteenth-century Sweden0
The enlightenment and original sin0
Oakeshott’s skepticism, politics and aesthetics0
The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy0
Rousseau on multiplying partial associations0
Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion , by Peter Heather, Allen Lane, 2022, xxiv and 676pp., £350
Comment on The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude, by Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Leiden, Brill, 20190
Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries0
The idea of technology in cold war political thought: media, modernity and freedom0
An unrealised project? —Isaiah Berlin and the philosophy of history0
Author’s Response0
Political theory and political judgement: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times0
Comment on God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett, Oxford, University of Oxford Press, 20190
Taste and the claims of war: the Kantian sublime and the function of war in public aesthetic judgement0
Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–960
Liberalism, the happy exception0
The opacity of a system T.R. Malthus and the population in principle0
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword: Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world0
Multiple forms of precarity in Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost0
Antonio Negri and the discourse on poverty – on two motifs inKairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo0
John Stuart Mill’s view on democracy and government in Gregory Conti’s Parliament the Mirror of the Nation0
Emanuele Severino and the lógos of téchne : an introduction0
Ethos, Leninism and perspective: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century0
Diderot and the ideal of paternalistic monarchy. An enlightenment struggle against moral decay and for political harmony0
John Henry Newman, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Languages of Liberalism0
Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia and contemporary princes on photomontage as an example of popular and figurative Machiavellianism0
What the fetish does to the history of art0
The Young Jules Michelet and the Sources of Morality0
From secularisations to political religions*0
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics0
‘The natural leader of the proletariat’: Eduard Bernstein on trade unions and the path to socialist cooperation0
Natural contra human sciences: the conflict between nomothetic and idiographic sciences, with special reference to S. J. Boëthius0
The Challenge of Distance: Adam Smith on Empire and Liberty0
Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment0
Taylor and Hobbes on toleration0
The scholastic’s dilemma: Hobbes critique of scholastic politics and papal power on the Leviathan frontispiece0
Introduction to a Review Symposium on Robin Douglass’s Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability0
Aesthetics and gender in Richard Whatmore's The End of Enlightenment0
Andrew lang: writer, folklorist, democratic intellect0
Emer de Vattel in context: the moral philosophical foundations of a natural law for states0
Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci0
Fragile sovereignty?0
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism0
The influence of classical Stoicism on Walt Whitman’s thought and work0
Max before Marianne’s mythos: Weber’s early reception in Germany 1920–19270
Elasticity, militancy, and infection: metaphorical argumentation in the trial against the German Communist Party, 1954–560
Looking backward, looking forward0
‘The vampire hypothesis’: from fingernails to ministering angels – the first Swedish debunker0
El Rey Prudente. Philip II and Tiberius in Antonio de Herrera’s Diez Libros de la Razón de Estado (1593)0
Secular foundations of the liberal state in Victorian Britain0
Gabriele Pedullà’s On Niccolò Machiavelli: the bonds of politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023)0
At last, the last (wo)man responds to (her) readers and critics0
Afterword0
A Response to Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment0
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