Avi Lifschitz
@Diderotesque
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Historian @OxfordHistory, @MagdalenOxford, @VoltaireOxford & @OxfordCIH. Hovering between the 18th century and the 21st. Tweeting in personal capacity.
Oxford, Berlin, London.
Joined March 2014
Enlightened Absolutism, social contract, the ruler as ‘the first servant of the state’, critiques of Christianity and kingship by divine grace: all for less in the new paperback edition of Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings @PrincetonUPress.
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RT @MIHJournal: Now on FirstView: Why do we care about the Enlightenment? Sylvana Tomaselli @sylvana_st reflects on the Enlightenment we wa….
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RT @VoltaireOxford: How were 18thC Germans involved in transatlantic slavery, in the absence of an overseas empire? Morgan Golf-French (@fo….
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RT @OxfordCIH: 📢 New Blog. Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'. ht….
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RT @daniel_dsj2110: “The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students. The Martin Jay Prize recognize….
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RT @VoltaireOxford: Reading Voltaire's entire correspondence (over 20,000 letters in 45 vols) has its disadvantages and rewards, says Gilli….
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RT @OxfordCIH: 📢 New Blog . Read the final blog in our 'Democratic Identity' series | Anne Heyer, 'Searching for “Demokratin”? The Curi….
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RT @ItalianHistOx: We're delighted to announce an exciting workshop which will be held on 11 June @StEdmundHall:. "Space and Power in Early….
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RT @JanusProject_: Join us for our annual conference "Moral Education between East Asian and Greco-Roman Classics"! . June 19-20 in Oxford.….
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RT @RossMoncrieff: The Janus project conference on moral education between East Asian and Greco-Roman classics is coming up in two weeks ti….
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RT @OxfordCIH: There's still time to sign up for next week's graduate conference! See below for details ⬇️.
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RT @MrHistoryHead: Excited to announce this event I’m co-convening in Oxford, this September. We’ve got a brilliant line-up of speakers (my….
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RT @VoltaireOxford: 'Buffon and the degenerated human': Andrew Curran @wesleyan_u in an freely streamed lecture at @TurinHumanities, conven….
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RT @Warburg_News: Research the afterlives of antiquity with access to rich archives and resources in Berlin, Rome & London. Apply now for….
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RT @Diderotesque: The writings of a (self-styled) philosopher-king for only £11/$14! Order at the @PrincetonUPress sale by the end of May:….
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RT @OxfordCIH: Registration for our annual graduate conference is now open! To join us on the 5th of June, please register below ⬇️. https:….
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RT @DEPE_ERC: 48h left to register for attending our 2-day international conference on Improvement in early modern Sweden / Gustav Vasa sem….
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