History of European Ideas
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Publishes research on the intellectual history of Europe from the Renaissance onwards, from political and economic thought to philosophy, science and literature
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History of European Ideas publishes articles (8k to 10k words) applying contextualist methods to post-1450 European intellectual history. Also, book reviews and editions of primary materials. Considering submitting something?
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New interview with Dagmar Herzog. Listen here: https://t.co/NwCaIUs3Y6
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The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today―and the courageous counter-voices. In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Dagmar Herzog about her new book The...
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[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] J. Colin McQuillan (St. Mary’s University, San Antonio), “Kant’s warning about self-observation in Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View,” IHR (2024). https://t.co/B644YJF83y.
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In a short section near the beginning of Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, Immanuel Kant warns that “observing oneself” can easily lead to “enthusiasm and madness.” The transcripts of hi...
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[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Andreas Blank (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), “Mably on historiography and the cure of the imagination,” IHR (2024). https://t.co/vGOHudKs1S.
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Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785) adopts the republican commonplace that social esteem is the suitable reward for civic virtue. At the same time, he emphasizes that distorted imagination makes it...
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Just the right side of 2025, I've reviewed David Caute's Red List (Verso, 2022) for @HEIjournal. Domestic surveillance isn't glamorous or, often, based on much more than a hunch lefties are worthy of suspicion. Free access below. https://t.co/W7CaYvxdtg
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Published in History of European Ideas (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2025)
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[🆕NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE 🔓 (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Andreas Rydberg (Uppsala University), “Impartial observations of a sensible mind” IHR (2024).
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This article contributes to the scholarly analysis of impartiality in the early modern period. While previous studies have focused on impartiality in law, history, philosophy and aesthetics, this a...
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It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @daniel_dsj2110 , @DominiqueReill , @samuelmoyn , @OrRosenboim, @DrHannahDawson , @AntonJaegermm , @DanielZamoraV
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Essay by Annelien de Dijn, Utrecht University 12 December 2024 | PDF: http://issforum.org/to/E602 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Series Editor: Diane Labrosse | Production Editor…
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New take on Republican hegemony as perpetual peace? Sieyès’s theory of international politics and the intellectual origins of Kant’s “federation of peoples” @AHarwoodBrown
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Although Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès remains amongst the most studied thinkers of the French Revolution, his views on international politics remain largely unexplored, despite his significant role in sh...
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[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] David Guerrero (University of Barcelona), ““You are a bad boy to keep sending me pretty books”: Harold Laski, Justice Holmes, and the origins of free speech as a “marketplace of ideas”” IHR (2024).
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In his dissent in the Abrams case (November 1919), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver W. Holmes coined the metaphor of a “free trade in ideas” to justify stronger free speech guarantees. This episte...
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From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: William J. Bulman (Lehigh) reviews Mark Goldie's Contesting the English Polity 1660-1688: Religion, Politics, and Ideas (Boydell, 2023) for HEI here: https://t.co/jbxrAztkHn
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Published in History of European Ideas (Vol. 50, No. 7, 2024)
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Congratulations to the editors and contributors on this Critical Guide, now in stock, which offers in-depth studies of #Hume’s wide-ranging, readable and very influential ‘Essays’ and assesses their place among his works and in #intellectualhistory more broadly
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From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: J. C. Walmsley's review of Jeffrey R. Collins's In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience (Cambridge, 2020). https://t.co/v5Bjb7ELC3
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Published in History of European Ideas (Vol. 50, No. 7, 2024)
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From vol. 50 iss. 7: Christopher Adair-Toteff (Southern Florida) pens a review essay on the recent two-volume Nietzsche-Kommentar: https://t.co/odPoGGW4Nh
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This review essay focuses on the recent two-volume Nietzsche-Kommentar which is devoted to Also Sprach Zarathustra but it utilizes the slightly earlier one on Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. This essay...
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[Open Access!] From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Andrew Walker (Cambridge) reviewed Eva Piirimäe's Herder and Enlightenment Politics (Cambridge, 2023) for HEI here: https://t.co/9ZV6Sh58jG
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Eva Piirimäe's Herder and Enlightenment Politics deserves recognition as a landmark study in the scholarship of Johann Gottfried Herder, and of eighteenth-century political thought more broadly. Pi...
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We are pleased to announce that the 2023 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Eva Piirimäe for her book Herder and Enlightenment Politics (CUP). https://t.co/ntm31ynqSv
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[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata), “When the giants freak out: the birth of the mind from the matter of the imagination in Vico’s Scienza nuova” IHR (2024).
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This article investigates the power and scope of the imagination in Giambattista Vico’s philosophy by focusing on the role played by the mind of the giants in their attempts to extricate themselves...
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[Open Access!] From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Jack Haughton (Cambridge) discusses Roger Scruton's Aristotelian understanding of aesthetics @Scruton_Legacy. https://t.co/MBEGSq9l9X
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Scholars who mention the turn to Aristotelian virtue ethics in the Mid-Twentieth Century tend to cite G. E. M. Anscombe’s famous ‘complaint’, and sometimes Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. It is ...
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From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Damian Shaw and Matthew Gibson (Macau) discuss a scripture-based denial of vampires by Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena in the 1730s: https://t.co/Vu3GqDohl7
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One of the earliest refutations of the Visum et Repertum (1732) by Johann Flückinger was from Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena, who attac...
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From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Po-Yu Wei (Wenzhou-Kean University) examines the depiction of French ragout in eighteenth-century English literature and how it reflected Anglo-French rivalries: https://t.co/bndHdeCiBO
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This essay examines the depiction of French ragout in eighteenth-century English literature, arguing that the dish reflects social apprehension regarding ideological, cultural, and military conflic...
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