Showing papers in "History of European Ideas in 2004"

TL;DR: Linnaeus was born in the Swedish village of Stenbrohult, Smalund in 1707, and by the time he was 11, Sweden had lost her Baltic empire and the king had been murdered, creating a period of politica...

TL;DR: Benton's most radical proposals for political reform came not in the so-called "Essay on Representation" composed in late 1788 and early 1789, as has traditionally been assumed, but in his ‘Projet of a Constitutional Code for France' composed in the autumn of 1789 as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Hobson as mentioned in this paper argued that alterity and festivity are human traits that merit political and legal recognition, and used crowd phenomena to bolster his own brand of social-democratic liberalism.

TL;DR: Tocqueville as discussed by the authors argued that any adequate definition of democracy had to include, not only social equality, but also political liberty and the participation of citizens in a government incorpo...

TL;DR: Constant's writings of the Restoration years show his abiding interest in both the construction of viable political institutions and the promotion of a vibrant political life as discussed by the authors, and his refutations of Auguste Comte and the Saint-Simonians, and his writings on religion, should be seen as offering pointed lessons to fellow liberals about the crucial importance of both politics and the moral values promoted by religious freedom.

TL;DR: In the early modern period (16-18th centuries), churches and state administrations alike strove to eradicate Evil as discussed by the authors, and neither they nor society at large accepted a conceptual differentiation between crime and sin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight some under-researched aspects of the interaction between British and French radical political thinkers and activists during the period between the July Revolution of 1830 in France and the early years of the Third Republic.

TL;DR: A collection of historical essays is one of several similar volumes celebrating the centenary of the British Academy, bringing together historians with an interest in the political economy of Br... as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors examines Tocqueville's conception of the social against the background of debates over the relationship between the social and the political in France from the Revolution to mid-century, focusing on three groups: those associated with the social philosophy of industrialism, those concerned with the evils of pauperism from the standpoint of Catholic social reform, and those allied with the new Doctrinaire view of society and politics.

TL;DR: This article examined Constant's analysis of character during the French Revolution and found that the revolution had unleashed violent passions that led to fanaticism, rebelliousness, and the search for vengeance, and that the chaos of revolutionary violence had led others to resignation, isolation and a focus on narrow self-interest.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors argued that the ontological argument for the existence of a God can be seen as a bulwark against scepticism and Kant's paradox of the thing-in-itself.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the differences and similarities between Kant's and Hobbes's political views and evaluate the effectiveness of Kant's criticism, and conclude that both Hobbes and Kant emphasize peace and order under sovereign power.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the tragic nature of the struggles for recognition which are instantiated by these phenomena, and the tragic interpenetration of culture and intersubjective recognition.

TL;DR: Bax's understanding of the French Revolution gave body to his philosophy and greatly influenced his understanding of political struggle as mentioned in this paper, and the lessons from this history shaped his socialist republicanism and his support for Jacobin methods of revolutionary change.

TL;DR: Carlo Ginzburg is best known as the author of a popular and widely commented work of microstoria Il formaggio e i vermi, published in 1976 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Hume is normally taken to be a legal conventionalist as mentioned in this paper, but the nature of this conventionalism has not been well understood, and scholars have often interpreted David Hume as being largely indifferent to the specifics of the laws, so long as they accomplish their basic task of protecting people's property.

TL;DR: Goya's representations of the body disrupt the Enlightenment's configurations of the corporeal body and its functions within culture as mentioned in this paper, and the body is both the site of ideal beauty and the limit of what can and may be represented, and Goya's panoply of monsters provides a way of understanding other modes of reason(ing), other ways of representing the body and their functions in culture.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the singularity of the ego is the same as that of Kant's pre-intellectual form of spatiotemporal intuitions, and that this form is sufficient for the constitution of a "single thing" indifferently construable as both space and time.

TL;DR: In this article, the late-Victorian and Edwardian influences on the popular historian, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985), in the 20th century are considered, and they conclude that Bryant is a vital link between the late 19th century'moment' of Englishness and its recent revival among Conservative thinkers, publicists and politicians.

TL;DR: In the context of the Society for French Historical Studies conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in April 2003, this paper discussed the relationship between the social and the political in the French Revolution and the importance of character and morals as a foundation of a viable liberal polity.

TL;DR: Scholarly interest in the delineation of the history of republican political thought has surely never been more prevalent than it is today as discussed by the authors, and the contemporary utility as well as the validity of attem...

TL;DR: The authors argue that Kant's speculative metaphysics also is a response to classical ontological metaphysics, by providing two realms or perspectives, a natural and a noumenal, avoiding many difficulties resulting from Hobbes and Hume's starting point in sense leading to imagination and a non-normative reason.

TL;DR: The current interest in Kant in the North American debate on criminal punishment arise from a deceptive hope: Kant seems as a sort of "antidote" useful to mitigate the results of correctional and merely intimidatory practice.

TL;DR: The authors examines the method of the French Doctrinaires by focusing primarily on the historical writings of their most prominent representative, Francois Guizot (1787-1874), and provides an in-depth analysis of the Doctrinaiers' historical and sociological mode of argument.