HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS

Two essays: I. The desert and the city: reading the history of civilisation in Ibn Khaldun after Edward Gibbon. II. Rational enthusiasm and angelicality: the concept of prophecy in Ibn Khaldun and Edward Gibbon

Silencing the laws to save the fatherland: Rousseau’s theory of dictatorship between Bodin and Schmitt

Global ‘revolution’ in the early nineteenth-century Finnish press

Cicero’s duties and Adam Smith’s sentiments: how Smith adapts Cicero’s account of self-interest, virtue, and justice

Paradoxes of liberalism

Shame in early modern thought: from sin to sociability

Charlemagne, Common Sense, and Chartism: how Robert Blakey wrote his History of Political Literature

A debate on Spain’s regions in Franco’s times: the Spanish federal council of the European movement through Salvador de Madariaga’s correspondence

A rejoinder to J.G.A. Pocock

The natural kingdom of God in Hobbes’s political thought

Bentham on asceticism and tyranny

The construction of an international: Debord, Jorn, and situationist praxis

What moral philosophers can learn from the history of moral concepts

Hans in Luck or the moral economy of happiness in the modern age

The rediscovery of the Spanish Republic of Letters

James Boswell and Corsica 1728–1768: the development of British opinion during the Corsican revolt

John Macmurray and the politics of rationality in interwar Britain

Shakespeare as a method. Carl Schmitt’s reading of Othello and Hamlet

Will and artifice: the impact of voluntarist theology on early-modern science

The radicalism of modesty: democracy and art in Camusian thought (1945–1951)

Masturbation, modernity, and the Swiftian diagnosis re-examined

Gramsci and the issue of religion: Catholic modernism and the Italian Partito Popolare

Aquinas and Józef Tischner on hope: as part of the intellectual legacy of the Polish Solidarity movement

Enlightenment and Empire, Mughals and Marathas: the Religious History of India in the work of East India Company servant, Alexander Dow

How contempt became a passion

Adam Ferguson on the Perils of Popular Factions and Demagogues in a Roman Mirror

Why liberalism’s roots don’t sprout equally

Textual context in the history of political thought and intellectual history

Millar and his circle. A Preface

Hume and Smith on utility, agreeableness, propriety, and moral approval

Mill’s closet: J.S. Mill on solitude and the imperfect democracy

John Millar’s theses for admission as an advocate

Introduction: Millar and his circle

Sovereignty, mercy, and natural law: King James VI/I and Jean Bodin

The reasonable republic? Statecraft, affects, and the highest good in Spinoza’s late Tractatus Politicus

Republican monarchy in the 1830 revolutions: from Lafayette to the Belgian Constitution

The return of the intolerant Hobbes

Tolerance and religious pluralism in Bayle

‘Next to godliness?’ exploring cleanliness in peace and war

Conscience: what is its history and does it have a future?

Can states trust each other?

A (false) portrait of Machiavelli and the origins of iconographic anti-Machiavellism: genesis, fortunes, and propagation of ‘La Testina’

Robert Persons’s Conference and the Salic Law debate in France, 1584–1594

Mary Shelley’s ‘Romantic Spinozism’