Lectures in Intellectual History

Hobbes, Rousseau and Democratic Politics

The political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is typically identified with two aspects of that...

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Marxism and the Middle Ages

Marxist theory has had a massive influence on medieval economic and social history. Lots of...

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Aristotle on the Ethics of Wealth

Aristotle's conception of wealth begins with the distinction he makes between two spheres of...

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The 'Family of Nations': A rhetorical figure and its ideology

The best known example in the history of international law might be the so-called domestic...

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Moral Knowledge and the Decline of the Grotian Programme

In the 17th and early 18th centuries in Britain, there were no clear divisions between what we...

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How to Plan a Global History of Political Thought

What can we learn from the past, and from different traditions as they exist in the world? And...

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The Republican Theorist as Royal Servant: James Harrington's Civil War

It is generally accepted that the 17th century republican thinker James Harrington, author of The...

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Barons' Wars, under other names: Magna Carta, Royalism, and the American Founding

How are we to understand the political thought of the American Revolution? One view - which is...

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Barons' Wars, under other names: Magna Carta, Royalism, and the American Founding

How are we to understand the political thought of the American Revolution? One view - which is...

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A genealogy of liberty

Among contemporary political theorists in the West, the idea of individual liberty is generally...

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The Enlightenment Narrative in the Age of Liberal Reform: William Robertson in Hungary

Was there a family resemblance between the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland and the...

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The contribution of the history of exegesis to the history of ideas

As Protestantism entered the modern world its biblical spirituality, on the one hand, inspired a...

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Liberty before neo-Roman republicanism: Haller’s restoration of political science

For many Jacobins, Rousseau was a saintly figure who provided the blueprint for society. In light...

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The Alexander Romance and the Birth of the Ottoman Empire

During the period that saw the creation of the classical Ottoman Empire, the Alexander of...

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The Forgotten Range of Defences of Sociability: Hutcheson and Campbell on Hobbes

Most philosophers think that, as a matter of fact, most human beings live in some sort of...

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Ce que nous allons devenir. Belgian national identity in eighteenth-century revolution

In 1787 Joseph II decreed a series of administrative reforms for his Belgian provinces,...

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Why We Need a History of Political Thought

Political thinking anywhere in the world today, as always, is irretrievably contextual. It takes...

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The History of Dialectical History: The Case of International Law

There are presently two main ways of writing the history of international law, one using the...

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Reading and Remembering: Intellectual History and the Commonplace Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

A commonplace book, as eighteenth-century British people generally understood the term, was a...

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Hume, Smith and the Science of Man in Scotland

It is fairly conventional now to think of the 'science of man' as possibly the signal...

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