Early Modern Political Thought
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This most recent edition of the bibliography contains almost 21,200 titles in English (64%) and French (36%), with an introductory section on historiography. It deals with every aspect of Italian history and culture from the Late... more
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X20000473 Frederick II's writings have conventionally been viewed either as political tools or as means of public self-fashioning – part of his campaign to raise the status of Prussia from middling... more
This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals’ vision of a 'godly' commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, and intellectual changes in Tudor England. Using the clergyman and bestselling author,... more
Norman Kemp Smith in his article “The Naturalism of Hume” formulated standard naturalistic interpretation David Hume’s philosophical project. According to Kemp Smith, the idea of Hume as a skeptic is unsustainable. The first book of A... more
Il saggio intende dimostrare che, subito dopo la pubblicazione, da parte di Alberico Gentili, dei De iuris interpretibus Dialogi sex (1582) e delle Lectiones et Epistolae (1583-1584) i rapporti fra Jean Hotman e il giurista di San Ginesio... more
In Dutch nationalist historiography the Revolt against the Spanish monarchy has traditionally been considered a war of independence, fought by a small, freedom loving people against a much stronger and oppressive enemy wanting to impose... more
Course Description: A continuation of the Classical Mind, the Modern Mind is an introduction to modern philosophy focusing on texts from selected early modern and modern thinkers. The class builds upon the history, thought concepts, and... more
Conventional understandings of Catholicism, especially the claim that the pope held temporal power over all civil rulers, presented a signal challenge to early American Catholics’ civil and religious liberty. Yet reform-minded Catholics... more
Questo articolo parte dalla ricostruzione del modello aristotelico di amicizia fornita nel ‘Brief of the Art of Rhetorique’ e dai motivi della critica hobbesiana a questo modello per esaminare il modo in cui l’amicizia lavora nel discorso... more
A focal point of twentieth-century commentary on Hobbes has been the few paragraphs in chapter 15 of Leviathan where Hobbes presents the objections of someone he calls the Foole and then sets out to meet these objections. The Foole... more
Virtù sabiduría, prudencia y fuerza para la construcción del Estado según Nicolás Maquiavelo. El concepto Virtù de en "De Priincipatubus", Grin Publishing, ISBN-10: 3656598487, ISBN-13: 978-3656598480. Nicolás Maquiavelo es uno de los... more
If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it... more
Contemporary theories of sovereignty often focus on how the idea of sovereignty, as supreme and absolute power, can be made compatible with the limitations and restrictions introduced by the principles of federalism and separation of... more
Suddenly Don Quijote doubts his squire’s embassy. It would be miraculous for Sancho to have returned in just over three days because El Toboso is more than thirty leagues away, seventy-five miles or one hundred and twenty-five kilometers... more
«Secondo la diversità de’ tempi […] mutarsi e trovarsi novi modi di vivere non solamente non è inconveniente, ma è cosa necessaria». Così il Savonarola il 16 dicembre 1494, ossia un mese dopo che la cacciata di Piero de’ Medici da Firenze... more
While John Foxe’s sixteenth century Actes and Monuments (Book of Martyrs) is recognized as a foundational document for an emergent English national identity and a key record of early Protestant subjectivity, I argue that this document of... more
We can almost hear the gears turning in Sancho Panza’s head. His immediate reaction is to devise a get-rich scheme: “I renounce henceforth the government of the promised isle.” All he wants now is for Don Quijote to give him the recipe... more
In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust takes the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, back to the corpus mysticum of the medieval church. Rust argues that the communitarian ideal of sacramental sociality had a far... more
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire... more
Hamlet can be best described as the play of dispossession. Not only has the hero been dispossessed or, in other words, usurped, but so has the text. In this paper, I will be addressing the famous question of delay. My argument in this... more
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings includes the Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and “Preface to Narcissus.” Each text has been newly translated, and... more
Perhaps still a needed corrective.
The table of contents of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
La tesis que intentaremos sostener a lo largo de nuestro trabajo es que las producciones filosóficas de Sébastien Castellion, Jean Bodin y Michel de Montaigne, y las diversas posiciones asumidas por cada uno en particular frente al... more
From amazon.com: ""Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova,... more
Dissertação apresentada como requisito para obtenção do grau Mestre em Filosofia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação Lógica e Metafísica do Departamento de Filosofia da UFRJ. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a correspondência integral... more
Where to start when talking about _Don Quijote_? It's only the greatest book of all time!
I start our look at chapter four of _Don Quijote_, part one with an image that helps us reflect on the meaning of the previous chapter and many to come. _The Burghers of Calais_ is a bronze statue by Auguste Rodin sculpted in 1888. Like... more
This article seeks to determine to what extent the emotional struggle between the two protagonists of Tristan L'Hermite's La Mariane might be read as a representation of the passionate struggle for sovereignty between the king and the... more
Notions such as 'states-system' and 'international system' are central to IR. Yet, they have been neglected in our study of conceptual history. This paper focuses on the 17th-century debate about the status of the Holy Roman Empire as a... more
Etica di Machiavelli. La fortuna di Machiavelli in Russia dal XV al XXI secolo. 2 monografie (del 1980 e del 1998) su N.Machiavelli riedite sotto il titolo "Machiavelli. Morale, politica, fortuna".