Intellectual History Review, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2024)

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The Descriptio Silentii of Celio Calcagnini: deconstructing the ineffable?
Robin Raybould
Pages: 271-297
Published online: 10 Jan 2023
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Humanists and scholastics in early sixteenth-century Paris: new sources from the Faculty of Theology
Christa Lundberg
Pages: 299-315
Published online: 20 Dec 2022
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Hobbesian resistance and the law of nature
Samuel Mansell
Pages: 317-341
Published online: 09 Feb 2023
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Self-observational life in eighteenth-century Germany
Andreas Rydberg
Pages: 343-364
Published online: 23 Jan 2023
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The structure of Hume’s historical thought before the History of England
Pedro Faria
Pages: 365-387
Published online: 20 Dec 2022
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Seeing and telling the invisible: problems of a new epistemic category in the second half of the eighteenth century
Nathalie Vuillemin
Pages: 389-400
Published online: 13 Mar 2023
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Enslaved by African angels: Swedenborg on African superiority, evangelization, and slavery
Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
Pages: 401-431
Published online: 17 Apr 2023
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Republican nostalgia, the division of labour, and the origins of inequality in the thought of the Abbé Sieyès
Angus Harwood Brown
Pages: 433-456
Published online: 05 Dec 2022
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Review Article
What is Enlightenment?
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, by Benjamin M. Friedman. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2021, xv, 534 pp., $37.50 (hb), ISBN: 978–0593317983; $20.00 (pb), ISBN 978-0593311097 [also available as an Ebook]The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790, by Ritchie Robertson. London, Allen Lane, 2020, xxi, 984 pp., £40.00 (hb), ISBN: 978-024-1004821 [also published in New York under the Harper imprint]
David Harris Sacks
Pages: 457-469
Published online: 24 Apr 2023
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Conceived in chains: slavery and American philosophy
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery, Peter Wirzbicki. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, 336 pp., $39.95 (hb), ISBN: 9780812252910
Ryan McIlhenny
Pages: 471-483
Published online: 30 May 2023
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Book Review
The rise of modern Chinese thought
by Wang Hui, edited by Michael Gibbs Hill. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2023, 1088 pp., $75.00 (hb), ISBN 9780674046764
B.V.E. Hyde
Pages: 485-487
Published online: 11 Sep 2023
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Against the backdrop of sovereignty and absolutism. The theology of God’s power and its bearing on the western legal tradition, 1100–1600
by Massimiliano Traversino di Cristo. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 34. Leiden, Brill, 2022, xiv + 242 pp., €118.72 (hb), ISBN 978-90-04-50369-4
Jean-Paul De Lucca
Pages: 487-489
Published online: 31 Aug 2023
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The private is political: Anna Becker on the Renaissance household
Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth, by Anna Becker, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 282 pp., £78.99 (hard back), ISBN 978-1-108-48705-4
Sara Miglietti
Pages: 489-494
Published online: 21 Dec 2022
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Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680): A Philosopher in her Historical Context
edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Sarah Hutton. Women in the History of Philosophy and Science, vol. 9. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021, 218 pp., $64.99 (hb), ISBN 978-3-030-71526-7
Rebecca Wilkin
Pages: 494-497
Published online: 12 Dec 2022
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La Vie de Monsieur Descartes
by Adrien Baillet, introduced and annotated by Annie Bitbol-Hespériès, Paris, Les belles lettres, collection ‘Encre Marine’, 2020, 1328 pp., €79 (hb), ISBN 978-2-35088-199-7
Stephen Gaukroger
Pages: 497-498
Published online: 12 Dec 2022
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The Dark Bible: cultures of interpretation in early modern England
by Alison Knight. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 337 pp., £81 (hb), ISBN 978-0-19-289632-2
Colin Donnelly
Pages: 498-500
Published online: 31 Aug 2023
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A philosophy of beauty: Shaftesbury on nature, virtue, and art
by Michael B. Gill, Princeton, Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2022, 238 pp., £35 (hb), ISBN 978-0-691-22661-3
Endre Szécsényi
Pages: 501-504
Published online: 01 Aug 2023
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The religious innatism debate in early modern Britain: intellectual change beyond Locke
by Robin Mills. London - New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ix + 132 pp., £55 (Hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-84322-9
James A. Harris
Pages: 504-506
Published online: 11 Sep 2023
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L’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau: entre exemples et modèles
by Flora Champy. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2022, 632 pp., 32€ (pb), ISBN 978-2-406-12530-3
Rebecca Wilkin
Pages: 506-509
Published online: 31 Aug 2023
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Adam Smith reconsidered: history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics
by Paul Sagar. New Jersey/Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2022, 248 pp., $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780691210834
Eveline Campos Hauck
Pages: 509-511
Published online: 18 May 2023
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Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain
by Ross Carroll, Princeton, NJ, and Oxford, UK, Princeton University Press, 2022, 280 pp., £28.00 (pb), ISBN 978-06-91-24177-7
Rebecca Anne Barr
Pages: 511-514
Published online: 11 Sep 2023
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Colonial capitalism and the dilemmas of liberalism
by Onur Ulas Ince. New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, 232 pp., £67 (hb), ISBN 9780190637293
C.B. Bow
Pages: 514-516
Published online: 07 Jun 2023
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Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci
by Rocco Rubini. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 360 pp., $45.00 (hb, epub), ISBN 978-0-226-80755-3
Timothy Kircher
Pages: 516-518
Published online: 07 Jun 2023
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ad Jacob Taubes, Historischer und politischer Theologe, moderner Gnostiker
by Richard Faber. Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2022, 143 pp., €16 (pb), ISBN 978-3-86393-126-1
Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
Pages: 518-520
Published online: 26 Jul 2023
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Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
by Shruti Kapila, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 313 pp., $35.00 (hb), ISBN 978-0-691-19522-3
Milinda Banerjee
Pages: 520-522
Published online: 12 Dec 2022
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