T Brennan

Datos Biográficos

ID14915
NOMBRET Brennan
NOMBREST
APELLIDOBrennan
FIRMABRENNAN T
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Minnesota
ORCID0000-0003-1684-4825
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS66
TOTAL DE CITAS125
TOTAL COMO AUTOR66
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1941
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H5

  • The Limits of Enlightened Self-Interest

    T BrennanARTICLEAmerican Political Thought2025Referencias: 10

  • Does Liberalism Need Free Will? Augustinianism, Pelagianism, and the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Open AccessT BrennanARTICLEModern Intellectual History2025

    The historiography of liberalism has taken a theological turn. Many scholars now trace the origins of liberal thought to Christian orthodoxy, with its emphasis on the radical equality of humanity under the absolute sovereignty of God. Others trace it to the heresy of Pelagianism, with its emphasis on the radical freedom of humans to choose between good and evil under the rationalistic judgment of God. Focusing on a classic expression of early-mod…

  • Teaching by Examples

    Open AccessT BrennanARTICLEPolitical Theory2024Referencias: 19

    Rousseau’s account of the “legislator” or “lawgiver” is commonly regarded as one of the most far-fetched, ominous, and baffling parts of his teaching in the Social Contract. In brief, Rousseau’s lawgiver seems to be a proto-totalitarian figure whose self-appointed mission is to found a political community by “denaturing” people at a single stroke and who may be a mere figment of Rousseau’s overheated imagination. Accordingly, this part of the Soc…

  • Rousseau, Franklin and Bourgeois Liberalism

    T BrennanARTICLEHistory of Political Thought2024Citada por: 1

    This article suggests that the anti-bourgeois, illiberal character of Rousseau’s political philosophy has been exaggerated. In order to illustrate this point, I juxtapose Rousseau’s thought with that of Benjamin Franklin, the acknowledged embodiment of bourgeois liberalism in the eighteenth century. Although Franklin and Rousseau are often cast as opposites today, in their own time they were commonly linked – with, I think, considerable justifica…

  • Future Interrupted

    T Brennan, Timothy J BrennanARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2023

    Despite today’s routine denunciations of Eurocentrism and the rise of critical schools that consider imperialism to be the exclusive outgrowth of “European epistemologies,” Europe has always been a much more internally mixed entity than is usually supposed as a result of foreign occupations, unassimilated indigenous peoples, contested borders, and a massive cultural and intellectual influx from its present and former colonies. Especially interwar…

  • Teaching by Contradictions

    Open AccessT BrennanARTICLEThe Review of Politics2022Referencias: 2

    Building on studies by Thomas L. Pangle and Robert C. Bartlett, this article contends that Montesquieu's rhetorical moderation with respect to religion in The Spirit of the Laws serves a substantively radical project, that is, the gradual diminution of religious devotion through the spread of liberal-commercial civilization. Taking up the major passages of praise for religion in general and for Christianity in particular, I examine the strategy t…

  • Montesquieu’s Dur-Commerce thesis

    T BrennanARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 28

    This essay seeks to clarify a facet of Montesquieu’s doux-commerce thesis. On the one hand, I agree with the scholarly consensus that Montesquieu was a doux-commerce thinker. Indeed, I argue that from the Persian Letters to The Spirit of the Laws he consistently presented self-interest as a psychological spring of action superior in point of humanity to virtue (the spring of ancient republics like Rome and Sparta). On the other hand, I contend th…

  • The Strength and Vigor of the Soul

    T BrennanARTICLEThe European Legacy2021Referencias: 17

    Rousseau insisted that his First Discourse, the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was chronically misread. This essay suggests that readers have tended to interpret the Discourse too narrowly. While Rousseau did link popular enlightenment with the corruption of virtue, he defined virtue as the combination of two qualities that are both separable from moral integrity and good citizenship: strength and vigor of soul. Clarifying the definition of …

  • Remembering Benita Parry

    T BrennanARTICLEInterventions2020

    One of only a handful of postcolonial studies’ true pioneers, Benita Parry died at the age of 88 on January 19, 2020 in Gwynedd Hospital in northern Wales. Cantankerous, elegant, and immensely gene

  • Vico and Modern Scientism

    T BrennanARTICLEItalian Culture2017Referencias: 2

    The aspect of Giambattista Vico’s work most relevant to contemporary debates is the one least addressed in the often brilliant scholarship on his work. We hear of the verum/factum distinction, his work on Roman law, his theories of rhetoric, and his cyclical view of history, but his critique of scientism (as distinct from the natural sciences, to which he was drawn) receives little attention. This critique of scientism — the sterile rationalism o…

  • On the Image of the Country and the City

    Open AccessT BrennanARTICLEAntipode2017Citada por: 3Referencias: 2

    We know from the Grundrisse that Marx felt the division of town and country to be as vital to political economy as the division of classes. From the Manifesto we know that he saw this division as a homological version of the dependency created by capitalism of global South on global North. It was, however, the cultural theorists of twentieth‐century Marxism who internalized this geopolitical imagination and significantly developed it in the form …

  • Thomas Jefferson and the Living Constitution

    T BrennanARTICLEThe Journal of Politics2017Citada por: 2Referencias: 17

    The persistence of the debate between living constitutionalists and originalists in the United States is often attributed to motives of political expediency on one or both sides. Without denying the influence of such motives, this article maintains that the debate persists also because of an inevitable fraying of the connection between the written Constitution and the popular consent that is meant to underpin it. In order to clarify the problem, …

  • Subaltern Stakes

    T BrennanARTICLENew left review2014

    If the post-colonial theory that emerged as a militant intellectual project in the 80s has faltered over the past decade, against a backdrop of actual imperialist excursions, Vivek Chibber’s critical intervention in the field has ignited fresh debate around it. Timothy Brennan asks whether an effective challenge can be mounted without tackling the theory’s amnesia more directly

  • The case against irony

    Open AccessT BrennanARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth…2014Citada por: 5Referencias: 10

    Taken to be the essential feature of all literature, irony is actually quite problematic. Inseparable from the invention of the West by way of the Oriental society of Greece (above all, in Plato), irony enters the modern literary scene at the confluence of forms of labour, vestigial notions of medieval craft, an ethics of dissimulation, and an attack on dialectical thought. Indeed, there is a largely neglected tradition of hostility towards irony…

  • The Free Impersonality of Bourgeois Spirit

    T BrennanARTICLEBiography2014

    To challenge the bourgeoisie today, even to say its name, seems impossible given that its identity seems to many indistinct today. The capitalist is not really seen nor theorized; its figure is said to blend into the social carpet. But the bourgeoisie is as tangible as ever, only more "spiritual." It has managed to conceal itself by making individuals im persons. One version of this move exists, paradoxically, among those who hate capitalism: pos…

  • Hegel, Empire, and Anti-Colonial Thought

    T BrennanBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of…2013

    There is no such thing as ‘postcolonialism’—that unitary philosophical and political outlook which some have posited—for the field has always been deeply divided politically. The invention of ‘postcolonialism’ pivots on negating Hegel, a figure more invoked than real. Philosophy is politics, and so settling accounts with Hegel is more vital than any other question before us. In fact, Hegel invented the ‘other’, defended the sovereignty of the poo…

  • (Dis)owning responsibility

    T BrennanARTICLEPostcolonial Studies2013

  • Joining the party

    T Brennan, Timothy J BrennanARTICLEPostcolonial Studies2013Citada por: 3

  • Re-imagining postcolonial studies

    Open AccessT Brennan, Timothy J BrennanARTICLERace & Class2012

    Neil Lazarus’s The Postcolonial Unconscious proposes a new literary comparatism based on a sociology of representational types rather than on modernist literary form. In this highly successful counter-text, he blasts postcolonial theory for its unacknowledged reliance on tropes and terms very alien or indifferent to the actual corpus of non-western literature. Heralding a still vibrant peripheral modernism, Lazarus pores over an extraordinarily w…

  • Running and Dodging

    T BrennanARTICLENew Literary History2010Citada por: 2

  • Labor and the Logic of Abstraction

    Moishe Postone, T BrennanARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2009Citada por: 2

    In this interview, Moishe Postone, author of Time, Labor, and Social Domination, discusses the Marxian critical theory of capitalism against the background of the author's intellectual biography and central historical developments of recent decades. The interview focuses on his reinterpretation of Karl Marx's critical theory, especially on the notion of the historical specificity of the categories that purportedly grasp capitalism and its histori…

  • Intellectual Labor

    T BrennanARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2009Citada por: 1

    Only yesterday a discussion of economics in cultural circles was considered boring-a mere "economism"-but it is now everywhere in the arts. "Labor," while being summoned as a grand economic category, enters conversations in the humanities today in the form of a theory of the latest stage of capitalism in which precisely "intellect" is considered the key productive force. This view, which finds expression in a number of antiestablishment thinkers,…

  • Preliminary Results of the Istron, Mirabello, Geophysical and Geoarchaeological Project, 2002–2004

    Open AccessTh Kalpaxis, K Athanassas et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2006Citada por: 2Referencias: 17

    One of the goals of the Vrokastro Survey Project, based in west-central Mirabello, eastern Crete, was to identify a site within the boundaries of the survey study area worthy of further investigation, including excavation. The settlement selected, based on its complexity and long lifespan, was Priniatikos Pyrgos, a harbour community and ‘gateway’ of the Vrokastro region. As a preliminary to excavation, the Istron Geoarchaeological Project was ini…

  • Crude Wars

    T Brennan, Timothy J Brennan et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2006

    Research Article| January 01 2006 Crude Wars Timothy Brennan; Timothy Brennan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Keya Ganguly Keya Ganguly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (1): 19–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-1-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Brennan, Keya Ganguly; Crude Wars. South Atlantic Quarter…

  • Edward said

    T BrennanARTICLEAtlantic Studies2005Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Edward Said's career was consciously launched as early as the late 1960s under the influence of Georg Luka ́cs, Lucien Goldmann, and Raymond Williams—not the figures typically associated with his thinking during the rise of postcolonial studies. These influences accompanied his introduction to the history of the anti-colonial liberation movements, to which he was introduced by college friends like Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (to whom he later dedicated Or…