Ann Thomson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3671083 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ann Thomson |
| NOMBRES | Ann |
| APELLIDO | Thomson |
| FIRMA | THOMSON A |
| AFILIACIONES | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7348-1085 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 307 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
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Locke, Stillingfleet et Coste. La philosophie en extraits
International audience
L’Europe des Lumières et le monde musulman. Une alterité ambiguë
The English Universal History ’s treatment of the Arab world
The Universal History, which had a complicated publishing history from the 1730s to the 1780s, was a commercial undertaking by a group of London booksellers, aimed at satisfying curiosity for reliable information about the rest of the world. It was finally composed of two separate parts, the Ancient and the Modern, which, while eventually published as a single work, were distinct. Its first author was George Sale, the noted translator of the Qur’…
L’autore assente
Review of Ludovica Braida, L’autore assente. L’anonimato nell’editoria italiana del Settecento (Roma, Laterza, 2019) reviewed by Ann Thomson
Émilie Du Châtelet and La Mettrie
Filippo Pananti’s Algeria
The Tuscan poet, playwright and democratic activist Filippo Pananti (1766–1837) was captured by Algerian corsairs in the Mediterranean on his way back to Italy from England in 1813 and was briefly held captive before being released thanks to the intervention of a British diplomat. He published a highly coloured and melodramatic account of his sufferings, together with a description of the country, in 1817; the work, called Avventure ed osservazio…
The Turks and the Plague in the 18th Century
Eighteenth-century European views of the Ottomans reveal a complex set of politico-religious interests, as the Ottoman Empire declined militarily and gradually became less an object of fear. It was associated with certain clichéd images, in particular of despotism and fanaticism. Among these associations was the prevalence of the plague, which was endemic in many parts of the Ottoman empire, while after 1720 it no longer ravaged Europe. While thi…
Jürgen Osterhammel. Unfabling the East
Jürgen Osterhammel’s Die Entzauberung Asiens, published in 1998, with a second edition in 2013, has acquired the status of something of a classic in the German-speaking world. Its translation into English after twenty years is therefore long overdue and very welcome. This translation, Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia, by Robert Savage, is a revised and updated version of the original, which has thus allowed Osterhammel …
Global Intellectual History
Ann Thomson is Professor of Intellectual History at the European University Institute. She works on the intellectual history of the long Eighteenth Century, in particular on the ‘natural history of man’ and the circulation of ideas and cultural exchange. Recent works include The Enlightenment in Scotland: National and International Perspectives, edited with Jean-François Dunyach (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2015), L’âme des Lumières (Seyssel: Ch…
Colonialism, race and slavery in Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, generally known as the Histoire des deux Indes, one of the best-sellers of the Eighteenth Century, has frequently been characterized as an anticolonial work. This article shows instead its complexity and internal inconsistencies, explained in part by the context and manner of its composition and Raynal’s links to…
William J. Bulman. Anglican Enlightenment
This book, despite its general title, is a study centered on the writings of Lancelot Addison (1632–1703), father of the more famous Joseph Addison (discussed briefly in the conclusion). Lancelot Addison’s papers provide a useful vantage point from which to look at discussions within the Anglican Church in the second half of the seventeenth century. Addison was a Tory churchman from relatively poor origins as the son of a parson. He managed, than…
Weight loss referrals for adults in primary care (WRAP)
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN82857232. Date registered: 15/10/2012
Diderot, l’Encyclopédie et les Lumières radicales
On revient ici sur l'histoire des « Lumières radicales » de Jonathan Israel, histoire qui a déjà fait couler beaucoup d'encre, et notamment sur son dernier volume : Democratic Enlightenment, et son traitement de Diderot et de l'Encyclopédie. On montre que le parti-pris de l'auteur — qui interprète tout à travers une opposition entre un système philosophique radical qui serait celle de l'Encyclopédie, ainsi que de Diderot, d'Holbach, Raynal etc, e…
Presentation
The following three articles originated in papers given at a workshop on approaches to Intellectual History at the European University Institute in March 2013. They are symptomatic of new ways of thinking about intellectual history in Britain, which is, I believe, going through somewhat of a revival, accompanied by the breaking down of some of the barriers between it and other types of historical inquiry. While the so-called ‘Cambridge School’ re…
Gilles Montègre. La Rome des Français au temps des Lumières
Journal Article Gilles Montègre. La Rome des Français au temps des Lumières: Capitale de l'antique et carrefour de l'Europe, 1769–1791. Get access Gilles Montègre. La Rome des Français au temps des Lumières: Capitale de l'antique et carrefour de l'Europe, 1769–1791. (Collection de l'école française de Rome, number 435.) Rome: école française de Rome. 2011. Pp. x, 624. €45.00. Ann Thomson Ann Thomson Université Paris 8 Search for other works by th…
French Eighteenth-Century Materialists and Natural Law
This article looks at the discussions of natural law by the eighteenth-century French materialists Julien Offray de La Mettre, Denis Diderot, Paul Thiry d'Holbach and Claude-Adrien Helvétius. It is particularly concerned with their discussion of moral values and their attempt to find a materialistic basis for them as part of their rejection of religion. The discussion brings out the différences between them and analyses their dialogues on this qu…
L'histoire intellectuelle
Cet article discute dans un premier temps l'histoire intellectuelle telle qu'elle se pratique notamment dans le monde anglophone, tout en soulignant les résistances que rencontre en France cette branche des études historiques. On y examine les travaux ce qu'on appelle « l'école de Cambridge » (notamment Q. Skinner, J.G.A. Pocock, D. Forbes), mais également ceux d'une gamme plus large d'historiens, y compris ceux associés à l'Université de Sussex …
Anti-Seneca or the Sovereign Good
Happy was the man who was able to know the causes of things! Note on the text Of all La Mettrie's works, this is the one that he seems to have rewritten the most. It first took the form of an introduction to his translation of Seneca, on which La Mettrie began to work during 1748, published under the title of Traité de la vie heureuse, par Senèque. Avec un Discours du traducteur sur le même sujet ( Treatise on the Happy Life, by Seneca, with a Di…
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Community Study of Maternal Mortality in South West Nigeria
Reluctant Partners?
This article puts three types of emerging nonprofit relationships in context as emblematic of America's historical tensions between individualism and community: collaborations with government agencies, social entrepreneurialism, and leveraged or paid volunteerism. It specifically addresses Edmund Burke's ‘little platoons’. It then reviews the validity of the claims of proponents and the concerns raised by critics about a troubling rebalance which…
Les « animaux plus que machines »
International audience
Animals, Humans, Machines and Thinking Matter, 1690-1707
This article looks at the debate on the soul in England at the turn of the eighteenth century and at the role played within it by the question of animal soul, which had both theological and scientific ramifications. It discusses the difficulty of accounting for animal behaviour without either adopting the animal-machine hypothesis or according animals an immaterial and hence immortal soul. While those who denied the existence of an immaterial hum…
Machine man and other writings
Foreword Introduction Chronology Further reading 1. Machine Man 2. Treatise on the soul 3. Man as Plant 4. The System of Epicurus 5. Anti-Seneca or the Sovereign Good 6. Preliminary Discourse Index.
Collaboration Processes
Social science research contains a wealth of knowledge for people seeking to understand collaboration processes. The authors argue that public managers should look inside the “black box” of collaboration processes. Inside, they will find a complex construct of five variable dimensions: governance, administration, organizational autonomy, mutuality, and norms. Public managers must know these five dimensions and manage them intentionally in order t…
Service Learning and Community Engagement
One of the presumptions of a well-functioning, viable democracy is that citizens participate in the life of their communities and nation. The role of higher education in forming actively engaged citizens has long been the focus of scholarly research, but recently an active debate has emerged concerning the role of service as a third core function of institutions of higher learning. Service learning (SL), a teaching approach that extends student l…
Colonialism, race and slavery in Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes
Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, generally known as the Histoire des deux Indes, one of the best-sellers of the Eighteenth Century, has frequently been characterized as an anticolonial work. This article shows instead its complexity and internal inconsistencies, explained in part by the context and manner of its composition and Raynal’s links to…
Barbary and Enlightenment
Diderot, Roubaud et l’esclavage
La célèbre dénonciation de l’esclavage insérée par Diderot dans le livre XI de l’édition de 1780 de L’Histoire des Deux-Indes n’a attiré l’attention que de peu de critiques modernes. On démontre ici que l’inspiration de ce passage venait sans doute en partie de la dénonciation de l’esclavage faite par l’abbé Pierre-Joseph-André Roubaud, journaliste physiocrate, dans le tome XII de l’Histoire générale de l’Asie, de l’Afrique et de l’Amérique publi…
The English Universal History ’s treatment of the Arab world
The Universal History, which had a complicated publishing history from the 1730s to the 1780s, was a commercial undertaking by a group of London booksellers, aimed at satisfying curiosity for reliable information about the rest of the world. It was finally composed of two separate parts, the Ancient and the Modern, which, while eventually published as a single work, were distinct. Its first author was George Sale, the noted translator of the Qur’…
French Eighteenth-Century Materialists and Natural Law
This article looks at the discussions of natural law by the eighteenth-century French materialists Julien Offray de La Mettre, Denis Diderot, Paul Thiry d'Holbach and Claude-Adrien Helvétius. It is particularly concerned with their discussion of moral values and their attempt to find a materialistic basis for them as part of their rejection of religion. The discussion brings out the différences between them and analyses their dialogues on this qu…
Animals, Humans, Machines and Thinking Matter, 1690-1707
This article looks at the debate on the soul in England at the turn of the eighteenth century and at the role played within it by the question of animal soul, which had both theological and scientific ramifications. It discusses the difficulty of accounting for animal behaviour without either adopting the animal-machine hypothesis or according animals an immaterial and hence immortal soul. While those who denied the existence of an immaterial hum…
Diderot, le matérialisme et la division de l'espèce humaine
Cet article tente de situer la pensée de Diderot par rapport à des réflexions contemporaines sur les variétés dans l'espèce humaine, et de voir les difficultés que cette question soulève pour lui. Car certains des auteurs de systèmes de classification des races selon des critères physiques, fondateurs de l'anthropologie physique du XIXe siècle se situent dans la lignée de conceptions matérialistes de l'être humain. Nos rappelons d'abord certains …
Guillaume Lamy et l'âme matérielle
Guillaume Lamy and the material soul. Guillaume Lamy, author of several medico-philosophical works, defended an epicurean and anti-finalistic philosophy, which led him to reject new medical ideas. His definition of the fiery material soul in his 6th Discours anatomique was reproduced in several 18th-century works, but his works do not seem to have played a vital role in the development of materialistic thought. Only La Mettrie, who preferred a di…
Aspects inconnus du séjour de Voltaire en Prusse
Materialism and Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Barbary and Enlightenment
L'Encyclopédie Diderot, l'esthétique
Jacques Domenech, L'éthique des Lumières. Les fondements de la morale dans la philosophie française du XVIIIè siècle
Thomson Ann. Jacques Domenech, L'éthique des Lumières. Les fondements de la morale dans la philosophie française du XVIIIè siècle. In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, n°10, 1991. pp. 166-167
Barbary and Englightenment, European Attitudes Towards the Maghreb in the 18th Century
Guillaume Lamy et l'âme matérielle
Guillaume Lamy and the material soul. Guillaume Lamy, author of several medico-philosophical works, defended an epicurean and anti-finalistic philosophy, which led him to reject new medical ideas. His definition of the fiery material soul in his 6th Discours anatomique was reproduced in several 18th-century works, but his works do not seem to have played a vital role in the development of materialistic thought. Only La Mettrie, who preferred a di…
La classification raciale de l'Afrique du Nord au début du XIXe siècle
K. Haoui — Linguistic and Racial Classifications in 19th-Century Northern Africa. From its foundation, the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris was interested in lan-guages and especially in the relations between language and race. Research on the ancient and modem languages of Northern Africa was conducted from the early 1800s, but the classification of thèse languages repeatedly changed through- out the century. Although it had been admitted that t…
Les Égyptiens d'Edward William Lane
Publi pour la premire fois en 1837, l'ouvrage d'Edward William Lane, Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians 1 , est une sorte de monument. Ds sa parution, il a t considr comme une description dfinitive de la vie des gyptiens, voire de tous les musulmans, et par la suite, des crivains comme Nerval s'en sont largement inspirs. Si l'on peut estimer excessive l'opinion de son neveu Stanley Lane Poole, selon lequel cet ouvrage cons…
Machine Man and Other Writings
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succès de scandale in his own time. It was however a serious, if polemical, attempt to provide an explanation of the workings of the human body and mind in purely material terms and to show that thought was the product of the workings of the brain alone. …
Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789
Diderot, le matérialisme et la division de l'espèce humaine
Cet article tente de situer la pensée de Diderot par rapport à des réflexions contemporaines sur les variétés dans l'espèce humaine, et de voir les difficultés que cette question soulève pour lui. Car certains des auteurs de systèmes de classification des races selon des critères physiques, fondateurs de l'anthropologie physique du XIXe siècle se situent dans la lignée de conceptions matérialistes de l'être humain. Nos rappelons d'abord certains …
Grégoire et l'unité de l'espèce humaine
L'unité de l'espèce humaine, principe fortement souligné dans l'œuvre de Grégoire, et qui sous-tend son combat contre l'esclavage, est une croyance a priori, fondée sur la religion. Mais il fait appel à de nombreuses autorités scientifiques pour appuyer son point de vue. Cet article s'attache d'abord à situer ses arguments dans le contexte des débats politiques et scientifiques de l'époque et ensuite à examiner les auteurs auxquels il fait appel,…
Denis Diderot, Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works / The System of Nature. Volume One
La Mettrie, Machines, and the Denial of Liberty
Issues at stake in eighteenth-century racial classification
Hisashi Ida, Genèse d’une morale matérialiste. Les passions et le contrôle de soi chez Diderot
Matérialisme et épicurisme en Angleterre au début du siècle
This article deals with a high profile but now forgotten English debate on the nature of the soul at the turn of the 17th-18th Centuries, which continued an earlier mortalist controversy. It centred on the works of the Rev. Henry Layton and Dr William Coward, as well as John Toland's Letters to Serena. They attempted to explain intellectual activity in terms of matter and denied the existence of an immaterial and immortal soul before the general …
Diderot, Roubaud et l’esclavage
La célèbre dénonciation de l’esclavage insérée par Diderot dans le livre XI de l’édition de 1780 de L’Histoire des Deux-Indes n’a attiré l’attention que de peu de critiques modernes. On démontre ici que l’inspiration de ce passage venait sans doute en partie de la dénonciation de l’esclavage faite par l’abbé Pierre-Joseph-André Roubaud, journaliste physiocrate, dans le tome XII de l’Histoire générale de l’Asie, de l’Afrique et de l’Amérique publi…
The rhetoric of informed choice
Objective To investigate midwives’ attitudes, values and beliefs on the use of intrapartum fetal monitoring. Design Qualitative, semi‐structured interviews Subjects and setting Fifty‐eight registered midwives in two hospitals in the North of England. Results In this paper two main themes are discussed, these are: informed choice, and the power of the midwife. Midwives favoured the application of informed choice and shared a unanimous consensus on…
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
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Collaboration Processes
Social science research contains a wealth of knowledge for people seeking to understand collaboration processes. The authors argue that public managers should look inside the “black box” of collaboration processes. Inside, they will find a complex construct of five variable dimensions: governance, administration, organizational autonomy, mutuality, and norms. Public managers must know these five dimensions and manage them intentionally in order t…
Breastfeeding practice in the UK
Despite breastfeeding prevalence increasing, many mothers in developed countries are dissatisfied with care provided by midwives. However, a paucity of research exists related to midwives' experiences of supporting breastfeeding mothers. This study explored the experiences of English midwives' during their breastfeeding support role. A qualitative study using grounded theory principles was used. Data were collected using in-depth interviews and a…
Rêver d’Orient, connaître l’Orient
Le terme « orientalisme », tel qu’il est entendu dans le monde anglophone, a connu un retournement de sens assez paradoxal, puisqu’après avoir désigné la science de tous ceux qui tentaient de connaître l’Orient à travers ses langues et ses textes anciens (linguistes, traducteurs, géographes ou historiens), il en est peu à peu venu à désigner la perception générale de l’Orient par l’Occident, perception fatalement teintée par les fantasmes projeté…
Epilogue
The final chapter gives an overview of the varieties of 18th‐century materialism, in particular Diderot's mature speculations in the Rêve de D'Alembert, the works of d'Holbach and Helvétius, and Joseph Priestley's continuation of Christian mortalism. The main questions raised by this materialism are examined, namely the medical tradition (with particular reference to Cabanis) and religion; morality, politics and society; and human diversity and i…
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