Ari Helo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1107849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ari Helo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ari |
| FAMILY NAME | Helo |
| SIGNATURE | HELO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6051-3869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yhteiskunta ensin, ihminen sitten
Arvio teoksesta: Pertti Koskela: Ihmissuvun, yhteiskunnan ja ihmisen synty. Ehdotus ihmiskunnan uudeksi historiaksi, osa 1. Uusi historia 2022. 325 s. ISBN 978-952-7352-12-0
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
Journal Article The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy Get access The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy. By Joseph Fishkin and William E Forbath. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 632 pp. $41.00.) Ari Helo Ari Helo University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Thomas Jefferson and Politics
Thomas Jefferson’s fame as an advocate of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy has been frequently questioned. For many scholars, his racist statements, his scant concern for women’s rights, his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and his anti-Federalist politics suffice as proof of the very opposite of his reputation. This article argues that politics can be viewed as the centerpie…
Rights and Slavery in Thomas Jefferson's Political Thought
Thomas Jefferson is famous for his advocacy of equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy throughout the United States. He is equally (in)famous for his racist statements, for his little concern for women's rights, for his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and for his strongly anti-Federalist politics. This article will make clear that his political solution to the problem of slavery was not as far-fetched at the time as ma…
Arthur Scherr. John Adams, Slavery, and Race
Arthur Scherr’s John Adams, Slavery, and Race: Ideas, Politics, and Diplomacy in an Age of Crisis begins as one would hope all scholarly works would begin, clearly setting the scene by showing what has been wrong in its field of study. Scherr’s introduction clarifies how a number of Adams’s biographers, diplomatic historians, and distinguished founding-era experts have been unable to see the second president’s absolute failure to make any genuine…
Making Habeas Work
Reviewed book: Making Habeas Work: A Legal History. By Eric M. Freedman. New York: New York University Press, 2018. viii, 197 pp
Jefferson's Body
Maurizio Valsania has again written a book on Thomas Jefferson. This time he approaches the subject from the viewpoint of corporeality, although much less in terms of the eighteenth-century understanding of the subject, than strictly in terms of Jefferson's person and personal views. Interesting, occasionally amusing details are revealed. Jefferson was “six feet two-and-a-half inches” tall and “straight as a gun barrel,” with swinging gait and co…
Richard Alan Ryerson's John Adams’s Republic
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen's Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography
Letting Go of Narrative History
This paper argues that we can let go of the conception of narrative history, not because we know history to be something else entirely, but because the conception too often leads to needless confusion about the methodological basics of historical research among both history students and professional historians themselves. One may view history simply as knowledge of the past and as an ongoing discussion between historians (and other interested par…
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience
Padraig Riley's book offers a fascinating and thoroughly documented narrative on the Democratic-Republicans' attitudes to slavery during the two decades from Thomas Jefferson's “revolution of 1800” until the Missouri Compromise of 1820. In fact, the book is so focused that it takes dozens of pages for the author to mention that there were also Federalist slaveholders in the United States. Importantly, throughout this period the Jeffersonian Repub…
Breaking Away from Progressive History
This article suggests that, contrary to a widely shared view among American scholars, a progressive view of history is neither essential nor helpful to historical research in American studies—or in any other academic field
Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress
An Inconspicuous American Founding
M ax Edling' s book explores the apparently "self-evident truth" that even the United States government has been national from its very beginnings.To be sure, the Swedish scholar offers us an interesting and carefully argued account of the origins of the strongest government in the world today.Edling suggests that the creation of the American constitutional federation should be situated in the context of the formation of a "fiscal-military state"…
Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery
tH TOW could Thomas Jefferson, advocate of equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, have justified his ownership of human beings? How, in his draft of the Declaration of Independence, could he have accused King George III and the British nation of imposing slavery on the American colonies? Jefferson never thought that slavery was morally justifiable. In order to grasp his understanding of the issue of personal guilt, we need t…
Is there a moral point to republicanism
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
The historicity of morality
Keywords: EthicsHenry HomeLord KamesHistoricityMoralityPhilosophy of historyScottish enlightenment
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
Journal Article The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy Get access The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy. By Joseph Fishkin and William E Forbath. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 632 pp. $41.00.) Ari Helo Ari Helo University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Jefferson's Body
Maurizio Valsania has again written a book on Thomas Jefferson. This time he approaches the subject from the viewpoint of corporeality, although much less in terms of the eighteenth-century understanding of the subject, than strictly in terms of Jefferson's person and personal views. Interesting, occasionally amusing details are revealed. Jefferson was “six feet two-and-a-half inches” tall and “straight as a gun barrel,” with swinging gait and co…
Letting Go of Narrative History
This paper argues that we can let go of the conception of narrative history, not because we know history to be something else entirely, but because the conception too often leads to needless confusion about the methodological basics of historical research among both history students and professional historians themselves. One may view history simply as knowledge of the past and as an ongoing discussion between historians (and other interested par…
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience
Padraig Riley's book offers a fascinating and thoroughly documented narrative on the Democratic-Republicans' attitudes to slavery during the two decades from Thomas Jefferson's “revolution of 1800” until the Missouri Compromise of 1820. In fact, the book is so focused that it takes dozens of pages for the author to mention that there were also Federalist slaveholders in the United States. Importantly, throughout this period the Jeffersonian Repub…
Is there a moral point to republicanism
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
The historicity of morality
Keywords: EthicsHenry HomeLord KamesHistoricityMoralityPhilosophy of historyScottish enlightenment
Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery
tH TOW could Thomas Jefferson, advocate of equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, have justified his ownership of human beings? How, in his draft of the Declaration of Independence, could he have accused King George III and the British nation of imposing slavery on the American colonies? Jefferson never thought that slavery was morally justifiable. In order to grasp his understanding of the issue of personal guilt, we need t…
An Inconspicuous American Founding
M ax Edling' s book explores the apparently "self-evident truth" that even the United States government has been national from its very beginnings.To be sure, the Swedish scholar offers us an interesting and carefully argued account of the origins of the strongest government in the world today.Edling suggests that the creation of the American constitutional federation should be situated in the context of the formation of a "fiscal-military state"…
Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress
Breaking Away from Progressive History
This article suggests that, contrary to a widely shared view among American scholars, a progressive view of history is neither essential nor helpful to historical research in American studies—or in any other academic field
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen's Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography
Letting Go of Narrative History
This paper argues that we can let go of the conception of narrative history, not because we know history to be something else entirely, but because the conception too often leads to needless confusion about the methodological basics of historical research among both history students and professional historians themselves. One may view history simply as knowledge of the past and as an ongoing discussion between historians (and other interested par…
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience
Padraig Riley's book offers a fascinating and thoroughly documented narrative on the Democratic-Republicans' attitudes to slavery during the two decades from Thomas Jefferson's “revolution of 1800” until the Missouri Compromise of 1820. In fact, the book is so focused that it takes dozens of pages for the author to mention that there were also Federalist slaveholders in the United States. Importantly, throughout this period the Jeffersonian Repub…
Richard Alan Ryerson's John Adams’s Republic
Jefferson's Body
Maurizio Valsania has again written a book on Thomas Jefferson. This time he approaches the subject from the viewpoint of corporeality, although much less in terms of the eighteenth-century understanding of the subject, than strictly in terms of Jefferson's person and personal views. Interesting, occasionally amusing details are revealed. Jefferson was “six feet two-and-a-half inches” tall and “straight as a gun barrel,” with swinging gait and co…
Arthur Scherr. John Adams, Slavery, and Race
Arthur Scherr’s John Adams, Slavery, and Race: Ideas, Politics, and Diplomacy in an Age of Crisis begins as one would hope all scholarly works would begin, clearly setting the scene by showing what has been wrong in its field of study. Scherr’s introduction clarifies how a number of Adams’s biographers, diplomatic historians, and distinguished founding-era experts have been unable to see the second president’s absolute failure to make any genuine…
Making Habeas Work
Reviewed book: Making Habeas Work: A Legal History. By Eric M. Freedman. New York: New York University Press, 2018. viii, 197 pp
Rights and Slavery in Thomas Jefferson's Political Thought
Thomas Jefferson is famous for his advocacy of equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy throughout the United States. He is equally (in)famous for his racist statements, for his little concern for women's rights, for his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and for his strongly anti-Federalist politics. This article will make clear that his political solution to the problem of slavery was not as far-fetched at the time as ma…
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
Journal Article The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy Get access The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy. By Joseph Fishkin and William E Forbath. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 632 pp. $41.00.) Ari Helo Ari Helo University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Thomas Jefferson and Politics
Thomas Jefferson’s fame as an advocate of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy has been frequently questioned. For many scholars, his racist statements, his scant concern for women’s rights, his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and his anti-Federalist politics suffice as proof of the very opposite of his reputation. This article argues that politics can be viewed as the centerpie…
Yhteiskunta ensin, ihminen sitten
Arvio teoksesta: Pertti Koskela: Ihmissuvun, yhteiskunnan ja ihmisen synty. Ehdotus ihmiskunnan uudeksi historiaksi, osa 1. Uusi historia 2022. 325 s. ISBN 978-952-7352-12-0
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