Nicholas Mithen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Mithen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mithen |
| SIGNATURE | MITHEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6771-8568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Searching for ‘Moderate Enlightenment’: From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock
The meaning of 'moderate enlightenment' has been monopolised by Jonathan Israel.In this guise, 'moderate enlightenment' is built atop a compromise between authority and innovation, between reason and revelation, and amounts to an intellectually subordinate counterpart to the Radical Enlightenment.This 'negative' definition obstructs serious interpretation of what 'moderate enlightenment' can mean.This essay progresses instead an enquiry into a 'p…
What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe
What does it mean to refer to the enlightenment as 'moderate'? One answer to this question, and the one which abounds in historiography of enlightenment in the past two decades, is that of Jonathan Israel. For Israel, the 'moderate enlightenment' is the half-baked counterpart to the 'Radical Enlightenment'. Where the Radical Enlightenment, in Israel's version of events, was the crucible within which progressive modernity was forged, the 'moderate…
Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment
This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw this out it reconstructs an “encounter” between two citizens of the scholarly Republic of Letters in the years around 1700-Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Jean Le Clerc-and the concept of moderation each maintained. It proposes that the former maintained an ideal of moderation which was “hard” principally about self-regulation, while the latter mainta…
Richard Simon and the tiers parti
Recent scholarship has sought to reinterpret the French biblical scholar Richard Simon, viewing him less as the unwitting participant in an agenda of radical secularisation, and more as the culmination of centuries of humanistic learning. This article repositions this rehabilitated Simon within the contested theological landscape of late seventeenth century French Catholicism. Drawing upon Simon’s exchanges with the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld and …
Mystical theology, ecumenism and church-state relations: Francesco Bellisomi (1663–1741) at the limits of confessionalism in early eighteenth-century Europe
This article reconstructs the biography of a little-known Italian priest, Francesco Bellisomi (1663–1741), in order to trace the intellectual and political dimensions of religious reformism in early eighteenth-century Europe. Its primary objective is to demonstrate the causal relationships between three trends: firstly, pietistic spiritual reform influenced by mystical theology; secondly, ecumenical dialogue among Protestants and between Protesta…
The New Age in the modern West: Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late eighteenth century to the present day
The New Age in the modern West: counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late eighteenth century to the present day." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 24(3), pp. 493–494
Searching for ‘Moderate Enlightenment’: From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock
The meaning of 'moderate enlightenment' has been monopolised by Jonathan Israel.In this guise, 'moderate enlightenment' is built atop a compromise between authority and innovation, between reason and revelation, and amounts to an intellectually subordinate counterpart to the Radical Enlightenment.This 'negative' definition obstructs serious interpretation of what 'moderate enlightenment' can mean.This essay progresses instead an enquiry into a 'p…
Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment
This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw this out it reconstructs an “encounter” between two citizens of the scholarly Republic of Letters in the years around 1700-Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Jean Le Clerc-and the concept of moderation each maintained. It proposes that the former maintained an ideal of moderation which was “hard” principally about self-regulation, while the latter mainta…
The New Age in the modern West: Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late eighteenth century to the present day
The New Age in the modern West: counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late eighteenth century to the present day." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 24(3), pp. 493–494
Mystical theology, ecumenism and church-state relations: Francesco Bellisomi (1663–1741) at the limits of confessionalism in early eighteenth-century Europe
This article reconstructs the biography of a little-known Italian priest, Francesco Bellisomi (1663–1741), in order to trace the intellectual and political dimensions of religious reformism in early eighteenth-century Europe. Its primary objective is to demonstrate the causal relationships between three trends: firstly, pietistic spiritual reform influenced by mystical theology; secondly, ecumenical dialogue among Protestants and between Protesta…
Richard Simon and the tiers parti
Recent scholarship has sought to reinterpret the French biblical scholar Richard Simon, viewing him less as the unwitting participant in an agenda of radical secularisation, and more as the culmination of centuries of humanistic learning. This article repositions this rehabilitated Simon within the contested theological landscape of late seventeenth century French Catholicism. Drawing upon Simon’s exchanges with the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld and …
Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment
This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw this out it reconstructs an “encounter” between two citizens of the scholarly Republic of Letters in the years around 1700-Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Jean Le Clerc-and the concept of moderation each maintained. It proposes that the former maintained an ideal of moderation which was “hard” principally about self-regulation, while the latter mainta…
Searching for ‘Moderate Enlightenment’: From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock
The meaning of 'moderate enlightenment' has been monopolised by Jonathan Israel.In this guise, 'moderate enlightenment' is built atop a compromise between authority and innovation, between reason and revelation, and amounts to an intellectually subordinate counterpart to the Radical Enlightenment.This 'negative' definition obstructs serious interpretation of what 'moderate enlightenment' can mean.This essay progresses instead an enquiry into a 'p…
What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe
What does it mean to refer to the enlightenment as 'moderate'? One answer to this question, and the one which abounds in historiography of enlightenment in the past two decades, is that of Jonathan Israel. For Israel, the 'moderate enlightenment' is the half-baked counterpart to the 'Radical Enlightenment'. Where the Radical Enlightenment, in Israel's version of events, was the crucible within which progressive modernity was forged, the 'moderate…
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