Adam Sutcliffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 311397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Sutcliffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutcliffe |
| SIGNATURE | SUTCLIFFE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8342-0140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Giambattista Vico and the history of historical empathy
Who counts? Anti-antisemitism and the racial politics of emotion
This article focuses on the rise of anti-antisemitic discourse in Britain over the past fifteen years. It explores the relationship between the increasingly emotional tone of public discourse in Britain and other western countries and the miring of anti-antisemitism in dynamics of competitive victimhood and ethnic antagonism. The development of this dynamic is traced from the bitter arguments over the representation and reporting of the Palestine…
Özyürek E. Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory & Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, earnest grappling with how to learn from the horrors of twentieth-century history has grown into a vigorous German export industry.Esra Özyürek's excellent book, which explores the positioning of Germans from Muslim cultural backgrounds in the nation's discourses and practices of Holocaust memory, casts a salutary critical light on some of the underlying assumptions of this regime of civic pedagogy.Rooted both i…
Jewish Politics in Spinoza’s Amsterdam, by Anne O. Albert
Whose Feelings Matter? Holocaust Memory, Empathy, and Redemptive Anti-Antisemitism
This article explores the history and impact, from the end of the Cold War to the present, of the intertwined relationships between increased Holocaust consciousness, the rise of moral pedagogies and political rhetorics of anti-antisemitism, and the emotionalization of Western politics and public discourse. The surge of interest in Holocaust memory in the 1990s was closely connected with the new prominence of feelings in that decade, and particul…
Hume, History, and the Uses of Sympathy
This article focuses on the role of sympathy and antipathy in David Hume's History of England (1754-1762) in relation to the broader place of sympathy in Hume's moral philosophy. Hume, in his earlier philosophical work, argues that sympathy is a naturally occurring responsiveness to others' feelings, similar to the resonance between musical strings. In his History, however, he carefully curates his readers' emotional responses, inviting sympathy …
Comment on Kaiser, Christ and Canaan: The religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918 , by Paul Michael Kurtz, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2018
Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History, ed. Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam
The Stranger as Self and Other: Georg Simmel, Hermann Cohen, and the Significance of Jewish Difference
The Stranger as Self and Other:Georg Simmel, Hermann Cohen, and the Significance of Jewish Difference Adam Sutcliffe In his landmark 1908 essay "The Stranger," Georg Simmel links the Jews to his signature sociological type almost only in passing. In identifying the Jews as the "classic example" of an intruding outsider group that specializes in trade because all the productive economic niches in their host society are "already occupied," he makes…
What Are Jews For?: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose
What Are Jews For?: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose
What is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God's “chosen people,” but the significance of this special status has been understood in many different ways over the centuries. This book traces the history of the idea of Jewish purpose from its ancient and medieval foundations to the modern era, showing how it has been central to Western thinking on the meanings of peoplehood for everybody. The book delves into the li…
The never‐ending saga over antisemitism and the Labour Party
Radical French thought and the return of the “Jewish Question”
Radical French thought and the return of the “Jewish Question”." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 18(2), pp. 246–247
History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present
The Cambridge History of Judaism
This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, cove…
Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, the Early Modern World, 1500-1815
Enlightenment/Haskalah: What's in a Name?: Recent Work on Judaism and the Enlightenment
Enlightenment/Haskalah: What's in a Name?Recent Work on Judaism and the Enlightenment Adam Sutcliffe Lauren B. Strauss AND Michael Brenner, EDS. Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World—Essays in Honor of Michael A. Meyer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 380. David Sorkin . The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews and Catholics from London to Vienna. Princeton, N.J.: Prin…
Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London
The Origins of Jewish Secularization in 18th Century Europe
The Origins of Jewish Secularization in 18 th Century Europe SHMUEL FEINER AND CHAYA NAOR University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 xvi + 330 pp., £42.50, ISBN 9780812242737 Shmuel Feiner is the leadi
Spinoza, Bayle, and the Enlightenment Politics of Philosophical Certainty
This article explores the complex and contested intellectual relationship between two of the key thinkers of the Early Enlightenment: Spinoza and Bayle. The key issue of contention between them is not, it is argued, the question of the existence and nature of God, but their profoundly contrasting visions of the nature of philosophy as a politically emancipatory practice. The article analyzes Bayle's rejection of Spinoza's systemic certainty, and …
The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500
This mixed bag is the latest round in the ‘urban history meets cultural studies’ saga. Derived from a conference session at Venice in 2002, it looks like the product of a vague ‘call for papers’ powered up under four years of patchy editorial direction, and delayed (we are told) by deaths and the arrival of babies. It is published in the Rodger/Pinol Historical Urban Studies series. Many historians will need to take a deep breath before sampling …
Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought by David N. Myers (review)
264 Max Weber Studies single reference to the relevant literature. A full delineation of Schluchter's points of view therefore awaits the publication of his larger study. The book's second part is shorter and has a different flavour to it. Here the reader finds ample references to present scholarly discussions, and each essay includes frank observations concerning current socio-political conditions and developments. Two essays deal with German po…
The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000
Green space was on the agenda when the history of urban and regional planning became an organised field in the 1970s, but little has been done except in America. A promising monograph was commissioned in 1993 but nothing has come of it. This collective volume is therefore to be welcomed. It is the product of two teams, one composed of Nordic and Russian historians centred on Helsinki and the other of English historians connected with London. Plan…
Sephardic Amsterdam and the Myths of Jewish Modernity
Sephardic Amsterdam and the Myths of Jewish Modernity Adam Sutcliffe (bio) Steven Nadler . Rembrandt's Jews. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii +250. David Liss . The Coffee Trader. New York: Random House, 2003. Pp. 389. Willi Goetschel . Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine. Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. x + 351. Rebecca Gold…
Judaism and the Politics of Enlightenment
This article explores the political and philosophical significance of Judaism in the thought of the European Enlightenment and the resonance of these debates in Western thought since the 18th century. Judaism and the Jews persistently served as a troublesome limit case, a destabilizing challenge, and a probing test for enlightenment rationalism. Attempts to divide the Enlightenment into "anti-Semitic" and "philosemitic" strands are doomed to fail…
The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500
This mixed bag is the latest round in the ‘urban history meets cultural studies’ saga. Derived from a conference session at Venice in 2002, it looks like the product of a vague ‘call for papers’ powered up under four years of patchy editorial direction, and delayed (we are told) by deaths and the arrival of babies. It is published in the Rodger/Pinol Historical Urban Studies series. Many historians will need to take a deep breath before sampling …
The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000
Green space was on the agenda when the history of urban and regional planning became an organised field in the 1970s, but little has been done except in America. A promising monograph was commissioned in 1993 but nothing has come of it. This collective volume is therefore to be welcomed. It is the product of two teams, one composed of Nordic and Russian historians centred on Helsinki and the other of English historians connected with London. Plan…
Whose Feelings Matter? Holocaust Memory, Empathy, and Redemptive Anti-Antisemitism
This article explores the history and impact, from the end of the Cold War to the present, of the intertwined relationships between increased Holocaust consciousness, the rise of moral pedagogies and political rhetorics of anti-antisemitism, and the emotionalization of Western politics and public discourse. The surge of interest in Holocaust memory in the 1990s was closely connected with the new prominence of feelings in that decade, and particul…
Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: The Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1914
Can a Jew Be a Philosophe? Isaac de Pinto, Voltaire, and Jewish Participation in the European Enlightenment
There was very little serious intellectual interaction between Jews and Christians in Western Europe during the eighteenth century. The debate--or self-styled "friendly conversation"--between the leading Dutch Remonstrant Phillip van Limborch and the Sephardic physician and polemicist Orobio de Castro, which took place in Amsterdam in the early 1680s, was the last prominent respectful theological encounter between a Christian and a Jew until the …
Who counts? Anti-antisemitism and the racial politics of emotion
This article focuses on the rise of anti-antisemitic discourse in Britain over the past fifteen years. It explores the relationship between the increasingly emotional tone of public discourse in Britain and other western countries and the miring of anti-antisemitism in dynamics of competitive victimhood and ethnic antagonism. The development of this dynamic is traced from the bitter arguments over the representation and reporting of the Palestine…
Identity, Space and Intercultural Contact in the Urban Entrepôt: The Sephardic Bounding of Community in Early Modern Amsterdam and London
(2004). Identity, Space and Intercultural Contact in the Urban Entrepôt: The Sephardic Bounding of Community in Early Modern Amsterdam and London. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 7, No. 1-2, pp. 93-108
Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
Symptoms at Play: Soccer, Austria, and the Jewish Question
Hume, History, and the Uses of Sympathy
This article focuses on the role of sympathy and antipathy in David Hume's History of England (1754-1762) in relation to the broader place of sympathy in Hume's moral philosophy. Hume, in his earlier philosophical work, argues that sympathy is a naturally occurring responsiveness to others' feelings, similar to the resonance between musical strings. In his History, however, he carefully curates his readers' emotional responses, inviting sympathy …
Spinoza, Bayle, and the Enlightenment Politics of Philosophical Certainty
This article explores the complex and contested intellectual relationship between two of the key thinkers of the Early Enlightenment: Spinoza and Bayle. The key issue of contention between them is not, it is argued, the question of the existence and nature of God, but their profoundly contrasting visions of the nature of philosophy as a politically emancipatory practice. The article analyzes Bayle's rejection of Spinoza's systemic certainty, and …
Sephardic Amsterdam and the Myths of Jewish Modernity
Sephardic Amsterdam and the Myths of Jewish Modernity Adam Sutcliffe (bio) Steven Nadler . Rembrandt's Jews. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii +250. David Liss . The Coffee Trader. New York: Random House, 2003. Pp. 389. Willi Goetschel . Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine. Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. x + 351. Rebecca Gold…
Multi-Storey Living, The British Working-Class Experience
Enlightenment and Exclusion: Judaism and Toleration in Spinoza, Locke and Bayle
This paper explores the tensions and ambiguities of the key, foundational arguments for religious and intellectual toleration, articulated at the dawn of the Enlightenment in the late seventeenth century. I focus on the status of Judaism in the thought of the three most influential early theorists of toleration—Baruch Spinoza, John Locke and Pierre Bayle. In distinct but closely related ways, all three thinkers characterise Judaism as the epitome…
Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation. Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
Can a Jew Be a Philosophe? Isaac de Pinto, Voltaire, and Jewish Participation in the European Enlightenment
There was very little serious intellectual interaction between Jews and Christians in Western Europe during the eighteenth century. The debate--or self-styled "friendly conversation"--between the leading Dutch Remonstrant Phillip van Limborch and the Sephardic physician and polemicist Orobio de Castro, which took place in Amsterdam in the early 1680s, was the last prominent respectful theological encounter between a Christian and a Jew until the …
Les nouveaux-juifs d’Amsterdam. Essais sur l’histoire sociale et intellectuelle du judaïsme séfarade au XVIIe siècleKaplanYosef Les nouveaux-juifs d’Amsterdam. Essais sur l’histoire sociale et intelle…
Spinoza. A Life
Symptoms at Play: Soccer, Austria, and the Jewish Question
Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: The Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1914
Judaism in the Anti-Religious Thought of the Clandestine French Early Enlightenment
It has already been noted that Jewish anti-Christian arguments, circulating clandestinely, were a notable inspiration of radical Enlightenment critiques of Christianity. Judaism itself, however, was simultaneously also a prime target of irreligious polemic, most prominently in the work of Voltaire. This paper explores the tension between these two strands of critique, through an examination of the highly ambiguous and unstable status of Judaism i…
Von der Gemeinde zur 'Community'. Jüdische Einwanderer in Chicago 1840-1900
Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
Identity, Space and Intercultural Contact in the Urban Entrepôt: The Sephardic Bounding of Community in Early Modern Amsterdam and London
(2004). Identity, Space and Intercultural Contact in the Urban Entrepôt: The Sephardic Bounding of Community in Early Modern Amsterdam and London. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 7, No. 1-2, pp. 93-108
Complete Works (review)
Judaism and the Politics of Enlightenment
This article explores the political and philosophical significance of Judaism in the thought of the European Enlightenment and the resonance of these debates in Western thought since the 18th century. Judaism and the Jews persistently served as a troublesome limit case, a destabilizing challenge, and a probing test for enlightenment rationalism. Attempts to divide the Enlightenment into "anti-Semitic" and "philosemitic" strands are doomed to fail…
Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought by David N. Myers (review)
264 Max Weber Studies single reference to the relevant literature. A full delineation of Schluchter's points of view therefore awaits the publication of his larger study. The book's second part is shorter and has a different flavour to it. Here the reader finds ample references to present scholarly discussions, and each essay includes frank observations concerning current socio-political conditions and developments. Two essays deal with German po…
The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000
Green space was on the agenda when the history of urban and regional planning became an organised field in the 1970s, but little has been done except in America. A promising monograph was commissioned in 1993 but nothing has come of it. This collective volume is therefore to be welcomed. It is the product of two teams, one composed of Nordic and Russian historians centred on Helsinki and the other of English historians connected with London. Plan…
Sephardic Amsterdam and the Myths of Jewish Modernity
Sephardic Amsterdam and the Myths of Jewish Modernity Adam Sutcliffe (bio) Steven Nadler . Rembrandt's Jews. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii +250. David Liss . The Coffee Trader. New York: Random House, 2003. Pp. 389. Willi Goetschel . Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine. Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. x + 351. Rebecca Gold…
Spinoza, Bayle, and the Enlightenment Politics of Philosophical Certainty
This article explores the complex and contested intellectual relationship between two of the key thinkers of the Early Enlightenment: Spinoza and Bayle. The key issue of contention between them is not, it is argued, the question of the existence and nature of God, but their profoundly contrasting visions of the nature of philosophy as a politically emancipatory practice. The article analyzes Bayle's rejection of Spinoza's systemic certainty, and …
The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500
This mixed bag is the latest round in the ‘urban history meets cultural studies’ saga. Derived from a conference session at Venice in 2002, it looks like the product of a vague ‘call for papers’ powered up under four years of patchy editorial direction, and delayed (we are told) by deaths and the arrival of babies. It is published in the Rodger/Pinol Historical Urban Studies series. Many historians will need to take a deep breath before sampling …
The Origins of Jewish Secularization in 18th Century Europe
The Origins of Jewish Secularization in 18 th Century Europe SHMUEL FEINER AND CHAYA NAOR University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 xvi + 330 pp., £42.50, ISBN 9780812242737 Shmuel Feiner is the leadi
Enlightenment/Haskalah: What's in a Name?: Recent Work on Judaism and the Enlightenment
Enlightenment/Haskalah: What's in a Name?Recent Work on Judaism and the Enlightenment Adam Sutcliffe Lauren B. Strauss AND Michael Brenner, EDS. Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World—Essays in Honor of Michael A. Meyer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 380. David Sorkin . The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews and Catholics from London to Vienna. Princeton, N.J.: Prin…
Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London
The Cambridge History of Judaism
This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, cove…
Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, the Early Modern World, 1500-1815
History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present
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