Pierre Force
Biographic Data
| ID | 323434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Force |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Force |
| SIGNATURE | FORCE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0758-5226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hacer fortuna en los márgenes de la Carrera de Indias: Ferdinand y Jean Roger, negociantes vascofranceses en Cádiz (1757-1812)
Basado en la explotación de fuentes públicas y privadas inéditas, el artículo propone reconstituir la trayectoria social y profesional de los hermanos Roger, dos modestos comerciantes originarios de las provincias vascas de Francia que hicieron fortuna en el comercio de Cádiz a finales del siglo XVIII. Explora las condiciones de su ascenso social y los recursos que lograron movilizar en un contexto extremadamente difícil para ellos, por las turbu…
Cuba as a Center of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Carricaburu Family Network, 1791-1820
The period 1808-20 was a peculiar moment in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, when the trafficking was banned by the United States and Britain but still allowed by Spain. In that brief period, during which the trade reached its highest point in history, Cuban slavers made large fortunes, which were reinvested in the island's fast-growing plantation economy. This article focuses on the Havana-based owners of the Josefa Segunda , a Spanish s…
"The "Exasperating Predecessor: Pocock on Gibbon and Voltaire
This article offers a critical discussion of Pocock's analysis of the relationship between Gibbon and Voltaire, and particularly the extent to which Decline and Fall was inspired by Voltaire's Essai sur les moeurs . It shows that "Momigliano's hypothesis" about the divorce of philosophy and erudition and their reconciliation in Gibbon was initially a commentary by Momigliano on Voltaire's historical work. It argues that the "Momiglianian model" p…
The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
In 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court to repossess a house on the edge of town he had sold two years before to Charles Lamerenx, a white man from Saint Domingue. Despite being on opposite sides of a racial divide, the men and their families had much in common as "Atlantic creoles." In this study, I test the meaning and explanatory power of Ira Berlin's concept of "Atlantic creole" by telling the …
Stratégies matrimoniales et émigration vers l'Amérique au XVIIIesiècle: La maison Berrio de La Bastide Clairence
Avant l'émigration de masse vers l'Amérique du Sud au XIXesiècle, les communautés rurales des Pyrénées occidentales connurent un mouvement migratoire notable vers Saint-Domingue et les autres îles des Caraïbes. Cette étude porte sur les rapports entre les mouvements migratoires et l'organisation de ces communautés en ' sociétés à maisons ' (Claude Lévi- Strauss), où la continuité de la ' maison ' était essentielle et aucune nouvelle ' maison ' ne…
The Teeth of Time: Pierre Hadot on Meaning and Misunderstanding in the History of Ideas1
The French philosopher and intellectual historian Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) is known primarily for his conception of philosophy as spiritual exercise, which was an essential reference for the later Foucault. An aspect of his work that has received less attention is a set of methodological reflections on intellectual history and on the relationship between philosophy and history. Hadot was trained initially as a philosopher and was interested in ex…
Voltaire and the Necessity of Modern History
This article revisits what has often been called the “naive presentism” of Voltaire's historical work. It looks at the methodological and philosophical reasons for Voltaire's deliberate focus on modern history as opposed to ancient history, his refusal to “make allowances for time” in judging the past, and his extreme selectiveness in determining the relevance of past events to world history. Voltaire's historical practice is put in the context o…
Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism
Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism Pierre Force Since the publication of Pierre Hadot's essays on ancient philosophy by Arnold Davidson in 1995,2 Michel Foucault's late work on "the care of the self"3 has appeared in a new light. We now know that Hadot's work was familiar to Foucault as early as the 1950s.4 It is also clear that Foucault's notion of "techniques of the self" is very close to what Hadot calls "spiritual exercises." At the s…
Écriture fragmentaire et hagiographie: Le rôle des textes liminaires dans la réception des Pensées de Pascal
La préface de l’édition de Port-Royal des Pensées de Pascal (1670) rédigée par Étienne Périer, et la Vie de Pascal par sa soeur Gilberte Périer proposent un protocole de lecture des Pensées dont l’influence persiste encore aujourd’hui. On part de la constatation du caractère fragmentaire et incomplet de l’oeuvre. L’incomplétude de l’oeuvre suscite un désir de complétude qui se réalise dans une méditation sur la perfection et la sainteté de la vie…
First Principles in Translation: The Axiom of Self-Interest from Adam Smith to Jean-Baptiste Say
Research Article| June 01 2006 First Principles in Translation: The Axiom of Self-Interest from Adam Smith to Jean-Baptiste Say Pierre Force Pierre Force Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (2): 319–338. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pierre Force; First Principles in Translatio…
Innovation as Spiritual Exercise: Montaigne and Pascal
Taking Pascal's appropriation of Montaigne as its main example, this article asks what it means to "say something new" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that literary and philosophical innovation is best understood in reference to the rhetorical tradition, and it analyzes what "saying something new" means in terms of inventio, dispositio, elocutio, decorum, and ethos. Close attention is also paid to the relationship between ec…
Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self-interest is the motive of human action). Yet, as a neo-Epicurean idea, this hypothesis had been a matter of controversy for over a century and Smith opposed it from a neo-Stoic …
Self-Love, Identification, and the Origin of Political Economy
La sympathie, la pitie et l'identification sont des notions synonymes dans la philosophie du XVIII e siecle. L'A. se penche plus particulierement sur le concept d'identification en effectuant son historique, puis en traitant des rapports que l'identification peut avoir avec l'amour de soi et le commerce (entendu comme echange au sens large du terme). Rousseau et La Rochefoucauld sont ici directement concernes, puisqu'ils participent largement a l…
Renaud Camus
The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
In 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court to repossess a house on the edge of town he had sold two years before to Charles Lamerenx, a white man from Saint Domingue. Despite being on opposite sides of a racial divide, the men and their families had much in common as "Atlantic creoles." In this study, I test the meaning and explanatory power of Ira Berlin's concept of "Atlantic creole" by telling the …
Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism
Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism Pierre Force Since the publication of Pierre Hadot's essays on ancient philosophy by Arnold Davidson in 1995,2 Michel Foucault's late work on "the care of the self"3 has appeared in a new light. We now know that Hadot's work was familiar to Foucault as early as the 1950s.4 It is also clear that Foucault's notion of "techniques of the self" is very close to what Hadot calls "spiritual exercises." At the s…
First Principles in Translation: The Axiom of Self-Interest from Adam Smith to Jean-Baptiste Say
Research Article| June 01 2006 First Principles in Translation: The Axiom of Self-Interest from Adam Smith to Jean-Baptiste Say Pierre Force Pierre Force Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (2): 319–338. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pierre Force; First Principles in Translatio…
Innovation as Spiritual Exercise: Montaigne and Pascal
Taking Pascal's appropriation of Montaigne as its main example, this article asks what it means to "say something new" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that literary and philosophical innovation is best understood in reference to the rhetorical tradition, and it analyzes what "saying something new" means in terms of inventio, dispositio, elocutio, decorum, and ethos. Close attention is also paid to the relationship between ec…
Stratégies matrimoniales et émigration vers l'Amérique au XVIIIesiècle: La maison Berrio de La Bastide Clairence
Avant l'émigration de masse vers l'Amérique du Sud au XIXesiècle, les communautés rurales des Pyrénées occidentales connurent un mouvement migratoire notable vers Saint-Domingue et les autres îles des Caraïbes. Cette étude porte sur les rapports entre les mouvements migratoires et l'organisation de ces communautés en ' sociétés à maisons ' (Claude Lévi- Strauss), où la continuité de la ' maison ' était essentielle et aucune nouvelle ' maison ' ne…
The Teeth of Time: Pierre Hadot on Meaning and Misunderstanding in the History of Ideas1
The French philosopher and intellectual historian Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) is known primarily for his conception of philosophy as spiritual exercise, which was an essential reference for the later Foucault. An aspect of his work that has received less attention is a set of methodological reflections on intellectual history and on the relationship between philosophy and history. Hadot was trained initially as a philosopher and was interested in ex…
Voltaire and the Necessity of Modern History
This article revisits what has often been called the “naive presentism” of Voltaire's historical work. It looks at the methodological and philosophical reasons for Voltaire's deliberate focus on modern history as opposed to ancient history, his refusal to “make allowances for time” in judging the past, and his extreme selectiveness in determining the relevance of past events to world history. Voltaire's historical practice is put in the context o…
Renaud Camus
Self-Love, Identification, and the Origin of Political Economy
La sympathie, la pitie et l'identification sont des notions synonymes dans la philosophie du XVIII e siecle. L'A. se penche plus particulierement sur le concept d'identification en effectuant son historique, puis en traitant des rapports que l'identification peut avoir avec l'amour de soi et le commerce (entendu comme echange au sens large du terme). Rousseau et La Rochefoucauld sont ici directement concernes, puisqu'ils participent largement a l…
Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self-interest is the motive of human action). Yet, as a neo-Epicurean idea, this hypothesis had been a matter of controversy for over a century and Smith opposed it from a neo-Stoic …
Innovation as Spiritual Exercise: Montaigne and Pascal
Taking Pascal's appropriation of Montaigne as its main example, this article asks what it means to "say something new" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that literary and philosophical innovation is best understood in reference to the rhetorical tradition, and it analyzes what "saying something new" means in terms of inventio, dispositio, elocutio, decorum, and ethos. Close attention is also paid to the relationship between ec…
Écriture fragmentaire et hagiographie: Le rôle des textes liminaires dans la réception des Pensées de Pascal
La préface de l’édition de Port-Royal des Pensées de Pascal (1670) rédigée par Étienne Périer, et la Vie de Pascal par sa soeur Gilberte Périer proposent un protocole de lecture des Pensées dont l’influence persiste encore aujourd’hui. On part de la constatation du caractère fragmentaire et incomplet de l’oeuvre. L’incomplétude de l’oeuvre suscite un désir de complétude qui se réalise dans une méditation sur la perfection et la sainteté de la vie…
First Principles in Translation: The Axiom of Self-Interest from Adam Smith to Jean-Baptiste Say
Research Article| June 01 2006 First Principles in Translation: The Axiom of Self-Interest from Adam Smith to Jean-Baptiste Say Pierre Force Pierre Force Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (2): 319–338. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2005-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pierre Force; First Principles in Translatio…
Voltaire and the Necessity of Modern History
This article revisits what has often been called the “naive presentism” of Voltaire's historical work. It looks at the methodological and philosophical reasons for Voltaire's deliberate focus on modern history as opposed to ancient history, his refusal to “make allowances for time” in judging the past, and his extreme selectiveness in determining the relevance of past events to world history. Voltaire's historical practice is put in the context o…
Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism
Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism Pierre Force Since the publication of Pierre Hadot's essays on ancient philosophy by Arnold Davidson in 1995,2 Michel Foucault's late work on "the care of the self"3 has appeared in a new light. We now know that Hadot's work was familiar to Foucault as early as the 1950s.4 It is also clear that Foucault's notion of "techniques of the self" is very close to what Hadot calls "spiritual exercises." At the s…
The Teeth of Time: Pierre Hadot on Meaning and Misunderstanding in the History of Ideas1
The French philosopher and intellectual historian Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) is known primarily for his conception of philosophy as spiritual exercise, which was an essential reference for the later Foucault. An aspect of his work that has received less attention is a set of methodological reflections on intellectual history and on the relationship between philosophy and history. Hadot was trained initially as a philosopher and was interested in ex…
The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
In 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court to repossess a house on the edge of town he had sold two years before to Charles Lamerenx, a white man from Saint Domingue. Despite being on opposite sides of a racial divide, the men and their families had much in common as "Atlantic creoles." In this study, I test the meaning and explanatory power of Ira Berlin's concept of "Atlantic creole" by telling the …
Stratégies matrimoniales et émigration vers l'Amérique au XVIIIesiècle: La maison Berrio de La Bastide Clairence
Avant l'émigration de masse vers l'Amérique du Sud au XIXesiècle, les communautés rurales des Pyrénées occidentales connurent un mouvement migratoire notable vers Saint-Domingue et les autres îles des Caraïbes. Cette étude porte sur les rapports entre les mouvements migratoires et l'organisation de ces communautés en ' sociétés à maisons ' (Claude Lévi- Strauss), où la continuité de la ' maison ' était essentielle et aucune nouvelle ' maison ' ne…
"The "Exasperating Predecessor: Pocock on Gibbon and Voltaire
This article offers a critical discussion of Pocock's analysis of the relationship between Gibbon and Voltaire, and particularly the extent to which Decline and Fall was inspired by Voltaire's Essai sur les moeurs . It shows that "Momigliano's hypothesis" about the divorce of philosophy and erudition and their reconciliation in Gibbon was initially a commentary by Momigliano on Voltaire's historical work. It argues that the "Momiglianian model" p…
Hacer fortuna en los márgenes de la Carrera de Indias: Ferdinand y Jean Roger, negociantes vascofranceses en Cádiz (1757-1812)
Basado en la explotación de fuentes públicas y privadas inéditas, el artículo propone reconstituir la trayectoria social y profesional de los hermanos Roger, dos modestos comerciantes originarios de las provincias vascas de Francia que hicieron fortuna en el comercio de Cádiz a finales del siglo XVIII. Explora las condiciones de su ascenso social y los recursos que lograron movilizar en un contexto extremadamente difícil para ellos, por las turbu…
Cuba as a Center of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Carricaburu Family Network, 1791-1820
The period 1808-20 was a peculiar moment in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, when the trafficking was banned by the United States and Britain but still allowed by Spain. In that brief period, during which the trade reached its highest point in history, Cuban slavers made large fortunes, which were reinvested in the island's fast-growing plantation economy. This article focuses on the Havana-based owners of the Josefa Segunda , a Spanish s…
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