Graeme Garrard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Garrard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrard |
| SIGNATURE | GARRARD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0782-6361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fearful Asymmetry: The Troubled History of Canada, the US, and Norad
The historic agreement that Canada and the United States signed to set up a single, integrated command of their continental air defense forces in 1958 as a direct response to the new threat posed by Soviet nuclear bombers was an unprecedented experiment for both. The headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs is under the command of a US Air Force general with direct operational control of US and Canadian c…
Children of the state: Rousseau’s republican educational theory and child abandonment
Rousseau is among the most influential and important public moralists of the eighteenth century. His popular treatise on education, Emile, argues that parents should ideally rear their own children. It is small wonder, therefore, that his decision to place his own children in a foundling hospital has exposed Rousseau to the charge of hypocrisy and seriously damaged his credibility as a moralist and educational theorist. This article argues that t…
John Stuart Mill and the liberal idea of Canada
The writer and politician John Stuart Mill played an important role in the two greatest constitutional moments of nineteenth-century Canada: he publicly supported Lord Durham's 1838 report on Canada and he voted for the British North American Act (1867) that formed the Dominion of Canada. Mill had a part, in his own mind an important part, in Canada's evolution from colony to self-governing dominion. I argue that his attitude to Canada was broadl…
Rousseau, Happiness and Human Nature
In the eighteenth century, Rousseau argued that the principal source of human unhappiness was our tendency to make invidious comparisons when humans were forced to cooperate in the pre-social state of nature. This increased proximity fuelled a desire for status and relative position which is the main source of the unhappiness in modern civilisation. I argue, first, that there is now substantial evidence supporting Rousseau's view that status matt…
Nietzsche For and Against the Enlightenment
This essay explores Nietzsche's attitude to the Enlightenment, which the author argues underwent a major reversal between his so-called middle works and his later writings. The author examines the nature of this change and considers some of the reasons behind it. In the process, some of Nietzsche's “postmodern” admirers are taken to task for appropriating his criticisms of the Enlightenment without acknowledging his ambivalence toward it. Further…
The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought
The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought. By Jesse Goldhammer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 218p. $45.00. The problem of how to found a political regime is one of the oldest and most vexed in the history of Western thought. The founding act has often been drenched in blood because certain forms of violence actually help to foster political foundation. This is the illiberal starting point of Jesse Goldham…
The Enlightenment and Its Enemies
The first part of this article addresses some of the semantic and conceptual problems that plague the terms the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment to tidy up their use and clarify their meaning. The second part assesses some of the most common and important criticisms that have been made of the Enlightenment by its enemies since the 18th century. It concludes that although the portraits of the Enlightenment that have been sketched by its…
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler, Mark Lilla, Roger Hausheer, John Robertson, Darrin M. McMahon, Frederick Beiser, Graeme Garrard, Lionel Gossman, John E. Toews, Michael Confino, Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 5 (2003), pp. i-xi, 1-11, 13-31, 33-71, 73-131, 133-196
Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt
The curious enlightenment of professor Rorty
Richard Rorty has devised a highly distinctive strategy for resisting what Michel Foucault once denounced as “the blackmail of the Enlightenment,” according to which one is forced to take a stand either for or against it. Rorty distinguishes between the liberal political values of the Enlightenment, which he embraces “unflinchingly,” and its universal philosophical claims about truth, reason and nature, which he completely renounces. Rorty argues…
An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon: Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy Are Treated . Joseph de Maistre , Richard A. Lebrun
The legacy of Rousseau
The counter‐enlightenment liberalism of Isaiah Berlin
Liberalism is conventionally viewed as an ‘Enlightenment’ ideology. Most liberals regard themselves as the natural heirs of the Enlightenment, which is commonly held to be either the origin of liberalism or one of the most decisive moments in its development. This paper contests this view of the relationship between liberalism and the Enlightenment by contrasting it with a form of liberalism that traces its genesis to the reaction against the Enl…
Joseph de Maistre's Civilization and its Discontents
Joseph de Maistre’s Civilization and its Discontents Graeme Garrard In his study of Sigmund Freud’s social and political thought Paul Roazen claims that Freud was the first to depict the human psyche as torn between two fundamentally antithetical tendencies: The notion of a human nature in conflict with itself, disrupted by the opposition of social and asocial inclinations, the view that the social self develops from an asocial nucleus but that t…
The crooked timber of humanity: Chapters in the history of ideas
The crooked timber of humanity: Chapters in the history of ideas." History of European Ideas, 14(2), p. 284
Joseph de Maistre: An intellectual militant
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler, Mark Lilla, Roger Hausheer, John Robertson, Darrin M. McMahon, Frederick Beiser, Graeme Garrard, Lionel Gossman, John E. Toews, Michael Confino, Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 5 (2003), pp. i-xi, 1-11, 13-31, 33-71, 73-131, 133-196
The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought
The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought. By Jesse Goldhammer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 218p. $45.00. The problem of how to found a political regime is one of the oldest and most vexed in the history of Western thought. The founding act has often been drenched in blood because certain forms of violence actually help to foster political foundation. This is the illiberal starting point of Jesse Goldham…
The counter‐enlightenment liberalism of Isaiah Berlin
Liberalism is conventionally viewed as an ‘Enlightenment’ ideology. Most liberals regard themselves as the natural heirs of the Enlightenment, which is commonly held to be either the origin of liberalism or one of the most decisive moments in its development. This paper contests this view of the relationship between liberalism and the Enlightenment by contrasting it with a form of liberalism that traces its genesis to the reaction against the Enl…
The Enlightenment and Its Enemies
The first part of this article addresses some of the semantic and conceptual problems that plague the terms the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment to tidy up their use and clarify their meaning. The second part assesses some of the most common and important criticisms that have been made of the Enlightenment by its enemies since the 18th century. It concludes that although the portraits of the Enlightenment that have been sketched by its…
Nietzsche For and Against the Enlightenment
This essay explores Nietzsche's attitude to the Enlightenment, which the author argues underwent a major reversal between his so-called middle works and his later writings. The author examines the nature of this change and considers some of the reasons behind it. In the process, some of Nietzsche's “postmodern” admirers are taken to task for appropriating his criticisms of the Enlightenment without acknowledging his ambivalence toward it. Further…
Joseph de Maistre's Civilization and its Discontents
Joseph de Maistre’s Civilization and its Discontents Graeme Garrard In his study of Sigmund Freud’s social and political thought Paul Roazen claims that Freud was the first to depict the human psyche as torn between two fundamentally antithetical tendencies: The notion of a human nature in conflict with itself, disrupted by the opposition of social and asocial inclinations, the view that the social self develops from an asocial nucleus but that t…
Rousseau, Happiness and Human Nature
In the eighteenth century, Rousseau argued that the principal source of human unhappiness was our tendency to make invidious comparisons when humans were forced to cooperate in the pre-social state of nature. This increased proximity fuelled a desire for status and relative position which is the main source of the unhappiness in modern civilisation. I argue, first, that there is now substantial evidence supporting Rousseau's view that status matt…
Joseph de Maistre: An intellectual militant
The crooked timber of humanity: Chapters in the history of ideas
The crooked timber of humanity: Chapters in the history of ideas." History of European Ideas, 14(2), p. 284
Joseph de Maistre: An intellectual militant
Joseph de Maistre's Civilization and its Discontents
Joseph de Maistre’s Civilization and its Discontents Graeme Garrard In his study of Sigmund Freud’s social and political thought Paul Roazen claims that Freud was the first to depict the human psyche as torn between two fundamentally antithetical tendencies: The notion of a human nature in conflict with itself, disrupted by the opposition of social and asocial inclinations, the view that the social self develops from an asocial nucleus but that t…
The counter‐enlightenment liberalism of Isaiah Berlin
Liberalism is conventionally viewed as an ‘Enlightenment’ ideology. Most liberals regard themselves as the natural heirs of the Enlightenment, which is commonly held to be either the origin of liberalism or one of the most decisive moments in its development. This paper contests this view of the relationship between liberalism and the Enlightenment by contrasting it with a form of liberalism that traces its genesis to the reaction against the Enl…
An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon: Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy Are Treated . Joseph de Maistre , Richard A. Lebrun
The legacy of Rousseau
The curious enlightenment of professor Rorty
Richard Rorty has devised a highly distinctive strategy for resisting what Michel Foucault once denounced as “the blackmail of the Enlightenment,” according to which one is forced to take a stand either for or against it. Rorty distinguishes between the liberal political values of the Enlightenment, which he embraces “unflinchingly,” and its universal philosophical claims about truth, reason and nature, which he completely renounces. Rorty argues…
Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler, Mark Lilla, Roger Hausheer, John Robertson, Darrin M. McMahon, Frederick Beiser, Graeme Garrard, Lionel Gossman, John E. Toews, Michael Confino, Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 5 (2003), pp. i-xi, 1-11, 13-31, 33-71, 73-131, 133-196
The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought
The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought. By Jesse Goldhammer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 218p. $45.00. The problem of how to found a political regime is one of the oldest and most vexed in the history of Western thought. The founding act has often been drenched in blood because certain forms of violence actually help to foster political foundation. This is the illiberal starting point of Jesse Goldham…
The Enlightenment and Its Enemies
The first part of this article addresses some of the semantic and conceptual problems that plague the terms the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment to tidy up their use and clarify their meaning. The second part assesses some of the most common and important criticisms that have been made of the Enlightenment by its enemies since the 18th century. It concludes that although the portraits of the Enlightenment that have been sketched by its…
Nietzsche For and Against the Enlightenment
This essay explores Nietzsche's attitude to the Enlightenment, which the author argues underwent a major reversal between his so-called middle works and his later writings. The author examines the nature of this change and considers some of the reasons behind it. In the process, some of Nietzsche's “postmodern” admirers are taken to task for appropriating his criticisms of the Enlightenment without acknowledging his ambivalence toward it. Further…
Rousseau, Happiness and Human Nature
In the eighteenth century, Rousseau argued that the principal source of human unhappiness was our tendency to make invidious comparisons when humans were forced to cooperate in the pre-social state of nature. This increased proximity fuelled a desire for status and relative position which is the main source of the unhappiness in modern civilisation. I argue, first, that there is now substantial evidence supporting Rousseau's view that status matt…
Children of the state: Rousseau’s republican educational theory and child abandonment
Rousseau is among the most influential and important public moralists of the eighteenth century. His popular treatise on education, Emile, argues that parents should ideally rear their own children. It is small wonder, therefore, that his decision to place his own children in a foundling hospital has exposed Rousseau to the charge of hypocrisy and seriously damaged his credibility as a moralist and educational theorist. This article argues that t…
John Stuart Mill and the liberal idea of Canada
The writer and politician John Stuart Mill played an important role in the two greatest constitutional moments of nineteenth-century Canada: he publicly supported Lord Durham's 1838 report on Canada and he voted for the British North American Act (1867) that formed the Dominion of Canada. Mill had a part, in his own mind an important part, in Canada's evolution from colony to self-governing dominion. I argue that his attitude to Canada was broadl…
Fearful Asymmetry: The Troubled History of Canada, the US, and Norad
The historic agreement that Canada and the United States signed to set up a single, integrated command of their continental air defense forces in 1958 as a direct response to the new threat posed by Soviet nuclear bombers was an unprecedented experiment for both. The headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs is under the command of a US Air Force general with direct operational control of US and Canadian c…
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