Gregory Claeys
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 332312 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gregory Claeys |
| PRENOMES | Gregory |
| SOBRENOME | Claeys |
| ASSINATURA | CLAEYS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 87 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
J. S. Mill's Owenite 'Incubus' Revisited
This article considers how John Stuart Mill's relationship with philosophical necessitarianism, or the idea that character is formed by external circumstances, came to pervade his later thought, and was central to his eventual presentation of the famous theory of liberty outlined in On Liberty, for which he remains best known today. My main argument here extends Bernard Semmel's suggestion that "The conflict between philosophical liberty and nece…
Utopianism for a Dying Planet
In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. This book examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of ca…
Utopianism for a Dying Planet
Utopianism for a Dying Planet
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises In the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golde…
Utopianism for a Dying Planet
The Cambridge History of Socialism
This volume describes the various movements and thinkers who wanted social change without state intervention. It covers cases in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The first part discusses early egalitarian experiments and ideologies in Asia, Europe and the Islamic world, and then moves to early socialist thinkers in Britain, France, and Germany. The second part deals with the rise of the two main currents in socialist movements after 1848: a…
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
After Consumerism
This article, written by Gregory Claeys, anticipates some questions that will appear in his book Utopianism for a Dying Planet (2022). The text proposes an analysis of the need to think about utopian responses to environmental collapse. The crisis resulting from consumerism, as an unprecedented social disease, requires a radical and immediate response, at the risk of aggravating the problem and making it irremediable.Keywords: Utopia. Consumerism…
Utopianism for a Dying Planet
Selected Works of Robert Owen
Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century. This book contains all Owen's key writings on the ideal community, socialism, religion, and the capitalist economic system.
The Chartist Movement In Britain 1838–1850
Late Victorian Utopias
Late Victorian Utopias
Selected Works of Robert Owen Vol I
Address Delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark a 1816
The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838–1850
The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838–1850
Selected Works of Robert Owen Vol IV
The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
The evolution of European economic institutions during the Covid‐19 crisis
This article argues that the incomplete economic and institutional integration of the euro area has exposed the monetary union to increasing economic divergence, which could be deepened by the COVID-19 crisis. We discuss how monetary and fiscal measures implemented at the onset of the pandemic have contributed to mitigate the economic consequences of lockdowns, but provided limited insurance to narrow economic gaps across member countries. Howeve…
Moylan and Dystopia
This is a response to Tom Moylan’s article on my Dystopia: A Natural History. There are some serious misapprehensions about my arguments in Moylan’s treatment, as well as a failure to engage with some of the central themes of the book. Substantial differences also clearly exist between my approach and Moylan’s approach to the subject of dystopia and indeed to scholarly engagement in general. Illuminating these further might well assist students o…
European Utopias and Dystopias
After the many meetings held in 2016 to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of Thomas More's Utopia, it seems fitting that we should consider the relevance (or not) of its central themes to the idea of what Europe has come to represent in the past sixty years or so. This article will proceed by recalling More's leading ideas and then indicating how later thinkers, especially after 1800, moved some of these in a specifica…
How Can we Imagine a Post-consumerist Character
The prospect of environmental catastrophe dictates planning for a world-wide reduction in the consumption of commodities in the coming decades, as well as a stabilisation of population. Reducing desires for goods, however, entails rejecting the mentality of consumer society, which has dominated first the west, then much of the rest of the world, for more than a century. This talk examines a number of historical and literary utopian proposals for …
Europe’s utopias of peace
Europe’s utopias of peace: 1815, 1919, 1951." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 24(5), pp. 832–833
Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There
The tone of our times is so unremittingly dystopian that the publication amidst widespread acclamation of a consciously utopian programme must surely be welcome. Coming on the heels of Frederic Jam
Justice, Independence, and Industrial Democracy
Too little considered in relation to major works like On Liberty, the socialist element in Mill's works has met with a very mixed reception when it has been interpreted. Yet Mill's acceptance of certain socialist ideas was not the product of his wife's influence, nor was it contradictory to the central goals of his philosophy of liberty. Instead, Mill's objections to communism were consistent throughout his life, while his commitment to a coopera…
The "Survival of the Fittest" and the Origins of Social Darwinism
In late September 1838 a young man, aged 29, a former medical student and amateur naturalist, who had spent several years in the South Pacific studying plant and animal life, but who remained puzzled as to why "favourable variants" of each species survived while "unfavourable variants" were destroyed, sat perusing a book, as he later recalled, "for amusement." 1 The work which provoked Charles Darwin was T. R. Malthus's Essay on Population (1798)…
Utopia
Journal Article “Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World.” New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Ave. and 42d St., New York, NY 10018 Get access Howard P. Segal Howard P. Segal University of Maine, Orono, Maine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 152–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674924 Publ…
Mazzini, Kossuth, and British Radicalism, 1848–1854
The relative quiescence of British working-class radicalism during much of the two decades after 1848, so central to the foundations of mid-Victorian stability, has been the subject of many explanations. Though Chartism did not expire finally until the late 1850s, its mainstream strategy of constitutionalist organization, huge meetings, enormous parliamentary petitions, and the tacit threat of violent intimidation seemed exploded after the debacl…
Individualism," "Socialism," and "Social Science
Gregory Claeys, "Individualism," "Socialism," and "Social Science": Further Notes on a Process of Conceptual Formation, 1800-1850, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 81-93
News from Somewhere
This article argues that that since utopianism is commonly held to consist of three components, the literary utopia, utopian ideologies and communal movements, the term ‘utopia’ should not describe only the first of these, the formal, literary genre, as is often the case, without addressing the other two, where utopian content is more central. Nor can ‘dystopia’, which has usually been used to describe fictional negative societies. A ‘composite’ …
The Lion and the Unicorn, Patriotism, and Orwell's Politics
The Lion and the Unicornhas remained the most obscure of Orwell's major works, condemned both as a propagandistic attempt to enlist the British left in the war effort and for its erroneous prediction that the war could not been won without a socialist revolution in Britain. Yet it can also be read as Orwell's greatest single attempt to define the values of the democratic socialism to which he adhered from 1936 until his death.Patriotismrepresente…
The evolution of European economic institutions during the Covid‐19 crisis
This article argues that the incomplete economic and institutional integration of the euro area has exposed the monetary union to increasing economic divergence, which could be deepened by the COVID-19 crisis. We discuss how monetary and fiscal measures implemented at the onset of the pandemic have contributed to mitigate the economic consequences of lockdowns, but provided limited insurance to narrow economic gaps across member countries. Howeve…
Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There
The tone of our times is so unremittingly dystopian that the publication amidst widespread acclamation of a consciously utopian programme must surely be welcome. Coming on the heels of Frederic Jam
The Origins of the Rights of Labor
Language,class and historical consciousness in nineteenth century Britain
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers. The project takes as its temporal boundary the period 1789 to 1914. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought primarily covers social and political thinking, but key entries also survey science, religion, law, art, concepts of modernity, the body and health, and so on, and the…
Utopia at Five Hundred
Published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia has come to signify attempts to reform society in a dramatic, radical, and substantial manner. Thanks to the influence of Karl Marx in the twentieth century, it has become identified as the classic precursor of the modern argument for communism as the solution to mankind's most essential woes. This article will sketch the main themes and context of Utopia, suggesting that to modern readers More presents a h…
Early Socialism as Intellectual History
This article examines approaches to early socialism from an intellectual history viewpoint, focussing on British Owenite socialism. It assesses the author's own research in the field over the past thirty-five years in an effort to measure the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches he initially adopted to the field. I am grateful to Ann Thomson in particular for her suggestion to prepare it in the first instance.Notes1 George Jacob Holyoake. T…
The Only Man of Nature That Ever Appeared in the World”
This article explores the ideas of “Walking” John Stewart (1747–1822), a little-known adventurer and philosopher active in debates over social reformation during the French Revolutionary period. Renowned as a peripatetic who walked from India to Britain, Stewart befriended Thomas Paine and others during the early years of the Revolution. His main aim was to persuade them of the value of his philosophy, which was derived from French materialism as…
Before the Luddites
Engels' Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1843) and the Origins of the Marxist Critique of Capitalism
Research Article| June 01 1984 Engels’ Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1843) and the Origins of the Marxist Critique of Capitalism Gregory Claeys Gregory Claeys Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (2): 207–232. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-2-207 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gregory Claeys; Engels’ O…
Republicanism versus commercial society
John Adolphus Etzler, technological utopianism, and British socialism
A Utopian Tory Revolutionary at Cambridge
Agricultural distress following the Napoleonic wars evoked various responses from those classes whose interests were most immediately bound up with the land. Such factors as decreasing market prices and hence wages, a falling standard of living, and rising indebtedness incited, on the one hand, the disciples of Captain Swing to attempt to restore to the agricutural labourer his dispossessed inheritance, or at least to register protest at its loss…
Notes on the Labour Press
Notes on Labour Biography
Notes on the Labour Press
Paternalism and Democracy in the Politics of Robert Owen
Popular conceptions of the politics of Robert Owen have changed surprisingly little since the early nineteenth century. Within a short time of the advent of his national campaign for Poor Law reform, Owen came under attack from radical parliamentary reformers on the grounds of his ostensible political conservatism. Among the rumours then afloat among the reformers, Richard Carlile later wrote, one was “that Mr. Owen was an instrument of the Gover…
A Utopian Tory Revolutionary at Cambridge
Agricultural distress following the Napoleonic wars evoked various responses from those classes whose interests were most immediately bound up with the land. Such factors as decreasing market prices and hence wages, a falling standard of living, and rising indebtedness incited, on the one hand, the disciples of Captain Swing to attempt to restore to the agricutural labourer his dispossessed inheritance, or at least to register protest at its loss…
The Triumph of Class-conscious Reformism in British Radicalism, 1790–1860
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The Concept of “Political Justice” in Godwin's Political Justice
Short notices
Ruth Kastner, Geistlicher Rauffhandel. Form und Funktion der illustrierten Flugblütter zum Reformationsjubiläum 1617 (1982), 421 (Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, n.p.) (Clerical Rowdyism. Form and Function of the Illustrated Broadsheets for the Reformation Jubilee of 1617). Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants. The Church in English Society 1559–1625 (1982), xiv+297 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £17.50). Etienne François, Koblenz im 1…
Engels' Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1843) and the Origins of the Marxist Critique of Capitalism
Research Article| June 01 1984 Engels’ Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1843) and the Origins of the Marxist Critique of Capitalism Gregory Claeys Gregory Claeys Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (2): 207–232. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-2-207 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gregory Claeys; Engels’ O…
Short notices
Richard Weisman, Witchcraft, Magic and Religion in Seventeenth‐Century Massachusetts (1984), xiv+267 (The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Mass., $22.50). Gregory H. Nobles, Divisions Throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740–1775 (1983), xii+258 (Cambridge University Press, £22.50). Bruce C. Daniels, Dissent and Conformity on Narragansett Bay: The Colonial Rhode Island Town (1983), xii+137 (We…
The Lion and the Unicorn, Patriotism, and Orwell's Politics
The Lion and the Unicornhas remained the most obscure of Orwell's major works, condemned both as a propagandistic attempt to enlist the British left in the war effort and for its erroneous prediction that the war could not been won without a socialist revolution in Britain. Yet it can also be read as Orwell's greatest single attempt to define the values of the democratic socialism to which he adhered from 1936 until his death.Patriotismrepresente…
Language,class and historical consciousness in nineteenth century Britain
A critique of freedom and equality
William Godwin's critique of democracy and republicanism and its sources
Ecology and Technology in Early Nineteenth Century American Utopianism
John Adolphus Etzler, technological utopianism, and British socialism
Individualism," "Socialism," and "Social Science
Gregory Claeys, "Individualism," "Socialism," and "Social Science": Further Notes on a Process of Conceptual Formation, 1800-1850, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 81-93
Mass Culture and World Culture
The debate over the influence of American culture upon Europe and the rest of the world is hardly new. Discussions about the cultural effects of video recorders, satellite broadcasting, cable television and their likely content are only the latest episode in a long-running drama in which the young and aggressive culture of America bludgeons the elderly culture of old Europe (or correspondingly overruns and wipes out the quaint but ill-armed ethni…
Short notices
David Herlihy, Medieval Households (1985), vii + 227 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., £23#lb50, paperback £8#lb95). Peter Blickle, Gemeindereformation. Die Menschen des 16. Jahrhunderts auf dem Weg zum Heil (1985), 234 (Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, DM 88). [Communal Reformation. People of the Sixteenth Century on the Road to Salvation.] Giovanni Levi, L'eredità immateriale: camera di un esorcista nel Piemonte del seicento (1985), 202 (E…
Justice, Independence, and Industrial Democracy
Too little considered in relation to major works like On Liberty, the socialist element in Mill's works has met with a very mixed reception when it has been interpreted. Yet Mill's acceptance of certain socialist ideas was not the product of his wife's influence, nor was it contradictory to the central goals of his philosophy of liberty. Instead, Mill's objections to communism were consistent throughout his life, while his commitment to a coopera…
Lewis Masquerier and the later development of American Owenism, 1835–1845
Citizens and Saints
Citizens and Saints is a comprehensive study of the profound rupture in the language of reform and revolution which occurred with the rise of socialism. Focusing upon British Owenite socialism, Professor Claeys argues that two schools of political thinking emerged from the 'social' critique of contemporary political radicalism. One, largely identified with Owenite perfectibilism, aimed to transcend existing forms of democracy and to establish mor…
Citizens and saints
Republicanism versus commercial society
Mazzini, Kossuth, and British Radicalism, 1848–1854
The relative quiescence of British working-class radicalism during much of the two decades after 1848, so central to the foundations of mid-Victorian stability, has been the subject of many explanations. Though Chartism did not expire finally until the late 1850s, its mainstream strategy of constitutionalist organization, huge meetings, enormous parliamentary petitions, and the tacit threat of violent intimidation seemed exploded after the debacl…
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