The European Legacy
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (GB) |
| ISSN | 1084-8770 / 1470-1316 |
| Scopus | 5600153136 |
| OpenAlex | S25616042 |
| MAG | 25616042 |
| Website | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1084-8770&linktype=1 |
| Total publications | 3.046 |
| Coverage period | 1996 - 2026 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 568 |
| Impact factor | 0.089 |
| SJR | 0.188 (Q2) |
| SNIP | 0.585 |
| CiteScore | 0.3 |
| h-index | 8 |
| i10-index | 4 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.0096 |
| Female authorship share | 25.0% |
This journal focuses on European intellectual history, cultural studies, and philosophy. It aligns with cultural studies and social/cultural history, making it a cognate social science/humanities venue with regular anthropological intersection
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The Entire World is my Homeland: Erasmus’s Universalism Reexamined
Erasmus condemned nationalism, but did he promote universalism? In two essays examining Erasmus’s attitudes toward Jews and Judaism, Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier and Christine Christ-von Wedel rationalize a universalist understanding of Erasmus based on their interpretation of Erasmus as not antisemitic. My paper challenges these two essays, and more broadly the volume in which Cancik-Lindemaier’s piece appears: Ralf Schöppner (ed.), Erasmus von R…
Guardians of the Immature: Conception of the People in Eighteenth-Century France
In eighteenth-century France, “the people” came to embody two contradictory conceptions. On the one hand, the concept absorbed all the negative attributes philosophers associated with the populace, including vulgarity, superstition, servility, selfishness, and misery, fostering a skeptical and pessimistic view of their capacity for enlightenment. On the other, it was entrusted with republican ideals of liberty, autonomy and virtue. This article r…
On Tarrying and the Control of Meaning as Purpose
This essay examines the paradoxical human impulse to control meaning by scripting permanence into finite existence, a compulsion that manifests in religious, political, and personal forms. Drawing from Jeff Noonan’s account of “tarrying with meaninglessness,” it argues that the attempt to secure significance through purpose (whether divine destiny, national myth, or personal legacy) ultimately negates the fragile sources of value in lived experie…
The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism
Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson, who both teach at Rutgers Law School, argue in The Weaponization of Expertise that an unhealthy conflation of academic expertise and elite power in the Unit
Austria Neglecta: Rethinking the Theory of Nationalism between Acton, Mazzini, and the Habsburg Legacy
Following Benedict Anderson and the opening definition in Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism, often treated as definitive, prominent political scientists conflate patriotism, nation-building, and a desire for self-determination with nationalism. The result is a consensus among scholars of nationalism that nationalism is even benign and liberal. Yet these views are based on ahistorical assumptions, including the belief that the creation of m…
A Consummate Translation: ‘Of new embodied shapes transformed, my mind / Is moved to speak!’
This edition is an astonishing piece of work. Indeed, I feel urged to acknowledge at once that it opens doors to multiple perspectives on a subject matter which ought to belong to our common poetic
Schopenhauermusik: A Sceptical View of Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Music
Let us make no bones about it: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a philosophical and literary genius, as well as a polymath and egomaniac. But to scale this essay down to manageable proportions
The Growing Need for ‘Sensible, Secure, and Safe Online Behavior’
This pioneering work explores the human dimension of cyber attacks, and specifically the “rhetoric of deception”—its sources, dynamics, and allure, via a computational, applied analysis of the mess
Strasbourg: A Laboratory of German Idealism
The reception of German Idealism in nineteenth-century France tends to be viewed through the lens of Victor Cousin’s eclecticism, yet this perspective neglects key cross-border exchanges on the margins of the Parisian centre, including those that took place in Strasbourg. In Strasbourg there were two competing centres of knowledge that were representative of the broader French philosophical landscape: the Séminaire protestant and the Faculté des …
Post-Kantian Frontier-Towns: Introduction
“German Idealism” was not always German. The reception of Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, J. W. F. Schelling, and G. W. F. Hegel was a transnational event, which took the form of translations, cross-b
Naples as a Philosophical Frontier, 1799–1959: On Modernization, Idealism, and Non-History
This essay focuses on the ways in which the reception of German Idealism in Naples, throughout the nineteenth century, fed into the struggle between modernization and Southern Italian culture that culminated in the failure of the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799. By drawing on a variety of texts, ranging from Vincenzo Cuoco’s 1801 Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione napoletana del 1799 to Ernesto de Martino’s 1959 Sud e magia, I trace the reception and…
Hybrid Constellations
In this essay, I reflect on the idea of reading the historiography of post-Kantian philosophy after the spatial turn, and, in particular, I look to the “strong spatial imagery” deployed by Dieter Henrich and others as part of his Konstellationsforschung project. I describe, in turn, the concrete constellation-space of historical figures and documents and the Denkraum (conceptual space) constructed within Konstellationsforschung, and then examine …
Inherited Contradictions: Between ‘New Slaves’ and ‘The New Man’
Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens, by William Max Nelson, is a carefully documented intellectual history that describes and explains the emergence o
Persia and Imperial Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Epics
This article examines the representations of Persia by comparing and contrasting them in four early modern epics: Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Camões’s The Lusiads, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered. It argues that although ancient Persia serves as a symbol of imperial grandeur, decline, or Otherness, its image is neither one-dimensional nor monolithic, and serves other ideological agendas. Spenser recasts Persia as a moral …
Ending Poverty in America Is Not a Pipe Dream
Here are the numbers: One in nine Americans live in poverty. Thirty-eight million Americans cannot afford basic necessities. Eighteen million live under what is called the “deep poverty line,” earn
Rudolf Borchardt’s Epilegomena to Homer: A Translation and Commentary
This essay is as brilliant and imaginative a piece of literary investigation of the vexed ‘Homeric Question’ as the reader is likely to encounter anywhere. Let us make no bones about it: despite ex
Women’s Right to Have Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Political Praxis of Femizone
While the “women’s rights are human rights” movement has significantly advanced women’s rights, it has paid insufficient attention to the establishment of political space for women’s political rights, and the need to strengthen women’s empowerment and democratic citizenship. This article aims to address these theoretical gaps by incorporating Hannah Arendt’s concept of “the right to have rights.” Arendt’s political theory, while recognizing the i…
Michael Oakeshott’s Critique of Technocracy: Politics and Poetics under Technoscience
Although Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) wrote on diverse philosophical topics, from the 1930s onwards, “technocracy” became a recurrent theme in his works, the full scope of which we attempt to reconstruct in this article. Following the intimations of several commentators, we identify the genesis of Oakeshott’s critique of technocracy in his early work, Experience and Its Modes (1933), in which he proposed a pluralist model of social communication…
My Second Career: The Perks and Perils of Editing The European Legacy
Humans have already changed the world several times by changing the way they have had conversations. ... In the past that gave us the Renaissance, t
Can Animals Reason?Hobbes’s Theory of Nonverbal Reasoning and Animal Reasoning
This article reconstructs Thomas Hobbes’s theory of nonverbal reasoning and examines its implications for animal cognition. While Hobbes is often read as reducing reason to verbal computation, close analysis of Leviathan, De Corpore, and earlier texts reveals a more nuanced account in which reasoning originates as the imaginative “computation” of phantasms. While acknowledging discrepancies between different works, the article emphasizes their un…
A Prophesy of Modern Conceit
Paradise Lost is not merely an epic wrought from a source (viz. Scripture) that has lost its cultural and political authority, it is also both a tribute to the power of guidance of that source, and
The Rupture with Dialectics: Stirner as a Non-Hegelian
From Marx and Engels to Lawrence Stepelevich, Max Stirner has long been regarded as the last of the Hegelians, with his thought often interpreted as either an imitation or a continuation of the Hegelian system, or even as the ultimate unfolding of Hegelian dialectics. This article challenges this prevailing view by analyzing Stirner’s stance on the relationship between the self and the object. Through an examination of his treatment of key Hegeli…
The Genuine University: Reflections from the Butterfield Archive
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) never professed to be a theorist or philosopher of education and except for one specific work, The Universities and Education Today (1962), most of his reflections o
A Volksgemeinschaft of Passive Spectators
Possibly ever since Paul Hilberg’s seminal Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945 was published in 1992, the issue of passive bystanders in Nazi Germany has been debat
Roger Boscovich on Mind-Body Interaction and the Conservation of Momentum
The aim of this article is to fill a gap in the history and philosophy of the mind-body problem, which regularly discuss the contributions of Descartes and Leibniz, while the contribution of Roger Boscovich, a distinguished polymath and Jesuit priest—best known for his Theory of Natural Philosophy (1758)—has remained almost entirely unknown. Boscovich was a passionate advocate of free will and of Cartesian mind-body interactionist dualism, a posi…
Being in Being: Contesting the Ontopolitics of Indigeneity
This article critiques the shift towards valorizing indigeneity in western thought and contemporary practice. This shift in approach to indigenous ways of knowing and being, historically derided under conditions of colonialism, is a reflection of the ‘ontological turn’ in anthropology. Rather than indigenous peoples simply having an inferior or different understanding of the world to a modernist one, the ‘ontological turn’ suggests their importan…
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–2500 BC
Edited by David W. Anthony, with Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 254 pp. $49.95/£34.95 cloth. “Lost World” in the title of this handsome publication was apt to dr
What Carl Schmitt Picked Up in Weber's Seminar: A Historical Controversy Revisited
The intellectual relationship between Carl Schmitt and Max Weber has been a point of controversy for at least half a century. At the 1964 convention of the German Sociological Association, in honor of Weber's centenary, Schmitt was famously referred to as Weber's “legitimate student.” This article uses the chapter Schmitt specifically wrote for an edited volume in Weber's memory, published in 1923, as the starting point for juxtaposing the two sc…
Alexander von Humboldt's invention of the natural landscape
Landscape took on a new meaning through the new science of plant geography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1857). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, "landscape" was foremost a painterly genre. Slowly, painted landscapes came to bear on natural surroundings, but by 1800 it was still not common to designate sites as "landscapes." Humboldt looked at plant vegetation with a painterly gaze. Artists, according to him, could suggest in their w…
The Commemoration of Slavery in France and the Emergence of a Black Political Consciousness
The abolition of slavery after the Revolution of 1789 has always been hailed by the French secular State as proof of the progressivist nature of the Republic. Nevertheless, there has never been any attempt to seriously confront the French involvement in the trade of slaves, which lasted for two centuries. France, a colonial power until the 1960s, which still retains several overseas possessions with an Afro-Caribbean population, has a large resid…
Foucault, deleuze, and the ontology of networks
The concept of the network has become embedded in social thought and imagery, articulating what at root is inarticulable. The network metaphor occupies an ontological space, but this space, insofar as it is posed as a philosophical question, seems to assume a network-like shape itself. It may be particularly rewarding to read the constellations studied by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze from this point of view, in light of the analysis of the …
From Counterterrorism to Resilience
Since 9/11 the conceptualisation of terrorism and how governments should respond to the dangers it poses have undergone significant changes. This paper argues that the way in which terrorism is framed, academically and in policy terms, has significant implications for how counterterrorism strategies are developed and applied. It is asserted that the search for appropriate counterterrorism solutions has led to a new synthesis of several academic a…
Histoire et dialectique des idéologies et significations religieuses
The aim of this article is to consider the possibility of a new analytical methodology that could include multidisciplinary approaches into the study of religious ideologies and practices, taking benefit from historical and ethnographic interpretations, but also from linguistic and philological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, sociological, and anthropological considerations. If one tries to study the role or function played by religion in socie…
From Political Friendship to Befriending the World
Political friendship is typically portrayed as a dyadic relationship. In this traditional model, friendship is conceived as a positive intersubjective experience of relation-to-self and relation-to-other, assuming the reciprocity and equality characteristic of symmetrical relations of recognition. This essay explores an alternative, triadic model of political friendship suggested by the work of Hannah Arendt. Arendt makes the claim, at odds with …
Dwelling in Diaspora: Judith Butler's Post-secular Paradigm
This article aims to present Judith Butler's theory of diaspora as a theological paradigm for post-secular social existence. Her accounts of dispossession, statelessness, and exilic identity all afford us a normative challenge for how to think politics and the theological together. We begin by framing Judith Butler's diasporic theory of politics within Adriennes Rich's poetic perspective on ecstatic identity. We proceed to argue that by emphasizi…
Glocalization, Space, and Modernity 1
Eurocentric narratives fuse the spatial and temporal components of modernity by identifying "modernity" with a specific era in European history. By destabilizing spatial and temporal boundaries, glocalization leads to a reconsideration of modernity. In order to explore the interplay among glocalization, space, and modernity, I suggest a thematization of modernity in terms of form and content. In terms of form, modernity is globalized and this glo…
Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory." The European Legacy, 6(6), pp. 817–818
Nation-States, the Race-Religion Constellation, and Diasporic Political Communities: Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and Paul Gilroy
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The Language of Postwar Intellectual Schmittianism
The article analyzes the work of Hanno Kesting, Reinhart Koselleck, Roman Schnur, and Nicolaus Sombartfour young followers of Carl Schmitt in postwar Germany. Their intellectual Schmittianism was less than a full commitment to Schmitt's political positions, yet had more than an arbitrary similarity with them: it pertained to assumptions, categories, and modes of thought. Drawing on Pocock's terminology, I identify a particular language of intelle…
John Locke on Native Right, Colonial Possession, and the Concept ofVacuum domicilium
The early paragraphs of John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1690) describe a poetic idyll of property acquisition widely supposed by contemporary theorists and historians to have cast the template for imperial possessions in the New World. This reading ignores the surprises lurking in Locke’s later chapters on conquest, usurpation, and tyranny, where he affirms that native rights to lands and possessions survive to succeeding generations.…
A Difference in Kind? Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on Post-secularism
In this essay I examine the debate between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the post-secular state. I argue that, although their views on the relation of religion and politics converge in certain respects, a profound difference remains between their overall approaches. Their disagreement on the epistemic status of religious as opposed to secular moral reasons, and on the role religious arguments can play in the public sphere testify to a dee…
Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka assert that animal advocacy has hit “roadblocks to progressive change” (1) due to inadequate “moral frameworks: a ‘welfarist’ approach, an ‘ecological’ approach, and
Reasons of the Heart: Weber and Arendt on Emotion in Politics
In many fields of contemporary thought and scholarship, the classical construct of a clean division between “emotion” and “reason” has been revised. As a result, politics is no longer seen as a sphere in need of protection against the dark forces of emotion that might creep in where they do not belong. Against the backdrop of this conceptual shift the article examines the theme of emotion in the political thought of Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. T…
They Themselves Contribute to Their Misery by Their Sloth: The Justification of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Travel Narratives
In 1677, France took the slave trading island of Gorée located off the coast of Senegal from the Dutch and, less than a decade later, drafted Le Code Noir (1685) to formally provide regulations for slave owning practices. This document—created in response to the rapid expansion of the slave economy in French Caribbean possessions made possible by France's position in West Africa—marked the beginning of French involvement in the slave trade. The c…
Religion, politics and socio-cultural change in twentieth-century ireland
The Catholic Church assumed vast power and influence in early twentieth century Ireland based on political, social and religious developments in the course of the nineteenth century. The first Irish governments under Costello and de Valera were deferential in relation to the power and place of the Catholic Church in Irish life. The 1950s represented the final phase of the dominance of the Catholic Church. Since then, a wide variety of influences …
The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History
This reissued volume by Isaiah Berlin, originally published in 1996, comprises primarily essays from the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s concerning political themes such as government repress
Anarchism, Modernism, and Nationalism: Futurism's French Connections, 1876-1915
This article examines two of the most significant Italian political movements at the turn of the twentieth century—anarchism and Futurism. Although these movements shared a common vocabulary and rhetoric, they contrasted sharply in their aims and objectives. I address three interrelated questions: How were these movements and their ideologies related to, and perceived by, the ruling elites? What were their mutual influences and inspirational cent…
Making the Desert Bloom: Hannah Arendt and Zionist Discourse
This article discusses an aspect of Hannah Arendt’s treatment of the conflict between the Zionists and the Palestinians that has thus far been overlooked in scholarship: her justification of Zionism through the achievements of the Jewish pioneers in cultivating the land, in contrast to the Palestinians’ failure to do so. The inability of natives to cultivate their land was a familiar argument in the history of colonialism, used to legitimize the …
Irony's Commitment: Rorty'sContingency, Irony, and Solidarity
With Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989) Richard Rorty tries to persuade us that a case for liberalism is better served by historical narrative than by philosophical theory. The liberal ironist is the complex protagonist of Rorty's anti-foundationalist story. Why does Rorty think irony serves-rather than undermines-commitments to liberal democracy? I distinguish political from existential dimensions of irony, consider criticisms of Rorty's …
Countryside-versus-City in European Thought: German and British Anti-Urbanism between the Wars
The idea that the city is a place of sin and immorality is as old as urban civilization. But what does anti-urban thought mean in societies which are highly urbanized under the conditions of modern industrialism? Furthermore, is anti-urbanism in the interwar period a German völkisch phenomenon––one further stride on Germany's special path? And what does rural revival and the “back-to-the-land” cult mean in Great Britain, the first industrial nati…
The first red stain of the revolution: Les sources du cinéma Anglo-saxon sur la révolution Française
Is later British idealist political theory fundamentally conservative?1
The real and the imaginary: Political discourse and gender in France during the occupation, 1940-1944
Modern science in India: A legacy of British imperialism
David hume: A modern conservative
(1996). David hume: A modern conservative. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 397-402
Religious denomination and national renaissance: The Transylvanian Romanians in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries
(1996). Religious denomination and national renaissance: The Transylvanian Romanians in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 756-761
The Nation-state, past and present
(1996). The Nation‐state, past and present. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 689-695
Privatization: The problem of ownership of Polish industry
(1996). Privatization: The problem of ownership of Polish industry. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 562-567
European union and the nation-state: The politics of hope encounters the politics of experience
Medieval hagiography and post-tridentine hagiology shaping Robertson Davies's own sense of the marvelous infifth business(1970)
(1996). Medieval hagiography and post‐tridentine hagiology shaping Robertson Davies's own sense of the marvelous in fifth business (1970) The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1153-1163
German paradigms and American cultural institutions: The mediation of German literature in new England
Christianity and western therapeutic culture
Gender representations and the representation of person
(1996). Gender representations and the representation of person. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 999-1003
Theater and film as a medium for presenting the experiences of Shoah Survivors today
Slavery and ideologies of womanhood in antebellum America
(1996). Slavery and ideologies of womanhood in antebellum America. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1010-1016
Sociology: Reproduction or destruction of Androcentrism
(1996). Sociology: Reproduction or destruction of Androcentrism. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 937-942
Edith stein on woman: Her approach through literature
Broadened horizons
Sparagmos as gest in Brecht'sMother Courage
Petrushevskaya and women's prose: Barometers of cultural (dis)integration
(1996). Petrushevskaya and women's prose: Barometers of cultural (dis)integration. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1579-1584
Culture-Kultur-Kultura
What is political correctness? Shifting understandings as the media define a new ideology
Running against the boundaries: Kafka and Wittgenstein
Religion and science: The Nietzschean version
(1996). Religion and science: The Nietzschean version. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Science and Religion in Modern Western Thought, pp. 1740-1751
Conjecture, acquiescence, and John Millar's history of Ireland