New Article: Le Barbier’s Representation of the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen

https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/potestas/article/view/7824 I am very proud of my new article published by Potestas: 'Liberté, Légalité, Souveraineté: Changing Meanings of an Allegory in Le Barbier’s Representations of the Déclaration des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen'. I have been working on it every since winning a small grant generously offered by the University of Halle-Wittenberg's Interdisciplinary Centre... Continue Reading →

1 February 2024 0

Article now in print: The First Book in French on Cosmopolitanism by Joseph Honoré Rémi

My latest #article on the first book in #French about #cosmopolitanism with the word "#cosmopolisme" in its title is now in available in print. It was a paper for a #conference on #privacy organised by @privacy_ku The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémi

21 August 2023 0

JHI Blog post on 18th-century French Cosmopolitanism

https://jhiblog.org/2023/02/20/cosmopolitanism-in-eighteenth-century-france/ My post for JHI blog has just been published! Credit: An extremely detailed survey of the activities surrounding the building of the tower of Babel. Engraving, c. 1680. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark

21 February 2023 0

Invited Lecture on the First Book on Cosmopolitanism

https://youtu.be/NxpMxccfrQ0 The Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Honoré Rémy On 29 May 2022, I was invited to give a lecture on my article in Early Modern French Studies, 'Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy'. I am very thankful to the organisers at the Open Lectures on Freemasonry. Check their other... Continue Reading →

5 June 2022 0

My PhD won De Gruyter’s 10th Anniversary OA Competition

Press Release 10 years of Open Access Books at De Gruyter – 10 Winning Titles! Winning titles of De Gruyter’s Open Access Book Anniversary competition announced Berlin, 27 September 2021 In late 2020, De Gruyter celebrated its 10th open access book anniversary with a call for book proposals and invited scientists and scholars globally to submit... Continue Reading →

14 October 2021 0

What's privacy got to do with moral philosophy? I'm glad you asked. An answer is in my new post on the Centre for Privacy Studies blog.

Privacy and moral philosophy

21 February 2020 0

Mortier — Le rêve universaliste de l’orateur du genre humain

Mortier, R. (2000). Le rêve universaliste de l'"Orateur du Genre humain". In R. Mortier, Les Combats des Lumières (pp. 385-394). Paris: Aux amateurs de livres international. The Universalist idea was not something new or invented in the eighteenth century. However, the transformation of the feeling of being human into concrete political and social systems is... Continue Reading →

18 November 2008 0

Fink, Gonthier Louis — “Cosmopolitisme” in Dictionnaire européen des lumières

Work Cited Fink, Gonthier Louis (1997) “Cosmopolitisme.” In Dictionnaire européen des lumières, edited by Michel Delon, 277-279. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. « Le XVIIIe siècle est le siècle du cosmopolitisme » (L. Réau). (277) « En 1690, le Dictionnaire universel de Furetière, qui ne connaît pas encore le terme « cosmopolite », le définit indirectement à l’article... Continue Reading →

17 November 2008 1

O’Brien, Karen — Narratives of Enlightenment

Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history Cosmopolitan history: “‘Cosmopolitanism’ is no longer a term much favoured by intellectual historians: as an idea, it seems to lack intellectual content; as a category of political thought, it has no referent. [footnote: “the last investigation of this idea was Thomas J. Schlereth]. The term is occasionally invoked by literary and... Continue Reading →

14 November 2008 0

Dédéyan: le cosmopolitisme européen sous la révolution et l’empire

Dédéyan, Charles (1976) Le cosmopolitisme européen sous la Révolution et l’Empire. 2 vols. Paris: Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur. One of the rare books of intellectual history about cosmopolitanism in Europe. Written in French, it is focusing on the periods immediately after the Enlightenment: the French Revolution and the first Empire under Napoléon Bonaparte. It is... Continue Reading →

10 November 2008 0

Schlereth: The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightenment Thought

Schlereth, Thomas (1977) The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightenment Thought: Its Form and Function in the Ideas of Franklin, Hume, and Voltaire, 1694-1790. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Thomas J. Schlereth studied how the cosmopolitan ideal had a “noticeable impact on Enlightenment intellectual life throughout the trans-Atlantic community”.[1] But Schlereth does not advance that... Continue Reading →

3 November 2008 5

Rousseau et le paradoxe d’une pensée cosmopolitique anti-cosmopolite

Dans la pensée de Rousseau, il y a un paradoxe sur lequel on se penche de plus en plus. Une certaine acrimonie face aux cosmopolites, alors que Rousseau exprime une pensée cosmopolitique en reprenant le grand projet de Saint-Pierre d'une paix universelle et perpétuelle. Projet raillé par un truculent Voltaire il est vrai, dans son... Continue Reading →

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