Passions, politics and the limits of society. / Heikki Haara, Koen Stapelbroek, Mikko Immanen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Immanen, Mikko, 1982- editor.

Stapelbroek, Koen, editor.

Haara, Heikki, editor.

Series:

Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The 1st part of the volume engages with the theme of inclusion and exclusion in the history of ideas from different perspectives. The 2nd part of the volume discusses debates on natural law, human nature and political economy in early-modern Europe. Its contributions explore the sorts of political and moral visions that were relevant in post-Hobbesian moral philosophy and the development of economic thought.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Intellectual History and Helsinki: Editorial Introduction

1 The State of Intellectual History: Local and Global

2 Inventing “Humanity”: Early-Modern Perspectives

3 Human Rights and their Realisation in the World: Herder’s Debate with Kant

4 Pierre Gassendi and the Humanist Case for a Vegetarian Diet

5 Enlightenment Historical Writing and the Expulsion of England’s Jews

6 The Encyclopedism of the Russian Enlightenment in the History of Ideas

7 David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and the Possibility of an Inclusive Moral Dialogue

8 Neither Citizens nor Slaves: The Aporetic Condition of Modern Citizenship

Preface: Kari Saastamoinen – An Appreciation

9 The Problem of Sociability after Hobbes: Pufendorf and Locke on the Politics of Recognition

10 Pierre Nicole and amour-propre

11 Hutcheson’s Ambivalence about the Passions: Must Virtue and Fittingness Come Apart?

12 Pufendorf’s Sociability in (Italian) Translation

13 Rethinking the Pursuit of Happiness – Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi’s Critique of Paternal Rule

14 An Empire of Renewed Ambitions: Political Economy and National Character in the Travels (1782) of William Macintosh

15 How Ideology Became Isms: A History of a Conceptual Coupling

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-067986-8

OCLC:

1191863635