Crisis and renewal in the history of European political thought / edited by Cesare Cuttica and Laszlo Kontler ; with Clara Maier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuttica, Cesare, editor.

Kontler, László, editor.

Maier, Clara, contributor.

Series:

History of European political and constitutional thought ; Volume 4.

History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crisis management in government--Europe.

Crisis management in government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

This volume explores the complex theme of crisis in European political thought from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It investigates the innovations in political thought that sprang from crisis, as well as the conceptual challenges thinkers faced when dealing with the devastation wrought by spiritual, economic and political crises. In so doing, Crisis and Renewal also examines the ways in which crisis often became the site of renewal. As an object of theoretical reflection, and as a pivotal element of our vocabulary, the notion of crisis is often applied, indiscriminately and without clarity, to a huge variety of domains.This volume provides a historically informed analysis of what it means to reflect on and theorise about crisis. Contributors are: Erica Benner, Niall Bond, Nathaniel Boyd, Andrea Catanzaro, Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, Alberto Clerici, Cesare Cuttica, Annalisa Furia, George Gallwey, Kai Gräf, Ferenc Hörcher, Paschalis M. Kitromilides, László Kontler, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Clara Maier, Janine Murphy, Adrian O'Connor, and Mark Somos.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Cesare Cuttica, László Kontler and Clara Maier

PART 1

Conceptualising Crisis

1 What Does κρίσις Entail? The Problem of 'Decision and/or Judgement' in Plato's Republic and Laws

Andrea Catanzaro

2 Critique and Crisis in Context: Rereading Reinhart Koselleck's Interpretation of the Enlightenment

Kai Gräf

PART 2

Critical Moments

3 Crisis as a Motivation for Innovative Reflection in Ancient and Modern Political Thought

Paschalis M. Kitromilides

4 Pathologies of Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Athens and Florence

Erica Benner

5 Democracy and Crisis in the 1640s in England: The Ochlocratic Moment

Cesare Cuttica

6 The Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy and the Renewal of the Foundations of Early-Modern Neapolitan Political Thought: The Nation as a New Political Actor

Adriana Luna-Fabritius

7 From Regeneration to Resignation: "Crisis" and Crises in Revolutionary France

Adrian O'Connor

8 Treating Revolutionary Sickness. Crisis and the Formative Years of German Liberalism (1834-1866)

Janine T. Murphy

PART 3

Escaping Crisis

9 Houses Without Cities: The Dialectic of Political Crisis and Familial Resilience

Mark Somos

10 Overcoming a Crisis in an Early Modern Urban Context. Althusius on Concord and Prudence

Ferenc Hörcher

11 Alexander Hamilton on Crises of Sovereignty and the Oeconomy of Public Credit (1775-1791)

George Gallwey

PART 4

Crisis and Thinkers

12 In publicis malis. Justus Lipsius and the 'Double Face' of Neostoicism in the European Wars of Religion

Alberto Clerici

13 The Constitution of Crisis: Politics, Decline and Decision in Hegel's Verfassungsschrift

Nathaniel Boyd

14 Philosophies of History as Responses to Crises: Ferdinand Tönnies'

Community and Society

Niall Bond

15 Crisis and Vulnerability in Hannah Arendt's Political Thought: Political Action, Judgment and the Figure of the 'Conscious Pariah'

Annalisa Furia

16 Civilisations and Political Elites in Critical Times: The Perspectives of Arnold J. Toynbee and Samuel P. Huntington

Patricia Chiantera-Stutte

Index.

Notes:

This volume is based on a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Conference organised by the European Society for the History of Political Thought which took place at the University of Heidelberg from October 11-13, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46687-8

OCLC:

1255520431

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004466876 DOI