Thomas Lalevée

Cambridge methodology primer:
“One of my aims in writing about the long debate over how to think about the concept of civil liberty was to ask whether those who eventually lost the battle may nevertheless have won the argument. To change the metaphor, I have been in quest of buried treasure.”

This looks fascinating.

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#1 Richard Whatmore, can Intellectual History save liberty? Podcast Episode · Roots and Branches · 01/07/2025 · 1 sec

First episode with Richard Whatmore: “Can intellectual history save liberty?”

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New review of Michael Sonenscher’s Capitalism contains this absolute gem

(That the review is by an economist makes the claim even more farcical)

www.independent.org/tir/2025-sum...

Thanks Cayce! Full text also available here: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/e67128...

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Coming soon! Roots and Branches - the new ideas podcast from the @StAndrewsIIH at the @univofstandrews

A new ideas podcast is coming!

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Thoughtful and moving from Chelsea Wallis

Alasdair MacIntyre This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinki...

For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English)

undpress.nd.edu/978026820325...

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Happy book birthday!!

Today!

Didn’t quite expect this - but Richard Whatmore’s reply includes an usually candid discussion of Istvan Hont, post-colonial studies and neo-Marxist historiographies

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Link to my talk next week at the Stanford Green library:

"Before Durkheim: Early French Social Science and the Politics of Progress"

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The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, by Matthew McManus in Global Intellectual History (2025) Liberalism and socialism are usually taken to be ideological foes. Each associated with a different intellectual canon and a set of distinct and, at times, virulently antagonistic evangelists, these t...

Post-print and free to read copy of my review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (2025) by Matthew McManus

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Just saw this - will read with interest!

See Pickering book on Comte and her article on Comte and the Saint-Simonians, if you haven’t already :)

Mary Pickering has done some great work on the fallout between Saint-Simon and Comte. After SS’s death, there was a short period when it looked like Comte might become the leader of the movement, but he had a mental crisis in the late 1820s, during which time Bazard & Enfantin rose to influence

Here is a link to a free copy of the review (for the first 50 users):

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D2QRN...

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Appreciate this thoughtful review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" by @thomaslalevee.bsky.social. Appreciate being called a "generous and conscientious" scholar.

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The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)

My review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism is out in Global Intellectual History - with some thoughts at the end on what a more contextual approach might bring to our understanding of this political tradition

doi.org/10.1080/2380...

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Beginnings are always the hardest the part, at least for me

Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare This open access book examines disenfranchisement in liberal democracies worldwide, before and after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage.

Nice to see Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare: Conditional Citizenship in Historical Perspective online and open access. @fia-c-s.bsky.social and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir are model academics who organised a generative workshop from which these papers emerged: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🗃️

Short extract from my recent review of Enlightenment Biopolitics
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That’s very generous - thank you. I am currently working on a book in this subject, focused on the history of early French social science. I have an article on part of my research into this in MIH, if this is of interest to you

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Enlightenment Biopolitics: a History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens Published in Intellectual History Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Just published - my review of “Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens” by William Max Nelson

doi.org/10.1080/1749...

Fair point - my own view is probably skewed by my focus on those who sought to construct a “science” of politics in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Thanks for the clarification