@thomaslalevee.bsky.social
Researcher at ANU, based in Melbourne. Working on a book on early French social science. Gustave Gimon Fellow in Political Economy at Stanford (2024-25) https://anu-au.academia.edu/ThomasLalevee
New issue of EJHET just published - including my review of the first full edition of Saint-Simon's correspondence (1782-1825)
Congratulations. Look forward to reading it!
Very pleased to announce that, as of April next year, I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at UNSW - and working on my new project:
"Medical Utopias in the French and Anglophone Worlds, c. 1840-1890"
Review of Saint-Simon’s recently published Correspondence by @thomaslalevee.bsky.social. The work being reviewed was edited by Pierre Musso, who is probably the leading Saint-Simon scholar today.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GT7XF...
The whole point of Dawn of Everything is that no 1 thing predetermines how human society is organised or structured & we have a much greater degree of agency to create different ways of living/being - at least more than traditional social science (and grifters like Harare) would have us assume
One Host Theory
Great roundtable review on After Kant in @HDiplo - with contributions from M. C. Behrent, A. Jainchill & Eva Piirimäe & a reply by M. Sonenscher
Sonenscher: “Events begin and end, but ideas have fuzzier or more porous boundaries.”
issforum.org/roundtables/...
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
In my forthcoming but so far only half written book…!
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.
Thanks @tomaashby.bsky.social
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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A new ideas podcast is coming!
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Thoughtful and moving from Chelsea Wallis
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...
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
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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"
events.stanford.edu/event/thomas...
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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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www.academia.edu/128955801/Th...
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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...
FYI @mattpolprof.bsky.social
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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