- Department of History,
Humanities 007
University of Warwick
Coventry
Mark Philp
University of Warwick, History, Faculty Member
The Diary of Sharon Turner 1793-5 is a record, part memoir, part history, written by the lawyer and historian Sharon Turner (1768-1847) covering what he clearly came to see as the turning point in his life and in the life of the country... more
The Diary of Sharon Turner 1793-5 is a record, part memoir, part history, written by the lawyer and historian Sharon Turner (1768-1847) covering what he clearly came to see as the turning point in his life and in the life of the country and of Europe more widely. It describes his courtship of Mary Watts, the daughter of William Watts, a landscape painter with strong sympathies with the French Revolution, against the background of increasing turmoil in France and throughout Europe, and with growing concern about the measures taken against English reformers by the British government. The result is a distinctive portrait of life in Britain at the time of the French Revolution presented through the account of a courtship that goes dramatically awry.
Edited and introduced by: Mark Philp, Professor of History and Politics, Department of History, University of Warwick and Clare Clarke, History, Warwick, 2014-17.
The transcription and editing of the Diary was supported by the University of Warwick’s Undergraduate Research Studentship Scheme in the summers of 2015 and 2016).
The digital edition of the Diary can be accessed through the following link:
https://publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uwp/catalog/view/30/25/110
Edited and introduced by: Mark Philp, Professor of History and Politics, Department of History, University of Warwick and Clare Clarke, History, Warwick, 2014-17.
The transcription and editing of the Diary was supported by the University of Warwick’s Undergraduate Research Studentship Scheme in the summers of 2015 and 2016).
The digital edition of the Diary can be accessed through the following link:
https://publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uwp/catalog/view/30/25/110
World Classics edition of Mill's Autobiography, with introduction, chrobnology, bibliography, and selections from variants.
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Essays on historical and philosophical themes linked to the history of utilitarianism.
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The second collection of papers by a range of authors on the way in which ideas of democracy evolved in different national contexts, forcussing on Southern Europe and more widely in the shores of the Mediterranean.
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The book explores the distinctive character of the radical literary culture of the 1790s and reveals a set of tensions between the radicals' deliberative aspirations and the conventions and practices in which their own conduct remained... more
The book explores the distinctive character of the radical literary culture of the 1790s and reveals a set of tensions between the radicals' deliberative aspirations and the conventions and practices in which their own conduct remained embedded. This chapter explores, in particular, the evidence for radical circles of literary women in this period.
... institutions, to Iain Mc-Calman for arranging these opportunities, and to Heather McCalman, Jon Mee, and Martin Fitzpatrick for their ... Jarvis, Des King, Chris Kraus, Gordon MacPherson, David Miller, Teresa Morgan, Joseph Nye, Alan... more
... institutions, to Iain Mc-Calman for arranging these opportunities, and to Heather McCalman, Jon Mee, and Martin Fitzpatrick for their ... Jarvis, Des King, Chris Kraus, Gordon MacPherson, David Miller, Teresa Morgan, Joseph Nye, Alan Patten, Philip Pettit, Quentin Reed, Elvira ...
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 10 jours). ... Introduction. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau: Introductory Lecture. Part One: Machiavelli. 1. The Morally Neutral Political Scientist. 2. Virtue and the... more
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 10 jours). ... Introduction. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau: Introductory Lecture. Part One: Machiavelli. 1. The Morally Neutral Political Scientist. 2. Virtue and the Double Standard. 3. Republics and Freedom. 4. Machiavelli: ...
... cause, the incitement of loyalist sentiment through caricature, newspapers, tracts and broadsides, and loyalist ... and the Bodleian for help in securing reproduction rights for the caricatures reproduced here. \i ... taxation, the... more
... cause, the incitement of loyalist sentiment through caricature, newspapers, tracts and broadsides, and loyalist ... and the Bodleian for help in securing reproduction rights for the caricatures reproduced here. \i ... taxation, the brutal tactics of recruitment used by both the Navy and the ...
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Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures-people whose... more
Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures-people whose influence and importance have stood the ...
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Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and... more
Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy.
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<jats:p>William Godwin is considered the founder of philosophical anarchism. His An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) contends that although government is a corrupt force in society, perpetuating dependence and ignorance,... more
<jats:p>William Godwin is considered the founder of philosophical anarchism. His An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) contends that although government is a corrupt force in society, perpetuating dependence and ignorance, it will increasingly be rendered impotent by the gradual spread of knowledge. Politics will be displaced by an enlarged morality as truth conquers error and mind subordinates matter. He predicts the end to cooperative activities (which restrain individual freedom), the abandonment of marriage and private property, and increasing longevity and ultimate immortality.</jats:p> <jats:p>Godwin's moral theory is often described as utilitarian, but he understands pleasure to be inseparable from the development of truth and wisdom through the full and free exercise of private judgment and public discussion. As such, his position is better understood as perfectionist.</jats:p>
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<jats:p>Corruption denotes decay or perversion. The term implies that there is a natural or normal standard of functioning or conduct from which the corrupt state of affairs or action deviates. When we talk of a person becoming... more
<jats:p>Corruption denotes decay or perversion. The term implies that there is a natural or normal standard of functioning or conduct from which the corrupt state of affairs or action deviates. When we talk of a person becoming corrupt, we mean not just that they have broken a rule, but that the basic norms of ethical conduct no longer have any force for them. Corruption strikes at the root of a thing.</jats:p> <jats:p>Political corruption involves the decay or perversion of political rule. Broadly, this occurs when a group or individual subverts a society's publicly endorsed practices for conciliating conflicts and pursuing the common good so as to gain illegitimate advantage for their interests in the political process. The precise specification of the nature and dynamics of corruption is inherently controversial. Classical accounts associate it with a collapse of civic virtue and the eventual destruction of the state. Modern theories focus more narrowly on the misuse of public office for private gain.</jats:p>
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What should political theory aim to achieve? Mark Philp writes on the emergence of ‘realism’ in political theory and philosophy. While political philosophy has often been dominated by abstract normative debates of the kind epitomised by... more
What should political theory aim to achieve? Mark Philp writes on the emergence of ‘realism’ in political theory and philosophy. While political philosophy has often been dominated by abstract normative debates of the kind epitomised by John Rawls, realism is based on the principle of determining how we should act in less than ideal circumstances. Outlining the main features of political realism, he notes that its growing prominence in debates partly reflects frustration with the intellectually indulgent approach of some political philosophers.
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Mediterranean states are often thought to have ‘democratized’ only in the post-war era, as authoritarian regimes were successively overthrown. On its eastern and southern shores, the process is still contested. This book looks back to an... more
Mediterranean states are often thought to have ‘democratized’ only in the post-war era, as authoritarian regimes were successively overthrown. On its eastern and southern shores, the process is still contested. This book looks back to an earlier era, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when talk about establishing some modern version of ‘democracy’ in the region first began. By the 1860s, representative regimes had been established throughout southern Europe, and representation was also the subject of experiment and debate in Ottoman territories. Talk about democracy, its merits and limitations, accompanied much of this experimentation—though there was no agreement as to whether or how it could be given stable political form. This book assembles experts in the history of the region, who have been exploring these themes collaboratively, to compare and contrast Mediterranean experiences, so that they can be set alongside better-known debates and experiments in North At...
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How does Dickens understand the events of the French Revolution? Given that the events are so much contested ground, such that what happens, and how and why it happens, are melded into often starkly contrasting and deeply ideologically... more
How does Dickens understand the events of the French Revolution? Given that the events are so much contested ground, such that what happens, and how and why it happens, are melded into often starkly contrasting and deeply ideologically inflected interpretations of the period, we should not think that Dickens’s position is likely to be either simple or naive.
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Acknowledgements Introduction The Curzon Collection and its Creators The Contrast Invasion! Invasion Machines Divisions in Wartime The Great Fear in 1798 The Peace of Amiens - and Resumption of War Preparing to Defend John Bull Guarding... more
Acknowledgements Introduction The Curzon Collection and its Creators The Contrast Invasion! Invasion Machines Divisions in Wartime The Great Fear in 1798 The Peace of Amiens - and Resumption of War Preparing to Defend John Bull Guarding the Toy Shop The Invasion Threat, 1803 Defenders of Britain Gulliver Imagining 'La Descente en Angleterre' Loyalism in Print Napoleon's Career -Ambition -Reputation -Frustration Caricaturists Return to Satire Napoleon in British Memory Further Reading Notes
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A summary, review and critique of research on physically disabled children and the social and emotional difficulties which they and their families face.
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While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to a radical intellectual culture. Drawing on both original material and a range of interdisciplinary insights, Radical Conduct... more
While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to a radical intellectual culture. Drawing on both original material and a range of interdisciplinary insights, Radical Conduct transforms our understanding of the literary radicalism of London at the time of the French Revolution. It offers new accounts of people's understanding of and relationship to politics, their sense of the boundaries of privacy, their practices of sociability, friendship, gossip and discussion, the relations between radical men and women, and their location in a wider world of sound and movement in the period. It reveals a series of tensions between many radicals' deliberative practices and aspirations and the conventions and practices in which their behaviour remained embedded. Exploring these relationships and pressures reveals the fractured world of London society and politics, dramatically illuminating both the changing fortunes of radic...
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The frequent references to the actors and events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in the titles of the dance tunes of the period raise the question of how we should understand their significance. This article argues that... more
The frequent references to the actors and events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in the titles of the dance tunes of the period raise the question of how we should understand their significance. This article argues that the practice is one of a number of examples of music and song shaping people's lived experience and behavior in ways that were rarely fully conscious. Drawing on a range of music collections, diaries, and journals, the article argues that we need to recognize how significant aural dimensions were in shaping people's predisposition to favor the status quo in this period of heightened political controversy.
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A discssion of Corruption and Democracy in Africa
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Starting with a particular case of familial care for the aging, the discussion points to the difficulties in deriving practical judgments from ideal theory in cases where there seems to be injustice, but where there are multiple competing... more
Starting with a particular case of familial care for the aging, the discussion points to the difficulties in deriving practical judgments from ideal theory in cases where there seems to be injustice, but where there are multiple competing dimensions of value and cost. The essay argues that the problems discussed are deeply embedded in modern western cultures, where life expectancy has risen dramatically and has been coupled with a range of other social and demographic changes that make familial care for the aged difficult and burdensome, and where our thinking about justice and rights are integral to the conflicted ways in which people construct and experience these situations, rather than standing independently as a solution to them. The essay argues for a set of partial, limited, and "realist" responses that reduce some elements of burden, without pretending to provide a solution that is in any sense ideal or wholly just. The argument from a case is integral to the essay's case for realism in moral and political philosophy.
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The paper challenges conceptions of political corruption that rely on standards external to politics and explores an understanding of corruption as something that is part of the internal policing of politics. The paper shows that recent... more
The paper challenges conceptions of political corruption that rely on standards external to politics and explores an understanding of corruption as something that is part of the internal policing of politics. The paper shows that recent conceptions of corruption have highly attenuated understandings of 'politics' and are over expansive in their normative commitments.