Intellectual History of the Enlightenment
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The College of New Jersey (which later became Princeton University) provides an example of how Scottish philosophy influenced American higher education in an institutional context during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This... more
During a transitional period of Scottish history, responses to the French Revolution in the 1790s significantly affected Enlightenment intellectual culture across Scotland and, in particular, its existence in Edinburgh. The emergence of... more
Published in JEGP, 2003, Special Issue on the German Late Enlightenment.
Josephinism is a mixed blessing: Beacon of hope and unforgivable pitfall, the rational reform of the Habsburg realms was seen as the Empire's last genuine chance of survival as well as the seed of its destruction by nineteenth-century... more
This study complicates one part of the scholarly legend that Gottlob Christian Storr infused the Kantian letter with an Orthodox spirit. In §§17-18 of his DC, Storr positions Immanuel Kant’s physico-theological and moral arguments for... more
The current pre-dominant scientific paradigm connects the French Revolution with the radical Enlightenment initiated by Spinoza. Democratic republicanism, fostered by Spinoza in opposition to aristocratic-oligarchic republicanism,... more
"El Sistema Colonial Develado" de Jean Louis Vastey. Muy feliz de anunciarles que ya esta en la calle la primera traducción al castellano de "Le Système Colonial Dévoilé" (1814) la obra cumbre de Jean Louis Vastey el intelectual más... more
Whose Middle Ages: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past, edited by Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019), 94–103.
The academic commemoration of Philip Melanchthon, humanist, reformer and 'teacher of Germany' (praeceptor Germaniae), occurred for the first time on a large scale in 1760, the two-hundredth anniversary of his death. This article offers a... more
El volumen "España y el continente americano en el siglo XVIII" es la edición de los trabajos presentados en el VI Congreso de la SEESXVIII y es publicado por Ediciones Trea, que ya acoge un nutrido catálogo de títulos de referencia sobre... more
En 2014, el Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII conmemoró los 250 años del fallecimiento de Benito Jerónimo Feijoo con el congreso "Con la razón y la experiencia: Feijoo 250 años después". El resultado de dicha reunión académica... more