19 hours ago by Amélie PINSET

Introduction Né dans les années 70 sous l’impulsion des travaux de John Pocock puis de Quentin Skinner, le néo-républicanisme s’est d’abord constitué par la remise en cause de l’historiographie dominante de la pensée politique moderne, c’est-à-dire celle qui identifiait la pensée politique moderne à ...

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15 days ago by Pavarini

João Pereira Coutinho, na Folha de S.Paulo No outono de 2001, cheguei à Universidade de Oxford para fazer pesquisas sobre o meu tema de doutorado. Instalei-me no colégio (o St. Antony’s) e depois fui falar com o meu supervisor, Henry Hardy, então “fellow” de um outro colégio (o Wolfson; nenhum deles ...

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39 days ago by Ole Martin Skilleås

Nå er det høysesong for prediksjoner (eller "spådommer") om hva som vil skje i 2012. Det vi kan si sikkert om disse prediksjonene er at ingen har peiling - heller ikke jeg. Det vi videre kan si er at jo mer en person vet om et fenomen jo større sjanse er det for at vedkommende feiler. Philip Tetlock ...

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40 days ago by chr1

Full piece here. The old liberal vs libertarian battle rehashed…link sent in by a reader: Isaiah Berlin’s “ Two Concepts Of Liberty” found here. According to Monbiot, libertarian conservatives in Britain (and I presume America) have turned “freedom into tyranny.” He uses Isaiah Berlin’s definition o ...

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45 days ago by Coach Tully

The other day I read a Twitter profile that went like this: “Strong opinions. Good listener.” It made me think. Is such a thing possible? How about you? Do you think those two qualities can exist side by side in a person? Can you really care, at the same time, about what YOU think and what OTHERS th ...

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59 days ago by Theo Jung

An article I wrote on the concept of Counter-Enlightenment has been published in the proceedings of a conference I attended last year in Bern, Switzerland. My contribution takes its starting point from the observation that a large part of the debate about the meaning(s) of Enlightenment in the prese ...

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61 days ago by Stephen Smoliar

After reading Hugo Slim’s review for the London Telegraph of Steven Pinker’s new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes, I am not sure I really want to slog through all 802 pages of the book itself. Having read some of Pinker’s work and having heard h ...

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68 days ago by sottoosservazione

Anna Achmatova, una delle voci più importanti della poesia russa del Novecento (1889 -1966) I ricordi di Isaiah Berlin, gli incontri di Tamara de Lempicka, la Achmatova a Taormina Alberto Arbasino per “ Il Corriere della Sera“ Ancora su quell’isola già leggendaria. Da raccomandare ai nostri migliori ...

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68 days ago by We are not the beautiful

Review of The Return of the Public by Dan Hind Part Two On the day of his execution during the English Civil War, King Charles I expressed his essential political philosophy. Freedom, he said, consists of the state protecting life and property. It is nothing to do with anything so presumptuous as ev ...

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79 days ago by G.

“…Schopenhauer, la cui visione dell’uomo è quella di un essere che, aggrappato a una fragile barchetta, si trova gettato nell’immenso oceano della volontà che non ha scopo, non ha fine nè direzione, al quale l’uomo può resistere soltanto a suo rischio e pericolo, e con il quale può venire a patti so ...

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