Thomas Lalevée
@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
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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...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GT7XF...
Henri Saint-Simon. Correspondance (1782–1825)
Published in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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...
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
Also my understanding is that the Graeber book is pretty good? I know academics have criticisms but I haven't seen anything like the critiques of Harari or Diamond, where the entire premise of entire chapters is laughably false.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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
some professional news: due to various insensitive comments made in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, I have fired @michaelhobbes.bsky.social from the If Books Could Kill podcast. the show will continue as usual, with me playing the role of both michael and peter
September 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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.”
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Sonenscher: “Events begin and end, but ideas have fuzzier or more porous boundaries.”
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H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-50 on Sonenscher, After Kant
28 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-50 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Michael Behrent Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…
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September 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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
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…!
And though Durkheim considered Saint-Simon & Comte his precursors when he institutionalized sociology in France, as @thomaslalevee.bsky.social shows, he essentially whitewashed the rest of sociology’s turbulent 19th century history in order to provide a legitimatized conception of sociology’s roots.
August 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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.”
“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.”
1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) & @tomaashby.bsky.social (@utokyoofficial.bsky.social), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first at GIH! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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.”
“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.”
1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) & @tomaashby.bsky.social (@utokyoofficial.bsky.social), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first at GIH! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
First episode with Richard Whatmore: “Can intellectual history save liberty?”
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#1 Richard Whatmore, can Intellectual History save liberty?
Podcast Episode · Roots and Branches · 01/07/2025 · 1 sec
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July 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
First episode with Richard Whatmore: “Can intellectual history save liberty?”
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June 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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...
(That the review is by an economist makes the claim even more farcical)
www.independent.org/tir/2025-sum...
June 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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...
(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...
June 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Thanks Cayce! Full text also available here: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/e67128...
May 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
May 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
May 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Thoughtful and moving from Chelsea Wallis
Even ostensibly ‘inclusive’ schooling is often profoundly exclusionary towards neurodivergent learners. Is there another way?
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May 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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...
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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...
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May 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
undpress.nd.edu/978026820325...
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
Happy book birthday!!
May 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Happy book birthday!!
Today!
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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"Before Durkheim: Early French Social Science and the Politics of Progress"
events.stanford.edu/event/thomas...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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May 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0191...
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0191...
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...
@stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
"Before Durkheim: Early French Social Science and the Politics of Progress"
events.stanford.edu/event/thomas...
@stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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...
@stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
"Before Durkheim: Early French Social Science and the Politics of Progress"
events.stanford.edu/event/thomas...
@stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
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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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...
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April 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Post-print and free to read copy of my review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (2025) by Matthew McManus
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
www.academia.edu/128955801/Th...
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
www.academia.edu/128955801/Th...
Hello California 👋
April 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hello California 👋
Just saw this - will read with interest!
April 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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 :)
April 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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
April 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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