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Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 1d
Some Uneasy Thoughts on Foucault and Machiavelli
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Some Uneasy Thoughts on Foucault and Machiavelli
Foucault introduces the art of government as a theme on 1 February 1978, which is the fourth lecture at Collège de France of the series translated as Security, Territory, and Population. After discuss...
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 1d
Friends in Cambridge.. Next Tuesday I'm returning to Trinity to lecture for the first time since 1986! All welcome!
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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · 1d
Welcome to Michaelmas Term!

Details of this term's #MondaySeminar are now available.

We kick off on 13th October with Duncan Kelly presenting his paper on "Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c. 1848-1914", with a comment from Fernanda Gallo.
Michaelmas | Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Michaelmas Term Research Seminar Series 1: Research Seminar Series 2: 13 October: Title: Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c.
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 5d
Another excellent piece by Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social 👇 www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...
The erasure of women philosophers
Eileen O’Neill’s foundational article “Disappearing Ink: Early modern women philosophers and their fate in history” (1998) was revelatory for me as a
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Davide Cadeddu @davidecadeddu.bsky.social · 4d
The Betty Behrens Seminar resumes at Clare Hall, Cambridge, discussing the works by Benedetto Croce, José de Acosta and Robert Lowth, presented by R. Bellamy, G. Ramos and V. Davis |
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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 5d
Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben
Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 5d
On Satire in Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Diderot.
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On Satire in Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Diderot.
Today’s post is digressive.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 9d
Machiavelli, Moderation, and Adam Smith
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Machiavelli, Moderation, and Adam Smith
Regular readers will not be surprised that I decided to check all the explicit references to Machiavelli in Smith’s oeuvre.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 13d
On Justified Indignation: Adam Smith's Machiavellianism.
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On Justified Indignation: Adam Smith's Machiavellianism.
Qua scholar, I view myself as part of a wider trend in scholarship on Adam Smith that emphasizes the political ambitions for (1976) Wealth of Nations. I think more than most scholars I have emphasized...
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 15d
On Machiavelli as Practically Useful Philosopher
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On Machiavelli as Practically Useful Philosopher
This week I’ll be in Rome, so I expect somewhat less regular digressing.
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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · 15d
We are familiar with the work of championing archaic vocabulary here in Cambridge: #prudence #neoColbertism #jealousyoftrade #unsocialsociability #commercialsociety #virtue #virtu #trust #judgment #reasonofstate
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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · 15d
"And, as my regular readers will have noticed, it reinforces my already strong tendency to use somewhat archaic vocabulary: mercantilism, Bonapartism, despotism, Machiavellian corruption, usurpation, and so on."
Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 16d
On Politics as Cosplaying
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On Politics as Cosplaying
Yesterday, DigressionsNimpressions received a surge of new followers directed here by The Hinternet. You are most welcome, and welcome to stay! I was puzzled by this new traffic, so I wrote Justin Smi...
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Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · 16d
Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 16d
As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.
Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context
by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 19d
Machiavelli and Reasonable Indignation
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Machiavelli and Reasonable Indignation
As the lovely poster (above) suggests, I’ll be in Rome next week for a paper on Adam Smith and indignation.
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Chris Meckstroth @chrismeckstroth.bsky.social · 19d
Hi all! Just starting out on here – my new research is about setting the rise of today's populist right in a longer, cross-national story of the history of modern democracy. Hoping to find some facts or perspective to help make sense of current events. Look forward to hearing from everybody!
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Modern Intellectual History @mihjournal.bsky.social · 19d
Now on FirstView: Republican revivals? Anton Jäger reflects on the history of republicanism in his review essay of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence and Bruno Leipold’s @brunoleipold.com Citizen Marx
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Republican Revivals
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 22d
Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...
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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 22d
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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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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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 23d
On the giving of political gifts and despotism in Montesquieu
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On the giving of political gifts and despotism in Montesquieu
Yesterday, I attended a fascinating, public conversation between Stuart Warner (Roosevelt) and my current colleague, Ronna Burger (Tulane) on Montesquieu’s (1721) Persian Letters. I have read passages...
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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · 27d
The Hamilton School for Classical & Civic Education at the U. of Florida has hired various historians of political thought in recent years (some from Cambridge!) & is now on the hunt for more faculty members.

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · Aug 28
📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26

Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social

Apply by 1 Oct 2025
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Quentin Skinner Lectureship, deadline 1 October 2025.
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · Aug 15
Hume's use of Machiavelli, pt 1.
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Hume's use of Machiavelli, pt 1.
In section six of the second Enquiry (The Enquiry Concerning the Principle of Morals (1751)), Hume claims that “all the qualities, useful to the possessor, are approved of.” Here by ‘qualities’ Hume m...
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Aug 15
📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript

We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇

It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 14
As life affirming as it gets. Political theorist Paul Sagar, now at KCL but formerly my colleague at college, on crossing the two year mark after the climbing accident that left him tetraplegic. Thank you, hedonic adaptation 🙏
Exit Darkness
How I surprised myself
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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · Aug 2
Congrats to Ingrid Schreiber, a recent DPhil @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, on the publication of her fascinating article in the august @jhideas.bsky.social, re-examining recent attempts to view Kant as a social (or proto-sociological) thinker. doi.org/10.1353/jhi....
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