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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 22d

One Host Theory

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23d

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

Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 23d

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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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Aug 20

In my forthcoming but so far only half written book…!

Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Jul 9

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.”

Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Jul 8

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....

The painting "La liberté" (c.1793-1794) by Nanine Vallain

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Jul 9

This looks fascinating.

Thanks @tomaashby.bsky.social

Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Jul 8

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....

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Jul 1

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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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Jun 26

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...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thanks Cayce! Full text also available here: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/e67128...

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 31

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 31

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 31

A new ideas podcast is coming!

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Coming soon!
Roots and Branches - the new ideas podcast from the @StAndrewsIIH at the @univofstandrews

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 31

Thoughtful and moving from Chelsea Wallis

Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · May 30

Even ostensibly ‘inclusive’ schooling is often profoundly exclusionary towards neurodivergent learners. Is there another way?
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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 26

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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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 13

Happy book birthday!!

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 8

Today!

Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 28

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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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · May 5

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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doi.org/10.1080/0191...

The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 28

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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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 27

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...

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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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 27

Hello California 👋

Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 26

Just saw this - will read with interest!

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 26

See Pickering book on Comte and her article on Comte and the Saint-Simonians, if you haven’t already :)

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · Apr 18

Here is a link to a free copy of the review (for the first 50 users):

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D2QRN...

FYI @mattpolprof.bsky.social

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · Apr 17

Appreciate this thoughtful review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" by @thomaslalevee.bsky.social. Appreciate being called a "generous and conscientious" scholar.

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