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Between Science and Utopia

Physical and Astronomical Notions within French and Polish Fourierism

Piotr Kuligowski and Quentin Schwanck

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This article investigates the role of physical and astronomical notions in the formation process of transnational political ideologies. It does so by focusing on the striking example of nineteenth-century early socialist movements, particularly Fourierism. Indeed, Fourier's bold cosmogony enabled him to connect many fields of knowledge, and soon became a powerful vehicle for his ideas on the international scale. The article likewise analyses the ideological process through which Fourierist astronomical conceptions were adopted by foreign socialists, focusing on examples of Polish thinkers such as Jan Czyński and Stanisław Bratkowski who, in drawing on Fourierist ideas and usage of scientific terms, tried to embed his vocabulary in the ongoing nineteenth-century debates about Polish history and, more generally, the burning issue of the independence of the Polish state. Our comparative analysis highlights the contextual influences which contributed to re-shaping such ideas within a new absorbing context.

Cover Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

In  Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

Published (Print):
01 Jun 2022
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
1–17 (17 total)
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The European Idea of Ruling and Governing in the Light of Conceptual History

Kyösti Pekonen

The article examines, through the use of conceptual history, the semantics of ruling and government in Europe. The author identifies the discourses that have been constructed in order to answer the question of what can be ruled and governed in European cultures and shows how their prominence and timing have varied in different political cultures.

Cover Contributions to the History of Concepts

In  Contributions to the History of Concepts

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2009
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
187–207 (21 total)
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In Search of an Autobiographical Room of Her Own

First Estonian Feminist Lilli Suburg (1841–1923) as an Autobiographer

Eve Annuk

The first Estonian feminist, journalist, writer, and teacher Lilli Suburg (1841–1923) was an outstanding autobiographer who used accounts of her life as a part of her journalistic and literary practice. With the help of her autobiographical strategy she created her own textual space, which allowed her to assert the validity of her life experiences. Feminism was becoming increasingly widespread in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and Suburg tried to introduce European ideas, including feminism, to the emerging Estonian intellectual audience. However, she did not find a receptive public for these ideas, owing to the conservatism of the local Baltic-German society and the Estonian national awakening. This article explores the autobiographical writings of Lilli Suburg and analyzes them in historical context, demonstrating how these texts enabled Suburg to create a unique textual space in which she gradually defined and legitimated her feminism.

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In  Aspasia

Published (Print):
01 Mar 2013
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
1–18 (18 total)
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The Whole World Revolves Around It

Sex Education and Sex Reform in First Republic Czech Print Media

Karla Huebner

This article explores attitudes towards sex and sexuality in First Republic Czechoslovakia (1918–1938), focusing on the urban Czech population. By looking at articles, advertisements and references to sex and sexuality in Czech periodicals from 1920 to 1935, it shows that inter-war Czechoslovaks were enthusiastic participants in closely linked discourses about hygiene, physical culture, sex education, birth control and sex reform, and provides evidence that Czech discourse about sex and sexuality was al- most always – apart from erotica and pornography – closely tied to discourse about health, hygiene and social reform. The article also shows how inter-war Czechoslovaks participated in the struggle for sexual minority rights. By exploring these discourses, this article helps place Czech ideas about sexuality within the larger framework of European ideas about sexuality, especially in relation to the German discourses with which Czech writers and activists were in constant dialogue.

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In  Aspasia

Published (Print):
01 Mar 2010
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
25–48 (24 total)
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The Cosmopolitanism of Environmental Activists in Sri Lanka

Arjun Guneratne

This paper examines the emergence in Sri Lanka of transcultural thinking about environmental issues as well as the activism it engenders by examining the role of the Anglophone Sri Lankan elite as the chief protagonists historically of environmentalism in the country. It also examines one of Sri Lanka's leading NGOs, Environmental Foundation Ltd. (EFL) as an example of the activism of this class. EFL's perspective on environmental issues has its origins in the transformations wrought by colonialism in the country's class structure and in the introduction of European ideas of nature to the country's newly emergent middle-class. Modelled on the Natural Resources Defense Council of the United States, EFL was a new kind of environmental organization in Sri Lanka and a response to globalization and Sri Lanka's increasing integration into the global economy. Unlike the handful of environmental NGOS that existed in the late seventies, which were essentially pressure groups, EFL was conceived, on the model of NRDC, as a public interest law firm, and drew on international models to frame its arguments about the application of the law in the cause of environmental protection. This paper examines how these various factors—the social class of the activists and the processes of institution building—shaped a cosmopolitan environmental discourse in Sri Lanka whose roots lie in urban Sri Lankan middle class culture as it emerged and was transformed during colonial rule and in the various discourses of globalization that have been drawn on by Sri Lankan activists to craft their own arguments.

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In  Nature and Culture

Published (Print):
01 Mar 2008
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
98–114 (17 total)
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Geopolitical Transition of the European Body in Ukraine

Nadzeya Husakouskaya

’, Sociology 49 , no. 6 : 1151 – 1166 . Brković , Č. ( 2014 ), ‘ The Quest for Legitimacy: Discussing Language and Sexuality in Montenegro ’, in T. Petrović (ed.), Mirroring Europe: Ideas of Europe ad Europeanization in Balkan Societies ( Leiden

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In  Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Published (Print):
01 Jun 2019
Article Type:
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Pages:
85–89 (5 total)
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Is Germany Part of the West?

A Reconstruction of Russian Narratives

Maren Rohe

, for example. Only today … There are Russians, I don't know, er, they are very sensitive to foreign ideas, to European ideas. 27 Here, Igor clearly designates “European ideas” as “foreign ideas”; hence, the concept of Europe does not include Russia

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In  German Politics and Society

Published (Print):
01 Sep 2020
Article Type:
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96–112 (17 total)
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The Will of the People?

Carl Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on a Key Question in Democratic Theory

Samuel Salzborn

: Mathes & Seitz . Derman , Joshua . 2011 . “ Carl Schmitt on Land and Sea .” History of European Ideas 37 ( 2 ): 181 – 189 . 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2010.11.010 Douglass , Robin . 2013 . “ Rousseau’s Critique of Representative Sovereignty

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In  Democratic Theory

Published (Print):
01 Jun 2017
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11–34 (24 total)
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Machiavellian Moments and the Exigencies of Leaving

Stuart Ward

: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975), viii. 2 See Dana Simmons, “The Weight of the Moment: J. G. A. Pocock's Politics of History,” History of European Ideas 38, no .2 (2012

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In  Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

Published (Print):
01 Jun 2021
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
49–64 (16 total)
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Beyond Metaphor

Corporeal Sociability and the Language of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Joseph D. Bryan

into Language’: The Appearance and Spread of ‘Social’ in French Enlightenment Thought, 1745–1764,” History of European Ideas 34 (2008): 500–513, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2008.03.003 ; Mary Poovey, “The Liberal Civil Subject and the

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In  Contributions to the History of Concepts

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2020
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29–50 (22 total)