This article offers some reflections on the importance Adam Smith accorded to luck in The Wealth of Nations. While the place of moral luck in The Theory of Moral Sentiments has been the subject of ...

This article offers some reflections on the importance Adam Smith accorded to luck in The Wealth of Nations. While the place of moral luck in The Theory of Moral Sentiments has been the subject of ...

The long eighteenth century was a good time for history and historians. This article considers one of its most original genres, conjectural history, and of one of conjectural history’s most interes...

This paper argues that the concept of dignity played an important role in the political thought of Edmund Burke. It seeks to show that, in contrast with the egalitarian and individual version of di...

What did Mary Wollstonecraft like and love? This is the question Sylvana Tomaselli, a lecturer at Cambridge University, asks herself at the start of her new book about the writer and philosopher who...

Although Adam Smith’s thoughts on education have attracted significant scholarly attention, his ideas on how the primary education of children should be funded has been relatively neglected. I re-e...

Sylvana Tomaselli shares the 5 best books on the eighteenth-century you should read for yourself. Have you read The Wealth of Nations?

Published in History of European Ideas (Vol. 49, No. 6, 2023)

John J. Miller is joined by Sylvana Tomaselli of St. John’s College, Cambridge, to discuss Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Published in History of European Ideas (Vol. 49, No. 6, 2023)

La liberté des Anciens et des Modernes deux cents ans après Benjamin Constant. Colloque international en l'honneur de la Prof. Biancamaria Fontana

Leather-jacketed, Wagner-loving moral philosopher and gossip who was even incapable of writing a dull footnote

Abstract. In 1776, Pennsylvania established an institution called the Council of Censors, which would be elected every seven years and was tasked with ensu

Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, André Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions? In this engaging and invigorating...

For those reliant on short-term university contracts, work can be chaotic and uncertain

The library has, like Poland itself, experienced a tumultuous and often tragic history.

The philosopher-statesman Alexander Kojève and President Emmanuel Macron make unlikely bedfellows as France tries to reshape the world order.

Report highlights role higher education institutions play in accelerating innovation

Excavations of bronze age graves have found battle-scarred female archers, says the historian Bettany Hughes

How a determined student made Sanskrit’s ‘language machine’ work for the first time in 2,500 years

Centuries before coronavirus, plague, smallpox, yellow fever and other contagions killed hundreds of millions around the world.

Angus Brown investigates why an increasing number of MPs are being suspended from Parliament and examines if the system needs reform.