Modern European Intellectual History

2012
Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division
Moyn, Samuel. “Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division.” Constellations 19, no. 1 (2012): 37-50. Publisher's Version
The Creaturely Limits of Knowledge: Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, and Weimar Theological Pessimism
Moyn, Samuel, and Azzan Yadin. “The Creaturely Limits of Knowledge: Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, and Weimar Theological Pessimism.” In The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law, edited by Leonard V Kaplan and Rudy Koshar. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. Publisher's Version
The Spirit of Jewish History
Moyn, Samuel. “The Spirit of Jewish History.” In Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era, edited by Zachary Braiterman, Martin Kavka, and David Novak. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Publisher's Version
Bearing Witness: Theological Sources of a New Secular Morality
Moyn, Samuel. “Bearing Witness: Theological Sources of a New Secular Morality.” In The Holocaust and Historical Methodology, edited by Dan Stone. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Publisher's Version
Afterword: The Self-Evidence of Human Rights
Moyn, Samuel. “Afterword: The Self-Evidence of Human Rights.” In Self-Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment, edited by Kate E Tunstall. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012. Publisher's Version
The Politics of Individual Rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort
Moyn, Samuel. “The Politics of Individual Rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort.” In French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day, edited by Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt, 291-310. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Publisher's Version
2011
   Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order, and the Origins of Human Rights
Moyn, Samuel. “ Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order, and the Origins of Human Rights.” In Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights, edited by Luigi Bonanante, Roberto Papini, and William Sweet. Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2011. Publisher's Version
Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights
Moyn, Samuel. “Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights.” In Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, 85-106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Publisher's Version
The First Historian of Human Rights
Moyn, Samuel. “The First Historian of Human Rights.” American Historical Review 116, no. 1 (2011): 58-79. Publisher's Version
2010
Personalismus, Gemeinschaft, und die Ursprünge der Menschenrechte
Moyn, Samuel. “Personalismus, Gemeinschaft, und die Ursprünge der Menschenrechte.” In ., Moralpolitik: Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010. Publisher's Version
2009
Appealing to Heaven: Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War
Moyn, Samuel. “Appealing to Heaven: Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War.” Hebraic Political Studies 4, no. 3 (2009): 286-303. Publisher's Version
   The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self
Moyn, Samuel. “ The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self.” Modern Intellectual History 6, no. 2 (2009): 315-41. Publisher's Version
The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Breckman, Warren, Peter E Gordon, Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Elliot Neaman, ed. The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay to realize the possibilities for mutual enrichment between intellectual history and critical theory. This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of intellectual history and asks how the legacy of critical theory has influenced scholarship across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In honor of Martin Jay's unparalleled achievements, this volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

2008
Hannah Arendt on the Secular
Moyn, Samuel. “Hannah Arendt on the Secular.” New German Critique, no. 105 (2008): 71-96. Publisher's Version
On the Intellectual Origins of François Furet's Masterpiece
Moyn, Samuel. “On the Intellectual Origins of François Furet's Masterpiece.” Tocqueville Review 29, no. 2 (2008): 59-78. Publisher's Version
Jacques Maritain: le origini dei diritti umani e il pensiero politico cristiano
Moyn, Samuel. “Jacques Maritain: le origini dei diritti umani e il pensiero politico cristiano.” In Dialogo interculturale e diritti umani: La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani, Genesi, evoluzione, e problemi odierni (1948-2008), edited by Luigi Bonanante and Roberto Papini. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008. Publisher's Version
   Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality
Moyn, Samuel. “ Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality.” In The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory, edited by Warren Breckman, Peter E Gordon, Dirk A Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Eliott Neaman. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. Publisher's Version
2007
From Experience to Law: Leo Strauss and the Weimar Crisis of the Philosophy of Religion
Moyn, Samuel. “From Experience to Law: Leo Strauss and the Weimar Crisis of the Philosophy of Religion.” History of European Ideas 33, no. 2 (2007): 174-94. Publisher's Version
2006
Empathy in History, Empathizing with Humanity
Moyn, Samuel. “Empathy in History, Empathizing with Humanity.” History & Theory 54, no. 3 (2006): 397-415. Publisher's Version
Democracy Past and Future
Rosanvallon, Pierre. Democracy Past and Future. Edited by Samuel Moyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life.

One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new readings of the history, aims, and possibilities of democratic theory and practice, and provides unique theoretical understandings of key moments in democracy's trajectory, from the French Revolution and the struggles for universal suffrage to European unification and the crises of the present. In so doing, he lays out an influential new theory of how to write the history of politics. Rosanvallon's historical and philosophical approach examines the "pathologies" that have curtailed democracy's potential and challenges the antitotalitarian liberalism that has dominated recent political thought. All in all, he adroitly combines historical and theoretical analysis with an insistence on the need for a new form of democracy. Above all, he asks what democracy means when the people rule but are nowhere to be found.

Throughout his career, Rosanvallon has resisted simple categorization. Rosanvallon was originally known as a primary theorist of the "second left", which hoped to stake out a non-Marxist progressive alternative to the irresistible appeal of revolutionary politics. In fact, Rosanvallon revived the theory of "civil society" even before its usage by East European dissidents made it globally popular as a non-statist politics of freedom and pluralism. His ideas have been shaped by a variety of influences, ranging from his work with an influential French union to his teachers François Furet and Claude Lefort.

Well known throughout Europe as a historian, political theorist, social critic, and public intellectual, Pierre Rosanvallon was recently elected to a professorship at the Collège de France, Paris, a position held at various times by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu. Democracy Past and Future begins with Rosanvallon's groundbreaking and synthetic lecture that he delivered upon joining this institution. Throughout the volume, Rosanvallon illuminates and invigorates contemporary political and democratic thought.

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