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Democracy: constrained or militant? Carl Schmitt and Karl Loewenstein on what it means to defend the constitution by Croce, Mariano

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The self-purchase of "freedom", a reparative history of the abolition of Caribbean slavery, 1832-1833 by Levy, Leroy

“…The discovery that loans for the payment of slave abolition compensation had not been repaid by British taxpayers until 2015 took many by surprise. But it is…”
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Making sense of the exotic: the differing impact of travel reports in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought by Gaukroger, Stephen

“…In his 1681 Discours sur l'histoire universelle, Bossuet declared that Christianity provided the organizing thread of history, and anything that was not guided…”
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"Le bon homme Comenius": the personal and intellectual links between Comenius and Leibniz by Pavlas, Petr

“…In this article, I first reconsider the personal links between Comenius and Leibniz, searching for how Comenian texts and ideas may have reached Leibniz. For…”
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Julia Wedgwood and the origin of language by Stone, Alison

“…This article provides the first detailed modern examination of Julia Wedgwood's interventions in the Victorian debate about the origin of language. Wedgwood…”
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Out of the margins: readers and the early modern (re-)emergence of mathematics by Tracey, Kevin Gerard

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The failures of political prophecy: Ernst Kantorowicz's wartime lectures by Nagtegaal, Bennett

“…This paper introduces a series of lectures Ernst Kantorowicz offered to the Army Specialized Training Program in 1943 in order to reconsider the development of…”
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Between Weber and Mussolini. The issue of political leadership in the thought of the late Michels by Antonini, Francesca

“…The aim of this paper is to briefly reconstruct Robert Michels's account of the issue of political leadership as it developed in the last phase of his work,…”
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Anti-liberalism, Civil War and dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and his intellectual influence on the Francoist ideologists (1939-1942) by Pérez-Crespo, Carlos

“…Carl Schmitt is the most important anti-liberal political theorist of the European interwar period (1918-1939). His theories on the state of exception,…”
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Democracy and inequality in Latin America: revisiting the intellectual legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell by Mercader, Sofía

“…This article revisits the work of the Argentine political scientist Guillermo O'Donnell (1936-2011), one of Latin America's leading intellectual figures of the…”
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From sanctus to shengren: mediating Christian and Chinese concepts of human excellence in early modern China by Canaris, Daniel

“…In the 1580s, when the Jesuit missionaries Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607) and Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) established the first Jesuit mission in China, the terms…”
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Transwriting in Aleni's Xingxue cushu: communicating the philosophy of human nature between the West and late Ming China by Zhu, Hailin

“…Giulio Aleni's Xingxue cushu 性學觕述 (A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature, 1623-1646) was a product of an ambitious project by the Jesuits in China…”
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Hans Jonas’s image theory by Fossa, Fabio, Franzini Tibaldeo, Roberto

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From sodomy to homosexuality: the role of criminal law in Filippo Maria Renazzi’s Rome between the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Era by Scaramella, Tommaso

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Organic intellectuals from modern India: B. R. Ambedkar and R. M. Lohia on inequality, intersectionality, and justice by Jha, Priyanka, Christiansen, Christian Olaf

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The early days of Tibetan Studies in Europe: some textual and historical considerations regarding I.J. Schmidt (1779-1843) and his German translation of The Wise and the Foolish by Rheingans, Jim

“…The second half of the eighteenth and the nineteenth century saw the beginnings of Tibetan Studies in Europe through first translations, grammars, and…”
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Translating the East: an introduction by Borghesi, Francesco, Lü, Yixu

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Translation, dialogue and conversation: Malebranche's Entretien d'un philosophe chrétien, et d'un philosophe chinois by Benjamin, Andrew

“…This article offers an analysis of the implicit conception of translation at work in Malebranche's Entretien d'un philosophe chrétien, et d'un philosophe…”
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Dictionaries as authorities? The problematic use of Chinese dictionaries by missionaries in the Rites Controversy by Meynard, Thierry

“…In the seventeenth century, missionaries in China translated a vast array of Chinese works, including classics, official histories, and legal documents. Their…”
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The Five Human Relationships (wulun 五倫) as presented to European readers in François Noël's translation of the Elementary learning (Xiaoxue 小學) by Falato, Giulia

“…This paper provides a preliminary examination of François Noël's (1651-1729) translation of Zhu Xi 朱熹's (1130-1200) Elementary learning (Xiaoxue 小學, 1187),…”
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