Preface: Kari Saastamoinen – An Appreciation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Intellectual History and Helsinki: Editorial Introduction 1
4. 1 The State of Intellectual History: Local and Global 5
5. Part I Inclusion and Exclusion in the History of Ideas
6. 2 Inventing “Humanity”: Early-Modern Perspectives 25
7. 3 Human Rights and their Realisation in the World: Herder’s Debate with Kant 47
8. 4 Pierre Gassendi and the Humanist Case for a Vegetarian Diet 75
9. 5 Enlightenment Historical Writing and the Expulsion of England’s Jews 89
10. 6 The Encyclopedism of the Russian Enlightenment in the History of Ideas 105
11. 7 David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and the Possibility of an Inclusive Moral Dialogue 125
12. 8 Neither Citizens nor Slaves: The Aporetic Condition of Modern Citizenship 143
13. Part II Natural Law, Political Economy and History: Essays in Honour of Kari Saastamoinen
14. Preface: Kari Saastamoinen – An Appreciation 173
15. 9 The Problem of Sociability after Hobbes: Pufendorf and Locke on the Politics of Recognition 177
16. 10 Pierre Nicole and amour-propre 195
17. 11 Hutcheson’s Ambivalence about the Passions: Must Virtue and Fittingness Come Apart? 219
18. 12 Pufendorf’s Sociability in (Italian) Translation 235
19. 13 Rethinking the Pursuit of Happiness – Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi’s Critique of Paternal Rule 259
20. 14 An Empire of Renewed Ambitions: Political Economy and National Character in the Travels (1782) of William Macintosh 275
21. 15 How Ideology Became Isms: A History of a Conceptual Coupling 291
22. Contributors 319
23. Bibliography 323
24. Index 355