Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2280360
Ian Hall
"Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India." The European Legacy, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
现代性的腐败:英属印度形成过程中的帝国与道德《欧洲遗产》,出版前1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2275879
Charles Barbour
This article contributes to an ongoing revival of interest in the intellectual history of the German Vormärz, and to an emerging body of scholarship on the influential political philosopher and Bible scholar Bruno Bauer (1809–1882). While, during much of the twentieth century, Bauer was remembered primarily for his relationship with the Young Marx, more recent scholarship has attempted to examine his work on its own terms, and to consider his unique contributions to the history of republicanism and radicalism in particular. But to date, no one has provided a systematic and synoptic account of his theology during the crucial years of 1838 to 1843. This article aims to fill that gap in the literature. It argues that Bauer’s political thought cannot be understood independently of his theology, his church and religious histories, and his Bible criticism. In doing so, it provides new insights into the significance of theology for the polemical debates of the Vormärz more generally.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2272449
Jiani Fan
ABSTRACTBoth Nietzsche and La Rochefoucauld rejected metaphysical principles, such as the Kantian moral imperatives, and adopted psychology as their first philosophy. In this article I explore their views of self-love and of the will to power as the first principles of human motivation. Although both thinkers reduce actions to egoistic motives, they define the human drives and passions differently. While Nietzsche criticizes La Rochefoucauld’s view of a self-love-oriented intention as the principal cause of deeds, his interpretation is reductionist seeing that La Rochefoucauld also gives a quasi-expressivist account of deeds based on multiple drives. Unlike La Rochefoucauld, Nietzsche claims that there is no preexisting intention before or behind deeds, but rather that the doer expresses herself in and through her deeds. He laments that La Rochefoucauld’s concept of self-love is overshadowed by Christianity and criticizes him for condemning secular virtues as postlapsarian vices in disguise. Egoism, for Nietzsche, is a drive that is ingrained in the psyche for self-elevation. By comparing and contrasting their views, I conclude that self-love for La Rochefoucauld is pure self-affirmation at the expense of other drives or other agents, while Nietzsche’s notion of the will to power is a master-drive’s organization of other drives in service of the grander project of the self, which at the same time allows the subordinate drives to express themselves and fulfill the functions proper to their own nature. This interpretation sheds light on the key concept of egoism and the will to power in Nietzsche’s moral psychology, as well as on the first principles of human action in Nietzsche and La Rochefoucauld.KEYWORDS: Self-lovethe will to powermoral psychologyintentionalismnon- intentionalismFriedrich NietzscheFrançois de La Rochefoucauld AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to the copy editor and two anonymous reviewers for their invaluable suggestions. I also thank Pierre Force, Anthony Grafton, Melissa Lane and Alexander Nehamas for their insightful suggestions and long-term support for this project.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1. In the extensive secondary literature on the will to power in Nietzsche, I draw mainly on Anderson, “Friedrich Nietzsche,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, who interprets it as the interaction of “power-centers” in which the aim of each power is its own expansion; Maudemarie Clark, in Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy, claims that the will to power refers not to the phenomenon in real life, but to Nietzsche’s value system; another theory, which accords with my interpretation, sees the will to power as a psychological agent, especially Bernard Reginster, who in The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism,126, deems it to be a force that overcomes various resistances and thus combats nihilism. Some scholars, such as Günther Abel, Wol
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2273076
K. Steven Vincent
{"title":"The Making of an Austrian Economic Theorist <b>Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950</b> , by Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 840 pp., $50.00 (cloth), $49.99 (PDF & EPUB)","authors":"K. Steven Vincent","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2273076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2273076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22471,"journal":{"name":"The European Legacy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2265720
Karis Muller
"Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present." The European Legacy, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1
《重塑欧洲:欧盟的历史,1945年至今》《欧洲遗产》,印刷前,第1页
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2265713
Kaan Kangal
{"title":"From Affective Ethics to Deep Ecology: Spinoza’s Many Disciples <b>When Spinoza Met Marx: Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity</b> , by Tracie Matysik, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 368 pp., $40.00 (cloth)","authors":"Kaan Kangal","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2265713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2265713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22471,"journal":{"name":"The European Legacy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136295607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2265712
Kaan Kangal
{"title":"In Defense of the Planet <b>Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism</b> , by Kohei Saito, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 276 pp., £85.00 (cloth), £29.99 (paper), £23.99 (Kindle)","authors":"Kaan Kangal","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2265712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2265712","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22471,"journal":{"name":"The European Legacy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2265718
Thomas Klikauer
{"title":"Teuflische Allmacht. Über die verleugneten christlichen Wurzeln des modernen Antisemitismus und Antizionismus [Devilish omnipotence: On denying the Christian roots of modern antisemitism and anti-Zionism] <b>Teuflische Allmacht. Über die verleugneten christlichen Wurzeln des modernen Antisemitismus und Antizionismus [Devilish omnipotence: On denying the Christian roots of modern antisemitism and anti-Zionism]</b> , by Tilman Tarach, Freiburg, Edition Telok, 2022, 224 pp., €14.80 (paper)","authors":"Thomas Klikauer","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2265718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2265718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22471,"journal":{"name":"The European Legacy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2265716
Thomas Klikauer
{"title":"The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West <b>The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West</b> , by Alex Ryvchin, Boston, MA, Cherry Orchard Books, 2023, x + 114 pp., $14.95 (paper)","authors":"Thomas Klikauer","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2265716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2265716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22471,"journal":{"name":"The European Legacy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}