Andrea Di Carlo
University College Cork, Philosophy, Graduate Student
- Literary Theory, Old English Literature, History of Linguistics, Germanic linguistics, Germanic Philology, Nordic languages, and 577 moreOld English, Old English Riddles, British Literature, Gothic Literature, Contemporary British Literature, Filologia Germanica, Michel Foucault, Comparative medieval literature and culture (German, English, Old Norse & Old French), Old Norse Religion, Old English Precepts, German Law, Old English, Middle English, Old Norse poetry and prose, Old Norse heroic saga and eddaic literature, Orality-Literacy Studies, Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, Anglo-Saxon Studies (History), Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature, Reformation Theology, English Reformation, Reformation Studies, Martin Luther, Old Norse Sorcery, Mythical and Monstrous, Old English Language and Literature, Indo-European Linguistics, Scottish Reformation, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Medieval Europe, Anglo-Norman history, women and family, monasticism, Anglo-Saxon history, Vikings, Anglo-Saxon Studies, Erich Auerbach, Walter Benjamin, Mimesis, Philology, Sociology of Literature, Theodor Adorno, Medieval Sermons, Old English Poetry, Medieval History, Sermon Studies, Ideology, Manuscript Studies, Codicology, Palaeography, Editing, Textual Circulation and Reception, History of Book, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Umberto Eco, Medieval Riddles, Cultural Anthropology, Vikings, Material Culture Studies, Urbanism, Landscape Archaeology, Identity, Anglo-Saxons, Early Medieval Period, Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse Languages, Literature, and Culture, Alliterative verse, Modern English Poetry and Poetics, The Inklings, Human Rights, Fantastic Literature, Modernism (Literature), Freudian Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Semiotics, Medieval Philosophy, Cultural Theory, Middle English, Chaucer, Old English Language, Historical Linguistics, Old Norse Language, Old Norse Literature, History of Philosophy, Medieval Scandinavia, Viking Age, Religious and Magical Practices, Icelandic Sagas, Anglo-Saxon Literature and History, High Medieval Literature, Textual Criticism, Onomastics, Place-Names, Old English Charms, Phonology, Orthography, Older Scots Language and Literature, George Herbert, Romantic poetry, Intellectual History, Modernism, Jan Assmann, Aleida Assmann, Cultural Memory, Collective Memory, Teoria Della Letteratura, Francesco Orlando, Gender and Sexuality, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Antoine Faivre, Medical Anthropology, History of Medicine, Deliberative decision making; organizational democracy; Habermas, Jurgen Habermas, Habermas public sphere, Habermas and the Public Sphere, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Dictionary of the Middle Ages, T.S. Eliot, T.s. Eliot the Waste Land, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Tacitus and the Germanic tribes, Old Germanic tribes and society, Germanic religion and cults, Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Comparative Religion, Claude Levi Strauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Giorgio Agamben, Calvinismo, John Calvin, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, James George Frazer, Indo-European Studies, Mircea Eliade, History of religion, Religious studies, Intertextuality, Antropology of Violence, Cultural Antropology, Enlightment, Religion and Artefacts, Reception Studies, Reception Theory, Gender History, Witchcraft (Anthropology Of Religion), Pagan Studies, Mythology (Old Norse Literature), Anthropology of Religion, Cultural_Studies, Martin Lutero, Martha Nussbaum, Historical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Letteratura Tedesca, Old Russian Literature, Old Russian Language, Philosophy, Oral Traditions, Medieval Literature -- Old Norse -- Literary Theory -- Psychoanalysis, Polysystem Studies, Medieval Literatures, Ethnography, English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romantic literature: William Blake, Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge and De Quincey, René Girard, Book of Job, Social and Cultural Anthropology, John Donne, Queer Studies, Gender, 19th Century Scottish Literature, The Historical Novel, Scottish Studies, Anglo-Saxon Legal History, Germanisches Recht, Medieval history, Icelandic sagas, social theory, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Morris, 19th-Century/Victorian Medievalism, Victorian medievalism and 19th century material culture, SIGURD THE VOLSUNG, Cultural History, Protestantism, Multiliteracies, Emergent Literacy, Orkneyinga saga, The Dramatic Significance of the Ghost in Hamlet, Bourdieu's Sociological Theory of Literature, The Winter's Tale, Andrew Pettegree, Popular Culture, Literary Darwinism Or Evolutionary Literary Theory, German Studies, Jonathan Dollimore, Textual Scholarship, Renaissance Studies, New Historicism, Trust, Renaissance Philosophy, Christopher Norris, Perceptions of the Past, Early Modern England, John Milton, Literature and Religion, Alfred the Great and the Alfredian Circle, Separation of Church and State, Renaissance Literature (Literature), Seventeenth Century English Literature, Antiquarianism in the seventeenth century, Quentin Skinner, Early Modern English Literature and Drama, The Monstrous and Otherness, Letteratura Odeporica, Middle Age and its reception through the ages, Melancholy, Melancholy Studies, Witch Hunt Studies, European Witch Trials, Reformation History, Queer Theory, Book of Common Prayer, Trauma Studies, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, Charles Taylor, National Identity, Social Mobility, Cultural Mobility, Migration mobilities, Verstegan, Literature and Ethics, History of Ideas, Ancient Philosophy, Literature and Law, Littérature Française, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, 17th Century Dutch Republic, History of The Netherlands, Robert Louis Stevenson, New gender history, Postmodern sexualities, Queer socio-cultural history, History Of Modern Philosophy, Literature, Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Leo Bersani, English Renaissance Literature, Theory of literature, James Hogg, History, Culture, Medieval Church History, Theology, Nordic History, Witchcraft, Constitutional Law, Law and Literature, History of Political Thought, Political Philosophy, Republicanism, Greek Literature, Legal Theory, Shakespearean Drama, English Literature, Early Modern History, John Wyclif, William Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, Reformed theology, Ethical Theory, Metaphysical poetry, Viking Age Scandinavia, Memory Studies, Early Modern Intellectual History, Political mythology, Calvinism, Carlo Ginzburg, Microhistoria, Microhistory, Monstrosity, Monster Theory, Monsters and the Monstrous, Vampires, Otherness, Monsters, Biopolitics, Critical Theory, Political Theory, Continental Philosophy, Marxism, Michel de Montaigne, Renaissance literature, Renaissance Humanism, French Renaissance Literature, Montaigne, Early Modern Literature, Early Modern Europe, Italian Renaissance literature, Filologia Italiana Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento, Letteratura italiana, Renaissance, Italian Studies, Governmentality Studies, New Materialism, Governmentality, Biopower and Biopolitics, Poststructuralism, Gilles Deleuze, Reason of State from Machiavelli to Botero, Tyranny in political thought and litterature (XVI-XVIIIs), Machiavellianism, Machiavelli, Francesco Guicciardini, Early Modern Political Thought, Italian Literature, Thanatopolitics, Necropolitics, Thanatology, Object Oriented Ontology, Environmental Humanities, New Materialisms, Anthropocene, Global governmentality, Social Theory, Political Sociology, Critical Legal Theory, Continental Political Thought, Contemporary continental political philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Early Modern Philosophy, Foucault Studies, Critical Sociology, Bernard Stiegler, Leo Strauss, Political Theology, Frantz Fanon, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Race and Racism, Colonial Discourse, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Theology), Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy), French phenomenology: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste and Emmanuel Levinas. Husserl and Heidegger., Jean-Luc Marion, Michel de Montaigne (Philosophy), Critical Thinking, French Literature, Reason of State, History of Historiography, Tacitus, Seneca, Neostoicism, Stoic Tradition, Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a way of life, Foucault, Postcolonial Theory, Decolonial Thought, Hannah Arendt, Frankfurt School, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Herbert Marcuse, Feminist Theory, Feminism, Hermeneutics, Protestant Reformation, Wendy Brown, Niccolò Machiavelli, Massimo Cacciari, Contemporary Italian Philosophy, Biopolitics (in Agamben, Foucault and Negri), Ausnahmezustand · Sicherheit · Freiheit · Selbsterhaltung · Rechtsstaat · Feindstrafrecht · Carl Schmitt, Marcus Aurelius, Roman Republic, Republican Rome, Roman Religion, Late Roman Republic, Augustus, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Critical and Cultural Theory, Classics, Cicero, Roman political thought, Ancient Greek and Roman Political Systems, Homer, Power and Subjectivation, Neoliberalism, Judith Butler, Guy Debord, Italian Theory, Italian Political Thought, Operaismo, Roberto Esposito, religious dissent in Early modern Europe, Libertinage, Libertine Literature, Seventeenth Century, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, Libertinism (Paolo Sarpi; Accademia Degli Incogniti; Venetian Academies; Antiquarian and Epistolary Networks Bet Ven/Padua and N. Europe, Libertinism, History of the Reformation, Latin, Peter Sloterdijk, Post-modernism, Thomas Macho, Kulturgeschichte, Gnosis, Kulturwissenschaft, Sloterdijk, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Philosophy of Culture, International Modernism; Transatlantic Approaches to American, British, and Continental European Literature; the Visual Culture of Modernism; Textual Editing and Literary Manuscripts; Little Magazines; and Translation, Kulturwissenschaften, Mannerism, Philippe Descola, Early Modern Intellectual History and the History of Ideas, Structuralism/Post-Structuralism, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Simone de Beauvoir, Literary History, Audience and Reception Studies, Operaismo, Autonomia and Post-workerism, Epicureanism, Epicureanism and Stoicism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modernity, Jacques Rancière, Filologia Classica, Resistenza italiana, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Derridean Deconstruction, Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida & Deconstruction, Émmanuel Lévinas, Humanities, Sartre, Simon Critchley, Critical Social Theory, European intellectual history, Antonio Gramsci, Contemporary Italian History and Politics, Tacitism, Continental Philosophy and Aesthetics, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, Occupy Movement, Theology and Culture, Theology and Cinema, Transcultural Political Theory, Philosophy of Race and Racism, Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, Philosophy Of Race, Critical Race Theory, Immigrant Autobiography, Migration Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Black/African Diaspora, Nationalism, Cultural Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Marxist theory, Louis Althusser, Hans-Georg Gadamer, France, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Ancient Greek Religion, Ancient Rome, Russian Studies, Pierre Bourdieu, Max Weber (Philosophy), Max Weber, Biblical Studies, Raymond Geuss, Carl Schmitt, German Literature and Culture, 20th Century German Literature, Roman Empire, German Literature, Caesarism, American Revolutionary ideology, Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian Cultural Studies, Politics, Cultural Theology, Michelangelo Buonarroti, French Revolution, Early Christianity, Colonialism, Classical Reception Studies, Thucydides, Ancient History, Gramsci, Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony, Karl Marx, Gramscian Studies, Hegemony, Marxism (Political Science), Jacques Lacan, Axel Honneth, Répression policière, Social Movements, Altermondialisme, Raewyn Connell, Alterglobalization Movement, Alterglobalisation, Anarcha-féminisme, Agoraphobie Politique, Agoraphilie Politique, Political agoraphilia, Roman imperialism, Italian Philosophy, Carl Schmitt (Political Science), Ordoliberalism, Weimar Republic, Phénoménologie allemande et française, Pensée Critique, Philosophie Française Contemporaine, Indigenous Literature, Contemporary French History, Art History, Geschichtsphilosophie, European Studies, Literature and Politics, Heinrich von Kleist, Post operaismo, Phenomenology of the body, Feminist Philosophy, History of Religion, Catharism, Heresy and Inquisition, Heresy and Orthodoxy, History, Writing and Memory, Deconstructivism, Literature and Theology, William Tyndale, Scripture and Tradition, Reformation Sermons, King James Bible, Geneva Bible, Interdisciplinarity, Mimetic Theory, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, Postmodernism, Hyperreality, Simulation, War Studies, Doppelgänger, Fascism and Modernism, Theories of Sovereignty, Dialogism, Bakhtin, Bakhtin dialogism, Poststructuralist Theory, Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, Arendt, Heidegger, Political phenomenology and hermeneutics, Existentialism, Bonnie Honig, Antifascismo, Novecento Italiano, Archivistica, Archives, Philosophy of Art, Communism, Personalization of Politics, Secularization, Vampire Studies, Cultural Sociology, Dante, Dante Studies, and Filologia dantescaedit
- I hold an MA in Old English Literature from the University of Pisa; my work focused on ambiguity and innuendoes in Ex... moreI hold an MA in Old English Literature from the University of Pisa; my work focused on ambiguity and innuendoes in Exeter Book riddles.
I am a PhD student in Philosophy at the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, My PhD research focuses on republicanism and the idea of the prince in Machiavelli and Milton (through his medievalism and his Neo-Alfredianism).
I tutor undergraduate students in Philosophy.
My research interests include Niccolò Machiavelli, John Milton and medievalism, the long Reformation in England (especially Biblical representations of Tudor monarchs), medievalism, Gothic literature (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, RL Stevenson, and James Hogg), and Old English literature (the riddle tradition).edit
Isēgoria (freedom of speech) and parrēsia (the obligation to speak the truth for the common good) are two concepts that are often conflated in contemporary political discourse. Whilst all US citizens are entitled to isēgoria, it emboldens... more
Isēgoria (freedom of speech) and parrēsia (the obligation to speak the truth for the common good) are two concepts that are often conflated in contemporary political discourse. Whilst all US citizens are entitled to isēgoria, it emboldens wealthy, male, and conservative politicians to say whatever they want, making implicit reference to parrēsia by claiming they are victims of a societal landscape, where traditional American values are supplanted by the threat of secularism and a more varied population. By using Foucault’s two last lecture courses, The Government of Self and Others and The Courage of Truth, I will shed light on conflation of concepts, showing how the Foucauldian toolkit can illuminate contemporary political debates and how minorities can mobilise parrēsia to call attention to inequalities.
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Separation of Church and State, Puritans, and 15 moreContemporary Continental Philosophy, Black Panthers, First Amendment/Freedom of Expression issues, Thymos, Victimhood, Parrhesia, The Establishment Clause, US Supreme Court, Foucauldian Theories, Donald Trump, Isegoria, Roe Vs. Wade, Black Lives Matter, Foucault and Ethics, and parrēsia
This article proposes a novel interpretation of Montaigne's and Bayle's comments on Tacitus. My contention is that their Tacitism is a Foucauldian discourse on toleration. Toleration is an example of governmentality, a strategy to govern... more
This article proposes a novel interpretation of Montaigne's and Bayle's comments on Tacitus. My contention is that their Tacitism is a Foucauldian discourse on toleration. Toleration is an example of governmentality, a strategy to govern a population, not a genuine call for religious diversity. This novel reading applies to Michel de Montaigne's Essays and Pierre Bayle's Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet and his Historical and Critical Dictionary. Montaigne's essay On the Useful and the Honourable, he shows that there is a difference between his public and private persona. The author discusses ideas of toleration in a Tacitist style. This happens in his essay Something Lacking in Our Civil Administrations, where the author laments the death of Sebastian Castalio and, indirectly, he supports his commitment to religious pluralism. As I will show, Montaigne embraces a Gallican belief system, which is more conciliatory Bayle a century later, discusses the same issues. In his Various Thoughts, he makes a case for toleration as a tool to manage a population. Ultimately, it will be clear how this plea for toleration is not a product of the Enlightenment, but it is rather a discourse to achieve societal compliance.
Research Interests: Governmentality, Michel Foucault, Michel de Montaigne, Early Modern France, Tacitus, and 15 moreMichel de Montaigne (Philosophy), Religious Toleration, Pierre Bayle, State Theory and Governmentality, Foucault Studies, Tacitism, Biopower, Biopolitics and Governmentality, Tolerance, politics, Pierre Bayle., Medieval and Early Modern France, Montaigne Foucault, Tacitus Annals, Tacitism in Europe. XVI-XVII cent, Tacitus' Histories, Tacitus Annales, and tacitisme
In this article, I propose a ground-breaking interpretation of Michel de Montaigne and Thomas Browne by labelling them as Masters of Suspicion. Like Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, both authors lived at a time of considerable disarray. On the... more
In this article, I propose a ground-breaking interpretation of Michel de Montaigne and Thomas Browne by labelling them as Masters of Suspicion. Like Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, both authors lived at a time of considerable disarray. On the one hand, both experienced the brutality of religious conflicts in France and Britain. On the other, they destabilised philosophical, literary and religious codes of behaviour by casting doubt on pre-existing narratives. Montaigne's phenomenology of the self allowed him to voice more tolerant views on religion. In a similar manner, Browne's phenomenological experience of science and his irenical views allowed him to make a case for religious diversity and scientific accuracy.
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ABSTRACT: Recent scholarly debate has been fuelled by a reappraisal of a restricted number of Old English Riddles (10, 18, 23, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 52, 56, 60) from the Exeter Book. If Tupper (1910) had eschewed unorthodox and unsavoury... more
ABSTRACT: Recent scholarly debate has been fuelled by a reappraisal of a restricted number of Old English Riddles (10, 18, 23, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 52, 56, 60) from the Exeter Book. If Tupper (1910) had eschewed unorthodox and unsavoury interpretations, Harlem Stewart (1983) and, more recently, Salvador Bello (2003), Davis (2006), Murphy (2011) and Evans (2014) have taken a more liberal stance on analysing these texts, making allowances for innuendoes; thus, the purpose of this work is to reconsider the interplay between sex, gender in a highly sophisticated form of poetry, the riddle, by drawing appropriate conclusions from such an interaction in a medieval background
In this short paper, I set out to briefly sketch how the Reformation has impacted over the centuries on Europe by focusing on economy, morals and politics.
In this short paper, I set out to briefly analyse the heritage of the Reformation in the light of its 500th anniversary in 2017. Considerations of what has been achieved during this timespan will be prioritised, focusing on economy,... more
In this short paper, I set out to briefly analyse the heritage of the Reformation in the light of its 500th anniversary in 2017. Considerations of what has been achieved during this timespan will be prioritised, focusing on economy, politics and morality
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My presentation is structured around three clusters: To show how The Justified Sinner is a Counter-Enlightenment text (cf. Di Carlo 2016); To investigate the complex narrative framework of the novel; To re-evaluate Gil-Martin’s role... more
My presentation is structured around three clusters:
To show how The Justified Sinner is a Counter-Enlightenment text (cf. Di Carlo 2016);
To investigate the complex narrative framework of the novel;
To re-evaluate Gil-Martin’s role within the plot.
To show how The Justified Sinner is a Counter-Enlightenment text (cf. Di Carlo 2016);
To investigate the complex narrative framework of the novel;
To re-evaluate Gil-Martin’s role within the plot.
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Old Testament kings set subtle political models for religious propaganda. Archbishop Cranmer hailed Edward VI as the new Josiah and pushed for a Josiah agenda to banish Roman Catholicism from England (cf. Aston 2016, Simpson 2007). The... more
Old Testament kings set subtle political models for religious propaganda. Archbishop Cranmer hailed Edward VI as the new Josiah and pushed for a Josiah agenda to banish Roman Catholicism from England (cf. Aston 2016, Simpson 2007). The same was expected from Elizabeth I, who had become the new Hezekiah (cf. Keenan 2007).
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Donne, and The Book of Common Prayer: a case study The long English Reformation and the seventeenth century: they suffice to evoke images of death, sickness, and suffering. This paper will commence by describing what Peter Marshall calls... more
Donne, and The Book of Common Prayer: a case study The long English Reformation and the seventeenth century: they suffice to evoke images of death, sickness, and suffering. This paper will commence by describing what Peter Marshall calls " the reformation of the dead " (Marshall 2002: 5). Henry VIII's religious policies meant turning medieval religious practices on its head: abbeys and monasteries were therefore dissolved. However, it was under Edward VI that chantries and prayers for the dead were officially discontinued, since the Book of Common Prayer explicitly forbade and discouraged such forms of personal piety. Thus, the English Reformation put a stop to the memory of the dead and the old rites. However, no period in English history is as sombre as the seventeenth century, on account of the Civil War and the ensuing bloodbath. Such gloominess is perfectly captured by John Donne and Andrew Marvell. Their witty and paradoxical compositions are obscured by recurring images of death, sickness, and an impeding sense of doom. John Donne's poetry abounds in evocations of tolling bells, suicide, and diseases. In this context, his Anatomy of the World possibly increases woe: the world is a wasteland dominated by death and uncertainty. Andrew Marvell is even gloomier: his bleak Calvinistic upbringing surfaces in his apparently cheerful To His Coy Mistress. Mournful images, like the vault and devouring worms, frequently re-emerge. Thus, this paper addresses the sombreness of the English Renaissance.
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Monsters are often defined as those unfortunate beings displaced from the “normal,” and in the inaugural issue of The Journal of Gods and Monsters, we are exploring this displacement and the role of religious traditions in its... more
Monsters are often defined as those unfortunate beings displaced from the “normal,” and in the inaugural issue of The Journal of Gods and Monsters, we are exploring this displacement and the role of religious traditions in its construction, maintenance, and complication. Such beings labeled as monsters might be displaced from biology, such as the cynocephalic protagonist of the Greek Life of St. Christopher. Then again, a monster’s displacement could be cultural, as seen in contemporary efforts by some Burmese Buddhists to displace and monstrosize the Rohingya minority. Or it could be soteriological, like the transhistorical phenomenon of Jews and Muslims being made into monsters via their exclusion from some structures of Christian salvation.
In this special issue, we present three methodologically-diverse submissions that tackle the issue of monstrosity and displacement from a wide range of regional and temporal arenas, including 1960s West Virginia, 16th-century France, and 1940s science fiction literature. We also present reviews of new and important materials in the field of Monster Theory.
In this special issue, we present three methodologically-diverse submissions that tackle the issue of monstrosity and displacement from a wide range of regional and temporal arenas, including 1960s West Virginia, 16th-century France, and 1940s science fiction literature. We also present reviews of new and important materials in the field of Monster Theory.
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Conversazioni is the EURONEWS Project's latest seminar series bringing together scholars from different disciplines and perspectives in order to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the role of the media in past and present society.... more
Conversazioni is the EURONEWS Project's latest seminar series bringing together scholars from different disciplines and perspectives in order to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the role of the media in past and present society. The aim is to promote a discussion encompassing current theoretical trends as well as the methodological challenges which underlie this research field. It will host one talk per month by researchers involved in projects relevant to EURONEWS' research agenda. Conversazioni aims to promote sociability and intellectual exchange among researchers, especially those at early career stages whose work has been most impacted by current public health related concerns. The Conversazioni series offers a safe and dynamic space for testing ideas, receiving feedback and developing further research perspectives. The series will be held in mixed form (virtual and in situ) and the discussions will be featured on the EURONEWS website either in written reports or recordings.(https://www.euronewsproject.org/workshops/conversazioni/)
The EURONEWS Project is funded by the Irish Research Council.
The EURONEWS Project is funded by the Irish Research Council.
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This is a review of James Simpson's most recent book, 'Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism'. I highlight how Liberalism was actually grounded in illiberalism and quasi-dictatorial religious regimes.... more
This is a review of James Simpson's most recent book, 'Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism'. I highlight how Liberalism was actually grounded in illiberalism and quasi-dictatorial religious regimes. Simpson proposes thought-provoking analyses of important seventeenth-century authors, such as John Donne and George Herbert.