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- Origins of the other: Emmanuel Levinas between revelation and ethics.Samuel Moyn -2005 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.True Bergsonianism : beginnings of a philosopher -- The controversy over intersubjectivity -- Nazism and crisis : the interruption of a trajectory -- Totaliter aliter : revelation in interwar thought -- Levinas's discovery of the other in the making of French existentialism -- The ethical turn : philosophy and Judaism in the Cold War.
- Origins of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics.Samuel Moyn -2005 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 61 (1):57-59.
- Savage and Modern Liberty.Samuel Moyn -2005 -European Journal of Political Theory 4 (2):164-187.This article is a study of the trajectory of the contemporary French liberal philosopher Marcel Gauchet from his early, ‘anarchist’ commitments through the 1970s to his discovery and defense of liberalism, notably as expressed in his 1980 revival and interpretation of his 19th-century countryman Benjamin Constant’s post-revolutionary liberalism. Discussed in the article are Gauchet’s devotion to and revision of the portrait of primitive society he inherited from the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres, how his early political and theoretical concerns are transmuted (...) in Gauchet’s reading of Constant, and the relevance of this trajectory for comprehending even Gauchet’s most recent pronouncements about the nature and future of liberal society. (shrink)
- Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times.Samuel Moyn -2023 - London: Yale University Press.By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era--among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling--transformed (...) liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his iconoclastic style, Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophy--a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism."--Dust jacket. (shrink)
- Hannah Arendt on the secular.Samuel Moyn -manuscriptThis paper shows that Hannah Arendt was a theorist both of secularization as a process and the secular as a goal of modern politics. It reconstructs these arguments in her corpus, especially her book "On Revolution," and argues that this dimension of her work may have been a response to Carl Schmitt (and is in any event now usefully read in such a way). The paper ends by examining how Arendt might reply to currently influential challengers of a secular politics.
- Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division.Samuel Moyn -2012 -Constellations 19 (1):37-50.
- Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism.Samuel Moyn -2003 -Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (4):639-657.This paper is a study of the account offered by Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) of the origins of modern historical thought. It investigates the German origins of his project, offers an overview of the developments he found in historical thinking from the Hebrew Bible to the twentieth century, compares his project to existing tendencies in scholarship, and offers a critical analysis of its uses and limits. The main thesis of the paper is that Funkenstein's chief originality lay in his argument that (...) the origins of historical methods cannot be studied apart from revolutions in Western historical consciousness more generally. (shrink)
- Global Intellectual History.Samuel Moyn &Andrew Sartori (eds.) -2013 - Columbia University Press.Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline. The contributors to _Global Intellectual History_ explore the different (...) ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study. (shrink)
- Recent Books on Ethics and International Affairs.Thomas Pogge,Balakrishnan Rajagopal,Samuel Moyn,William E. Scheuerman &Joanne Bauer -2005 -Ethics and International Affairs 19 (3).
- The subject of human rights : an interview with Samuel Moyn.Samuel Moyn &Alexandre Lefebvre -2020 - In Danielle Celermajer & Alexandre Lefebvre,The subject of human rights. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
- The assumption by man of his original fracturing: Marcel gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the history of the self: Samuel Moyn.Samuel Moyn -2009 -Modern Intellectual History 6 (2):315-341.This essay reconstructs conceptually and situates historically contemporary French philosopher Marcel Gauchet's theory of the origins and development of modern selfhood. It argues that his history of the self as the interiorization of constitutive alienation, and of the history of self-consciousness as the progressive recognition of this alienation, originated out of a unique combination of historical factors—the radical politics of May 1968, the rise of the antipsychiatry movement, and the new psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. The essay considers Gauchet's study, together (...) with his partner Gladys Swain, of the foundations of psychiatry, and investigates the connections of their narrative of origins to Michel Foucault's work. The essay concludes by turning to Gauchet's more recent contributions and considering the implications of his history of the self for Anglo-American scholarship. (shrink)
- From experience to law: Leo Strauss and the Weimar crisis of the philosophy of religion.Samuel Moyn -2007 -History of European Ideas 33 (2):174-194.This paper is a study of the origins of Leo Strauss's thought, arguing that its early development must be understood in the context of the philosophy of religion of late Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. More specifically, it shows that Strauss's early works were written against the background of Kantian philosophy and post-Kantian accounts of religious experience, and that his turn towards medieval law as a topic and ideal was precipitated by the critique of those accounts by radical Protestant theologians writing (...) in the post-World War I era of crisis. Ironically, then, Strauss's investment in premodern Judaism—and his related rejection of modern philosophy—had important Christian origins. (shrink)
- Empathy in history, empathizing with humanity.Samuel Moyn -2006 -History and Theory 45 (3):397–415.The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust by Carolyn J. Dean History in Transit: Experience, Identity, and Critical Theory by Dominick LaCapra.
- Critical theory's generational predicament.Samuel Moyn -2023 -Constellations 30 (4):419-421.
- Jacques Maritain, Christian new order, and the birth of human rights.Samuel Moyn -manuscriptThis paper traces some changes in Catholic political theory eventually taken up and extended during World War II by Jacques Maritain, who became the foremost philosophical exponent of the idea of "human rights" on the postwar scene. I show that the invention of the idea of the "dignity of the human person" as embedded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights occurred not in biblical or other longstanding traditions, but instead in very recent and contingent history. In conclusion, I speculate (...) on what the restoration of Maritain's route to human rights to its proper contexts might suggest about the cultural meaning the idea had in postwar Continental Europe, which became its homeland. (shrink)
- Hannah Arendt among the Cold War Liberals.Samuel Moyn -2023 -Journal of the History of Ideas 84 (3):533-558.Abstract:Hannah Arendt wasn't a liberal, she repeatedly declared. Yet in a series of ways she was a fellow traveler of Cold War liberals. And caught up as she also was in neo-imperial and racist entanglements that go entirely unmentioned in promotional accounts of Cold War liberalism and have barely begun to be challenged even today, she helps cast their thought in relief. Yet there is a proviso. From another, exceptional, and unique perspective—that of their Middle Eastern politics—Cold War liberals did (...) challenge liberal Eurocentrism, following Arendt who did so more briefly. (shrink)
- After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France.Michael Behrent,David Berry,Lucia Bonfreschi,Warren Breckman,Michael Scott Christofferson,Stuart Elden,William Gallois,Ron Haas,Ethan Kleinberg,Samuel Moyn,Philippe Poirrier,Christophe Premat &Alan D. Schrift (eds.) -2004 - Lexington Books.Motivated by a desire to narrate and contextualize the deluge of "French theory," After the Deluege showcases recent work by today's brightest scholars of French intellectual history that historicizes key debates, figures, and turning points in the postwar era of French thought.
- History and Morality and Why History? A History.Samuel Moyn -2023 -Intellectual History Review 33 (2):353-355.Not since the days of Cambridge don Herbert Butterfield has an Anglophone historian so interestingly taken up the history of his own discipline and the problem of historical judgment the way that D...
- Hannah Arendt, Secularization Theory, and the Politics of Secularism.Samuel Moyn -2019 - In Willem Styfhals & Stéphane Symons,Genealogies of the Secular: The Making of Modern German Thought. SUNY Press. pp. 131-156.
- Editors' announcement.Charles Capper,Anthony La Vopa &Samuel Moyn -2011 -Modern Intellectual History 8 (2):265-265.
- 10. Anxiety and Secularization.Samuel Moyn -2012 - In Jonathan Judaken & Robert Bernasconi,Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context. Columbia University Press. pp. 279-304.No categories
- Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought.Samuel Moyn -2016 - In Jens Meierhenrich & Oliver Simons,The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt. New York, NY: Oxford University Press USA.This chapter surveys the fate of Carl Schmitt’s concept of the political in twentieth-century European thought. It starts with the main outlines of his founding text The Concept of the Political, with emphasis on conceptual ambiguities in Schmitt’s argumentation that others would identify and exploit. It then turns to a recent debate about which young German Jew—Hans Morgenthau or Leo Strauss—most influenced the revisions Schmitt made to his text between editions, concluding that the role of both has been overstated. The (...) balance of the chapter reconstructs an alternative—and in some ways opposed—French tradition of conceptualizing the political with roots in the thought of Raymond Aron. Culminating in Claude Lefort, this tradition decentered the role of enmity that Schmitt wanted to define the political, a point dramatized in conclusion with discussion of international relations theory and how the French tradition conceived of warfare and strife. (shrink)
- Democracy Past and Future.Samuel Moyn (ed.) -2006 - Cambridge University Press._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. (shrink)
- Hermann Cohen: writings on neo-Kantianism and Jewish philosophy.Samuel Moyn,Robert S. Schine &Hermann Cohen (eds.) -2021 - Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press.Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times. This newly translated collection of his writings illuminates his achievements for student readers and rectifies lapses in his intellectual reception by prior generations.No categories
- History, law, and the rediscovery of social theory.Samuel Moyn -2023 - In Richard Bourke & Quentin Skinner,History in the humanities and social sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press.Export citation
Bookmark - Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History.Samuel Moyn -2008 - In Aviezer Tucker,A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 427–436.This chapter contains sections titled: Biblical Foundations Post‐biblical Variations Modern Legacies References and Further Reading.No categories
- Judith Shklar über die Philosophie des Völkerstrafrechts.Samuel Moyn -2014 -Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62 (4).No categories
- Legal theory among the ruins.Samuel Moyn -2017 - In Justin Desautels-Stein & Christopher Tomlins,Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Le temps présent: Écrits 1945–2005 by Claude Lefort.Samuel Moyn -2009 -Constellations 16 (2):351-352.
- :Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber.Samuel Moyn -2024 -Critical Inquiry 50 (4):794-794.
- Plural cosmopolitanisms and the origins of human rights.Samuel Moyn -2014 - In Costas Douzinas & Conor Gearty,The meanings of rights: the philosophy and social theory of human rights. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights.Samuel Moyn -2016 -Contemporary Political Theory 15 (4):485-488.
- The Politics of Economy.Samuel Moyn -2002 -Ethics and International Affairs 16 (2):135-142.
- The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights.Samuel Moyn &Hans Joas -2015 - In David Kim & Susanne Kaul,Imagining Human Rights. De Gruyter. pp. 9-32.
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 in the History of Cosmopolitanism.Samuel Moyn -2014 -Critical Inquiry 40 (4):365-384.
- Intellectual History and Democracy: An Interview with Pierre Rosanvallon: Introduction.Samuel Moyn -2007 -Journal of the History of Ideas 68 (4):701-702.Brief introduction to an interview with Pierre Rosanvallon, conducted by Javier Fernández Sebastián, in Madrid, September 28, 2006.
- Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire. [REVIEW]Samuel Moyn -2018 -Political Theory 47 (2):273-278.
- Book Review:Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson’s Political Philosophy, by Alexandre Lefebvre. [REVIEW]Samuel Moyn -2015 -Political Theory 43 (3):416-420.
- Putting Liberalism in Its Place, Paul W. Kahn , 336 pp., $29.95 cloth. [REVIEW]Samuel Moyn -2005 -Ethics and International Affairs 19 (3):110-113.
- The International Human Rights Movement: A History, Aryeh Neier , 379 pp., $35 cloth. [REVIEW]Samuel Moyn -2012 -Ethics and International Affairs 26 (3):392-395.
- The Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1, Authority, Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum, eds. , 641 pp., $35 cloth. [REVIEW]Samuel A. Moyn -2001 -Ethics and International Affairs 15 (1):192-194.
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