Whatmore Richard - A Companion to Intellectual History

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Edited by

Richard Whatmore
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Brian Young

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Manuela Albertone is Professor of Early Modern History in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin, Italy and Chercheur associ, Institut dHistoire de la Rvolution franaise, Universit Paris 1 Panthon Sorbonne. Her work focuses on eighteenth-century French and American history, and the relationship between politics and economics. She is a Physiocracy specialist and is particularly interested in the economic origins of political representation. She is the author of numerous books and articles, the most recent of which is National Identity and the Agrarian Republic. The Transatlantic Commerce of Ideas between America and France (17501830) (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). She co-edited with Antonino De Francesco, Rethinking the Atlantic World. Europe and America in the Age of Democratic Revolutions (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Edward Baring is Assistant Professor in Modern European Intellectual History at Drew University. He is the author of The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 19451968 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), which won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for Best Book in Intellectual History, and editor with Peter E. Gordon of The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion (New York: Fordham, 2014). He is currently working on a Europe-wide history of phenomenology in the first half of the twentieth century.

David Burchell is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Western Sydney and has written on early modern political thought and the histories of ethics, citizenship and religious toleration. He is also a regular contributor to current social and political debates in the national and international media.

John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law and Director of the Centre for Legal History in the University of Edinburgh. His research interests lie in legal education and the legal profession (particularly in Enlightenment Scotland), eighteenth-century slavery and the legal history of Louisiana. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.