Locke and Hate Speech Law by J. K. Numao

“…While commentaries by constitutional experts and jurists abound in the press, and by legal and political philosophers in academia, it is remarkable that there is far less contribution from students of history of political thought and intellectual history, especially of the early modern era, considering how largely the theme of religious toleration and intolerance featured in this period. …”
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Book Reviews by Claudia García-Minguillán, Enrico Pasini, Francesco Tomaso Scaiola

“…Viaggiatori europei tra i popoli nativi nel Nord America del Settecento, Viella 2022; Baldassarri & Zampieri (eds.), Scientiae in the History of Medicine, L’erma di Bretschneider 2021; Martin, The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19, Ethics Press 2023; Whatmore, The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford UP 2021; Bussotti & Lotti, Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas, Springer Nature 2022. …”
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‘Green’ Malthus? A Bibliographical Itinerary between neo-Malthusianism and Environmentalism by Jacopo Bonasera

“…It is argued that more researches into Malthus’ legacy over time could grant significant theoretical gains both for the history of political thought, and its entanglments with the history of environmentalism.…”
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John A. Hobson. Un liberalismo eretico contro la supremazia dello spirito economico by Roberta Ferrari

“…The analysis of these aspects of his work shows his importance for the history of political thought also beyond his famous study on imperialism and shows the rise of a new concept of liberal democracy, bringing into light its problems and contradictions.…”
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Visioni anarchiche, immaginari islamici. Uno studio sugli isomorfismi spirituali tra l’anarchismo e l’Islam by Parissa Oskorouchi

“…This article aims to offer an overview on how Islamic anarchism can be conceptualized into the field of the history of political thought. This study is divided into three parts: a preliminary analysis of the relationship between the anarchist thought and the monotheistic conception of God, together with a focus on the anarchist orientalist visions on Islam. …”
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New Focuses, Dogmas, Heresies and Reckonings. An Approximate Map of Spanish Communist Thought in Exile. by Juan Andrade Blanco

“…All of this is addressed from the perspective of the new history of political thought and the intellectual history which together stress how these become woven, beyond their individual authorship, into the core of the social, political and cultural conflicts of an age.…”
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The expediency of kingdom in Iranian political Thought by Seyyed Ali MirMousavi

“…The concept of expediency is an important and common concept in the history of political thought. Viewing the political legacy remained from ancient Iran and drawing an analogy of which with the literary works remained from the Islamic era, one can perceive that “expediency of the kingdom” is a central concept in the Iranian political thought. …”
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Profile of Edoardo Ruffini by Gianmarco De Angelis

“…This paper, after a brief presentation of the intellectual biography of the author, traces the themes of greatest interest in his work to a history of political thought and institutions of Italy during Middle Ages: period that Ruffini recognized as fundamental in the development of the dynamics that allowed majority principle to assert itself (even before that as a rule of law) as a practice of political action over other methods of deliberation, both within the Church and, since his very first appearances, in the ambit of communal assemblies and consulates.…”
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Rawls's teaching and the "tradition" of political philosophy by Bejan, TM

“…This neglected aspect of the “historical Rawls” offers insight into how Rawls himself might have read “John Rawls” as a figure in the history of political thought—and reveals that he spent a lot more time contemplating that question than one might think.…”

La representación parlamentaria de intereses socio-económicos en la doctrina constitucional = The parliamentary representation of socio-economicinterests in the constitutional doct... by Antonio M. García Cuadrado

“…Aunque es difícil de agrupar por corrientes ideológicas, se puede decir que pensadores socialistas, sindicalistas, anarquistas, liberales, democristianos y tradicionalistas han defendido propuestas análogas en este sentido. History of political thought shows that many authors belonging to several political stances have written about the expediency of allowing, together with universal suffrage, the vote of social-economic groups. …”
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Considerations on the Patriarcha by Shervin Moghimi Zanjani

“…The main subject of this paper is Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha which is the essential text in the history of political thought and in a sense it is one of the most important sources of the controversial debates on politics in early modern England. …”
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“The Moral Miasma of the Tropics”: American Imperialism and the Failed Annexation of the Dominican Republic, 1869-1871 by Fidel Tavárez

“…Lastly, although this paper primarily focuses on conceptual contestability, by combining some of the methodological insights of Reinhart Koselleck, Quentin Skinner and J.G.A Pocock, it also proposes a way of reconciling the history of economic structures with the contextual history of political thought.…”
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El otro centenario: La ciudad de las damas y la construcción de las mujeres como sujeto político The other centenary: The city of ladies and the construction of women as political... by Montserrat Cabré Pairet

“…<br>This article intends to reevaluate Christine de Pizan's 1405 work, The city of ladies, as a landmark in the history of political thought. In the context of its sixth centenary, it acknowledges the extent and actuality of its contribution. …”
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Av denna världen? by Anton Jansson

“…The article is located in the nexus between theology and history of political thought, and has three main aims: First, in a gen­eral sense, it discusses and applies Amos Funkenstein's idea of laymen theology and Jan-Werner Müller's notion of in-between figures. …”
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THOMAS MÜNTZER: A HISTORICAL CATALYST IN GERMAN PEASANTS WAR by Emre Taşkıran

“…In this article, Thomas Müntzer, the leading historical figure in the German Peasants War, is scrutinized in a different context within the perspective of the social history of political thought. By choosing the mainstream literature, this study has used some of the important pamphlets, letters, and secondary qualitative texts on Müntzer’s manuscripts about both the German Peasants War and his theological assertations toward the Reformation process which began with Martin Luther’s contributions to Catholic Church in 16th century. …”
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Sovereignty and Political Representation by Frank Ankersmit

“…It does so by considering the relevant aspects in the history of political thought from the Middle Ages down to the so-called doctrinaire liberals of the beginning of the 19th century. …”
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Teoria a historia: relacje między wolnością a religią. Wstęp do analizy wybranych kwestii by Wojciech Szabaciuk

“…Author pay a special attention to interpretative a history of political thought and philosophy of Middle Ages, especially in the sphere of defense of personal liberties and also the critic of absolutistic power in the political actions and political theory. …”
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The Biblical Image of the Providential Ruler in the Protestant Propaganda on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion by Andrei Constantin Sălăvăstru

“…French Protestantism has remained famous in the history of political thought mostly for its theories regarding popular sovereignty and the right of the people to resist and replace a tyrannical ruler. …”
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GREEK MODELS AND LITERARY SOURCES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ITALY AS SIGN OF ITS BENT TO UNIVERSAL RULE IN DE ARCHITECTURA OF VITRUVIUS (VI 1, 1-11) by Marco Martin

“…Vitruvius, in his excursus of VI 1, 1-11, is the heir to an old cultural tradition between philosophy of history and political thought from Greek paideia inside of Mecenate’s circle.…”
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Considerations on the Scottish Referendum and a Discourse on the British Conundrum: Mill, Price and the Question of Nationalism by Huw Williams

“…This paper attempts to shed light on the question of nationalism, in the British context in particular, by turning to the history of political thought, and the philosophical reflections of two British liberals, Rich­ard Price and John Stuart mill. …”
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