Crisis and renewal in the history of European political thought / / edited by Cesare Cuttica and Laszlo Kontler ; with Clara Maier.

• Superior document: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; Volume 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Cuttica, Cesare,; Kontler, László,; Maier, Clara,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: History of European political and constitutional thought ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: This volume is based on a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Conference organised by the European Society for the History of Political Thought which took place at the University of Heidelberg from October 11-13, 2018.

This volume explores the complex theme of crisis in European political thought from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It investigates the innovations in political thought that sprang from crisis, as well as the conceptual challenges thinkers faced when dealing with the devastation wrought by spiritual, economic and political crises. In so doing, Crisis and Renewal also examines the ways in which crisis often became the site of renewal. As an object of theoretical reflection, and as a pivotal element of our vocabulary, the notion of crisis is often applied, indiscriminately and without clarity, to a huge variety of domains.This volume provides a historically informed analysis of what it means to reflect on and theorise about crisis. Contributors are: Erica Benner, Niall Bond, Nathaniel Boyd, Andrea Catanzaro, Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, Alberto Clerici, Cesare Cuttica, Annalisa Furia, George Gallwey, Kai Gräf, Ferenc Hörcher, Paschalis M. Kitromilides, László Kontler, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Clara Maier, Janine Murphy, Adrian O'Connor, and Mark Somos.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Cesare Cuttica, László Kontler and Clara Maier -- PART 1 -- Conceptualising Crisis -- 1 What Does κρίσις Entail? The Problem of 'Decision and/or Judgement' in Plato's Republic and Laws -- Andrea Catanzaro -- 2 Critique and Crisis in Context: Rereading Reinhart Koselleck's Interpretation of the Enlightenment -- Kai Gräf -- PART 2 -- Critical Moments -- 3 Crisis as a Motivation for Innovative Reflection in Ancient and Modern Political Thought -- Paschalis M. Kitromilides -- 4 Pathologies of Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Athens and Florence -- Erica Benner -- 5 Democracy and Crisis in the 1640s in England: The Ochlocratic Moment -- Cesare Cuttica -- 6 The Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy and the Renewal of the Foundations of Early-Modern Neapolitan Political Thought: The Nation as a New Political Actor -- Adriana Luna-Fabritius -- 7 From Regeneration to Resignation: "Crisis" and Crises in Revolutionary France -- Adrian O'Connor -- 8 Treating Revolutionary Sickness. Crisis and the Formative Years of German Liberalism (1834-1866) -- Janine T. Murphy -- PART 3 -- Escaping Crisis -- 9 Houses Without Cities: The Dialectic of Political Crisis and Familial Resilience -- Mark Somos -- 10 Overcoming a Crisis in an Early Modern Urban Context. Althusius on Concord and Prudence -- Ferenc Hörcher -- 11 Alexander Hamilton on Crises of Sovereignty and the Oeconomy of Public Credit (1775-1791) -- George Gallwey -- PART 4 -- Crisis and Thinkers -- 12 In publicis malis. Justus Lipsius and the 'Double Face' of Neostoicism in the European Wars of Religion -- Alberto Clerici -- 13 The Constitution of Crisis: Politics, Decline and Decision in Hegel's Verfassungsschrift -- Nathaniel Boyd -- 14 Philosophies of History as Responses to Crises: Ferdinand Tönnies' -- Community and Society -- Niall Bond -- 15 Crisis and Vulnerability in Hannah Arendt's Political Thought: Political Action, Judgment and the Figure of the 'Conscious Pariah' -- Annalisa Furia -- 16 Civilisations and Political Elites in Critical Times: The Perspectives of Arnold J. Toynbee and Samuel P. Huntington -- Patricia Chiantera-Stutte -- Index.