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Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought History of European Political and Constitutional Thought Series Editors Erica Benner (Yale University) László Kontler (Central European University) Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) Associate Editors Anna Becker — Alberto Clerici — Adriana Luna- Fabritius Gaby Mahlberg — Jani Marjanen — Eva Piirimae Advisory Board Duncan Bell — Hans Blom — Annabel Brett — Lea Campos Boralevi Janet Coleman — John Dunn — Pamela Edwards — Ioannis Evrigenis Xavier Gil — David Grewal — Oleg Kharkhordin — Paschalis Kitromilides Anne Peters — Christopher Smith — Balázs Trencsényi Martin van Gelderen — Richard Whatmore volume 4 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/hepct Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought Edited by Cesare Cuttica and László Kontler, with Clara Maier LEIDEN | BOSTON This volume was published in collaboration with the European Society for the History of Political Thought, https:// europoliticalthought.wordpress.com/ Cover illustration: Der Prager Fenstersturz auf einem zeitgenössischen Flugblatt, 1618, Unknown author. Wikimedia Common. The Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available online at http:// catalog.loc.gov lc record available at http:// lccn.loc.gov/ 2021019200 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/b rill- typeface. issn 2589-5 966 isbn 978-9 0-0 4-4 6609-8 (hardback) isbn 978-9 0-0 4-4 6687-6 (e- book) Copyright 2021 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Requests for re- use and/ or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill nv via brill.com or copyright.com. This book is printed on acid- free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents A cknowledgements ix N otes on Contributors x I ntroduction 1 Cesare Cuttica, László Kontler and Clara Maier part 1 Conceptualising Crisis 1 W hat Does κρίσις Entail? The Problem of ‘Decision and/ or Judgement’ in Plato’s Republic and Laws 25 Andrea Catanzaro 2 C ritique and Crisis in Context: Rereading Reinhart Koselleck’s Interpretation of the Enlightenment 44 Kai Gräf part 2 Critical Moments 3 C risis as a Motivation for Innovative Reflection in Ancient and Modern Political Thought 65 Paschalis M. Kitromilides 4 P athologies of Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Athens and Florence 85 Erica Benner 5 D emocracy and Crisis in the 1640s in England: The Ochlocratic Moment 106 Cesare Cuttica 6 T he Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy and the Renewal of the Foundations of Early Modern Neapolitan Political Thought: The Nation as a New Political Actor 127 Adriana Luna- Fabritius vi Contents 7 F rom Regeneration to Resignation: “Crisis” and Crises in Revolutionary France 149 Adrian O’Connor 8 T reating Revolutionary Sickness. Crisis and the Formative Years of German Liberalism (1834– 1866) 171 Janine T. Murphy part 3 Escaping Crisis 9 H ouses Without Cities: The Dialectic of Political Crisis and Familial Resilience 195 Mark Somos 10 O vercoming Crisis in an Early Modern Urban Context. Althusius on Concord and Prudence 214 Ferenc Hörcher 11 A lexander Hamilton on Crises of Sovereignty and the Oeconomy of Public Credit (1775– 1791) 235 George Gallwey part 4 Crisis and Thinkers 12 I n publicis malis. Justus Lipsius and the ‘Double Face’ of Neostoicism in the European Wars of Religion 259 Alberto Clerici 13 T he Constitution of Crisis: Politics, Decline and Decision in Hegel’s Verfassungsschrift 280 Nathaniel Boyd 14 P hilosophies of History as Responses to Crises: Ferdinand Tönnies’ Community and Society 303 Niall Bond Contents vii 15 C risis and Vulnerability in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought: Political Action, Judgment and the Figure of the ‘Conscious Pariah’ 328 Annalisa Furia 16 C ivilisations and Political Elites in Critical Times: The Perspectives of Arnold J. Toynbee and Samuel P. Huntington 348 Patricia Chiantera- Stutte I ndex 371 Acknowledgements 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, ‘Crisis and Renewal in the History of Political Thought’. This event took place at the University of Heidelberg on 11–1 3 October 2018. Much of the original content of the chapters that appears here has been mod- ified, abandoned, revised. It remains clear though that the exchanges among participants at the conference proved fundamental in laying the foundations of this book and its structure. It is also undeniable that without the opportu- nity of assembling a broad pool of scholars at Heidelberg the present volume would be different, or not be at all. For this reason, we would like to thank our colleagues Susan Richter, Peter Schröder and Gregor Stiebert as well as the Executive Committee Members of the eshpt for their help. Our publisher, Brill, has been – as always – generous with financial and edi- torial support. Alessandra Giliberto, Ivo Romein, Wendel Scholma and Arjan van Dijk have shown constant faith in the project since its inception. The three anonymous peer reviewers of the volume set us straight on a few issues, and we are very grateful to them for this. Last but not least, a sincere ‘thank you’ is reserved for Clara Maier, who contributed to writing the Introduction with us and participated in the initial phases of the editorial work. It is certain that without her precious input, the whole outcome would be a much weaker achievement. Ultimately, we hope that given the theoretical complexity and historical richness of the two key topics of our enterprise, ‘crisis and renewal’, readers might find the strength and the novelty of the current volume both in its the- matic and in its chronological approach. We also hope that they might enjoy the diverse range of interpretations advanced in it as the result of the unusu- ally diverse academic backgrounds of its contributors. Budapest and Helsinki, May 2021
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