Enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, revolution and counter-revolution; A eurosceptical enquiry

History of Political Thought

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 125-139

  Pocock, J G A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. 1 See, e.g. David Armitage, 'Greater Britain: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?', American Historical Review (forthcoming).
2. 2 Franco Venturi, Settecento Riformatore (Turin, Vol. I, 1969; II, 1976; III, 1979; IV (1 and 2), 1984; V (1), 1987). English translation of Vols. III and IV, R. Burr Litchfield, The End of the Old Regime in Europe (3 vols., Princeton, 1989-91).
3. 2 Franco Venturi, Settecento Riformatore (Turin, Vol. I, 1969; II, 1976; III, 1979; IV (1 and 2), 1984; V (1), 1987). English translation of Vols. III and IV, R. Burr Litchfield, The End of the Old Regime in Europe (3 vols., Princeton, 1989-91).
4. 2 Franco Venturi, Settecento Riformatore (Turin, Vol. I, 1969; II, 1976; III, 1979; IV (1 and 2), 1984; V (1), 1987). English translation of Vols. III and IV, R. Burr Litchfield, The End of the Old Regime in Europe (3 vols., Princeton, 1989-91).
5. 2 Franco Venturi, Settecento Riformatore (Turin, Vol. I, 1969; II, 1976; III, 1979; IV (1 and 2), 1984; V (1), 1987). English translation of Vols. III and IV, R. Burr Litchfield, The End of the Old Regime in Europe (3 vols., Princeton, 1989-91).
6. 2 Franco Venturi, Settecento Riformatore (Turin, Vol. I, 1969; II, 1976; III, 1979; IV (1 and 2), 1984; V (1), 1987). English translation of Vols. III and IV, R. Burr Litchfield, The End of the Old Regime in Europe (3 vols., Princeton, 1989-91).
7. 2 Franco Venturi, Settecento Riformatore (Turin, Vol. I, 1969; II, 1976; III, 1979; IV (1 and 2), 1984; V (1), 1987). English translation of Vols. III and IV, R. Burr Litchfield, The End of the Old Regime in Europe (3 vols., Princeton, 1989-91).
8. 3 Franco Venturi, Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1971), pp. 132-4.
9. 4 Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (London, 1981); J.G.A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce; The Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Età del Lumi: studi storica sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, ed. R. Ajello et al. (Naples, 1985); Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate literati of Edinburgh (Princeton, 1985); John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1989) and Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge, 1994); Peter Harrison, 'Religion ' and the Religious in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990); B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford, 1998).
10. 4 Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (London, 1981); J.G.A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce; The Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Età del Lumi: studi storica sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, ed. R. Ajello et al. (Naples, 1985); Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate literati of Edinburgh (Princeton, 1985); John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1989) and Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge, 1994); Peter Harrison, 'Religion ' and the Religious in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990); B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford, 1998).
11. 4 Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (London, 1981); J.G.A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce; The Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Età del Lumi: studi storica sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, ed. R. Ajello et al. (Naples, 1985); Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate literati of Edinburgh (Princeton, 1985); John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1989) and Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge, 1994); Peter Harrison, 'Religion ' and the Religious in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990); B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford, 1998).
12. 4 Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (London, 1981); J.G.A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce; The Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Età del Lumi: studi storica sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, ed. R. Ajello et al. (Naples, 1985); Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate literati of Edinburgh (Princeton, 1985); John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1989) and Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge, 1994); Peter Harrison, 'Religion ' and the Religious in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990); B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford, 1998).
13. 4 Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (London, 1981); J.G.A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce; The Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Età del Lumi: studi storica sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, ed. R. Ajello et al. (Naples, 1985); Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate literati of Edinburgh (Princeton, 1985); John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1989) and Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge, 1994); Peter Harrison, 'Religion ' and the Religious in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990); B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford, 1998).
14. 4 Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (London, 1981); J.G.A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce; The Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Età del Lumi: studi storica sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, ed. R. Ajello et al. (Naples, 1985); Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate literati of Edinburgh (Princeton, 1985); John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1989) and Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge, 1994); Peter Harrison, 'Religion ' and the Religious in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990); B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford, 1998).
15. 4 Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (London, 1981); J.G.A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce; The Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Età del Lumi: studi storica sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, ed. R. Ajello et al. (Naples, 1985); Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate literati of Edinburgh (Princeton, 1985); John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1989) and Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge, 1994); Peter Harrison, 'Religion ' and the Religious in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990); B.W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford, 1998).
16. 5 J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion: Enlightened History and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon (Cambridge, 1999).
17. 6 The Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. J.E. Norton (London, 1956), Vol. 3, pp. 161,167-8, 176, 183-5, 216 (on Burke), 227, 229-30, 257-8.
18. 7 See in particular Burke's Letters on a Regicide Peace; J.G.A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 208-10; and The French Revolution and the Creation of Modem Political Culture, Vol. 3, ed. Francois Furet and Mona Ozouf (Oxford, 1989), pp. 31-5, 42-3.
19. 7 See in particular Burke's Letters on a Regicide Peace; J.G.A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 208-10; and The French Revolution and the Creation of Modem Political Culture, Vol. 3, ed. Francois Furet and Mona Ozouf (Oxford, 1989), pp. 31-5, 42-3.
20. 7 See in particular Burke's Letters on a Regicide Peace; J.G.A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 208-10; and The French Revolution and the Creation of Modem Political Culture, Vol. 3, ed. Francois Furet and Mona Ozouf (Oxford, 1989), pp. 31-5, 42-3.
21. 8 Pocock, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, chs. 1, 3.
22. 9 Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, Vol. II: Narratives of Civil Government (Cambridge, forthcoming).
23. 10 Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilisation on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Stanford, 1994).
24. 11 The subtitles of Vols. III and IV of Venturi's Settecento Riformatore.
25. 12 For this concept, as central to Koselleck's Begriffsgeschichte, see Melvin Richter, The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introduction (New York, 1995), pp. 36-8.
26. 12 For this concept, as central to Koselleck's Begriffsgeschichte, see Melvin Richter, The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introduction (New York, 1995), pp. 36-8.
27. 13 Professor Burns will recollect a seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library, when he remarked that it was his duty to persuade me that Bentham was a human being, and I replied that I should be glad to be convinced that he was not a monster from inner space.
28. 14 For the idea of a counter-revolutionary turn, in response to the American rather than the French revolution, see Ch. 8 of The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800, ed. J.G.A. Pocock, Gordon J. Schochet and Lois G. Schwoerer (Cambridge, 1993); Eliga H. Gould, 'American Independence and Britain's Counter-Revolution', Past and Present, 154 (1997), pp. 107-41.
29. 14 For the idea of a counter-revolutionary turn, in response to the American rather than the French revolution, see Ch. 8 of The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800, ed. J.G.A. Pocock, Gordon J. Schochet and Lois G. Schwoerer (Cambridge, 1993); Eliga H. Gould, 'American Independence and Britain's Counter-Revolution', Past and Present, 154 (1997), pp. 107-41.
30. 15 Several of Berlin's key writings on this theme - 'The Counter-Enlightenment' (1980), 'Herder and the Enlightenment' (1976), 'The Hedgehog and the Fox' (1978) - are collected in Isaiah Berlin, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer, The Proper Study of Mankind (London, 1997; New York, 1998).
31. 15 Several of Berlin's key writings on this theme - 'The Counter-Enlightenment' (1980), 'Herder and the Enlightenment' (1976), 'The Hedgehog and the Fox' (1978) - are collected in Isaiah Berlin, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer, The Proper Study of Mankind (London, 1997; New York, 1998).
32. 15 Several of Berlin's key writings on this theme - 'The Counter-Enlightenment' (1980), 'Herder and the Enlightenment' (1976), 'The Hedgehog and the Fox' (1978) - are collected in Isaiah Berlin, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer, The Proper Study of Mankind (London, 1997; New York, 1998).
33. 15 Several of Berlin's key writings on this theme - 'The Counter-Enlightenment' (1980), 'Herder and the Enlightenment' (1976), 'The Hedgehog and the Fox' (1978) - are collected in Isaiah Berlin, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer, The Proper Study of Mankind (London, 1997; New York, 1998).
34. 16 See further Isaiah Berlin, Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (London, 1976) and Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (London, 1979).
35. 16 See further Isaiah Berlin, Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (London, 1976) and Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (London, 1979).
36. 17 John Millar, Historical View of the English Government (London, 1818), Vol. II, pp. 429-30, n.
37. 18 Knud Haakonssen, The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith (Cambridge, 1981).
38. 19 The Essai sur l'Etude de la Littérature is to be found in The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, ed. Lord Sheffield (London, 1814), Vol. IV, pp. 1-94. A modern edition is desirable. For Gibbon on the Encyclopédie see Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley (London, 1994), Vol. I, p. 765 (ch. XX, n. 130, the concluding footnote).
39. 19 The Essai sur l'Etude de la Littérature is to be found in The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, ed. Lord Sheffield (London, 1814), Vol. IV, pp. 1-94. A modern edition is desirable. For Gibbon on the Encyclopédie see Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley (London, 1994), Vol. I, p. 765 (ch. XX, n. 130, the concluding footnote).
40. 20 Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life, ed. Georges A. Bonnard (New York, 1969), p. 99.
41. 21 See Anthony J. La Vopa, 'Herder's Publikum: Language, Print and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Germany', Eighteenth-Century Studies, XXIX(1) (1995), pp. 5-24.
42. 22 For recent work on this subject, see Bianca Fontana, Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind (Cambridge, 1991); Martin Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes (London, 1995).
43. 22 For recent work on this subject, see Bianca Fontana, Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind (Cambridge, 1991); Martin Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes (London, 1995).
44. 23 Larry Siedentop, François Guizot: The History of Civilization in Europe (London, 1997).
45. 24 Guizot, ed. Siedentop, pp. 228-31.
46. 25 For the background to Hume on France and England, see particularly Nicholas Phillipson, Hume (London, 1989); Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, ed. Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, 1993), Chs. 14-16; and Phillipson in The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800, ed. Pocock, Schochet and Schwoerer, pp. 240-5.
47. 25 For the background to Hume on France and England, see particularly Nicholas Phillipson, Hume (London, 1989); Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, ed. Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, 1993), Chs. 14-16; and Phillipson in The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800, ed. Pocock, Schochet and Schwoerer, pp. 240-5.
48. 25 For the background to Hume on France and England, see particularly Nicholas Phillipson, Hume (London, 1989); Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, ed. Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, 1993), Chs. 14-16; and Phillipson in The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800, ed. Pocock, Schochet and Schwoerer, pp. 240-5.
49. 26 Guizot, ed. Siedentop, pp. 231-45; Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France, ed. Richard A. Lebrun (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 9, 21-2.
50. 26 Guizot, ed. Siedentop, pp. 231-45; Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France, ed. Richard A. Lebrun (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 9, 21-2.
51. 27 John Morrow, Coleridge's Political Thought: Property, Morality and the Limits of Traditional Discourse (London, 1990); Coleridge's Writings on Political Society, ed. John Morrow (Princeton, 1991), pp. 152-220.
52. 27 John Morrow, Coleridge's Political Thought: Property, Morality and the Limits of Traditional Discourse (London, 1990); Coleridge's Writings on Political Society, ed. John Morrow (Princeton, 1991), pp. 152-220.
53. 28 Michael J. Mendle, Dangerous Positions: Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Answer to the XIX Propositions (Alabama, 1985); C.C. Weston and J.R. Greenberg, Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England (Cambridge, 1981).
54. 28 Michael J. Mendle, Dangerous Positions: Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Answer to the XIX Propositions (Alabama, 1985); C.C. Weston and J.R. Greenberg, Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England (Cambridge, 1981).
55. 29 Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Indianapolis, 1987), p. 51.
56. 30 Morrow, Coleridge's Political Thought, pp. 158-9, 163-4.
57. 31 Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow, That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History (Cambridge, 1983), p. 144; J.W. Burrow, Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought (Oxford, 1988), passim.
58. 31 Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow, That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History (Cambridge, 1983), p. 144; J.W. Burrow, Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought (Oxford, 1988), passim.
59. 32 Deborah Wormell, Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History (Cambridge, 1980); Eliga H. Gould, 'A Virtual Nation: Greater Britain and the British Implications of the American Revolution', American Historical Review (forthcoming).
60. 32 Deborah Wormell, Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History (Cambridge, 1980); Eliga H. Gould, 'A Virtual Nation: Greater Britain and the British Implications of the American Revolution', American Historical Review (forthcoming).
61. 33 Tom Nairn, The Breakup of Britain (London, 1981); Tom Nairn, Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (London, 1997). Cf. Raphael Samuel, Island Stories: Unravelling Britain: Theatres of Memory, Volume II, ed. Alison Light with Sally Alexander and Gareth Stedman Jones (London, 1998). See also Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes.
62. 33 Tom Nairn, The Breakup of Britain (London, 1981); Tom Nairn, Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (London, 1997). Cf. Raphael Samuel, Island Stories: Unravelling Britain: Theatres of Memory, Volume II, ed. Alison Light with Sally Alexander and Gareth Stedman Jones (London, 1998). See also Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes.
63. 33 Tom Nairn, The Breakup of Britain (London, 1981); Tom Nairn, Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (London, 1997). Cf. Raphael Samuel, Island Stories: Unravelling Britain: Theatres of Memory, Volume II, ed. Alison Light with Sally Alexander and Gareth Stedman Jones (London, 1998). See also Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes.
64. 33 Tom Nairn, The Breakup of Britain (London, 1981); Tom Nairn, Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (London, 1997). Cf. Raphael Samuel, Island Stories: Unravelling Britain: Theatres of Memory, Volume II, ed. Alison Light with Sally Alexander and Gareth Stedman Jones (London, 1998). See also Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes.