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Searching for 'Moderate Enlightenment': From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock (2024)
Journal Article
Mithen, N. (in press). Searching for 'Moderate Enlightenment': From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock. History of European ideas, https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2319392

The meaning of ‘moderate enlightenment’ has been monopolised by Jonathan Israel. In this guise, ‘moderate enlightenment’ is built atop a compromise between authority and innovation, between reason and revelation, and amounts to an intellectually subo... Read More about Searching for 'Moderate Enlightenment': From Leo Strauss to J. G. A. Pocock.

Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment (2023)
Journal Article
Mithen, N. (2023). Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment. European legacy, 28(3-4), 274-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2170029

This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw this out it reconstructs an “encounter” between two citizens of the scholarly Republic of Letters in the years around 1700—Lodovico Antonio Muratori an... Read More about Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment.