Thomas Lalevée
@thomaslalevee.bsky.social
Researcher at ANU, based in Melbourne. Working on a book on early French social science. Gustave Gimon Fellow in Political Economy at Stanford (2024-25) https://anu-au.academia.edu/ThomasLalevee
Men explain Epstein to me: “This is the story I could tell on a podcast –although in telling it I might become incoherent with rage or start crying. Men don’t really need to hear this from me anyway; all they need to do is listen to the women around them.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susan Pedersen · Diary: Men explain Epstein to me
A girl doesn’t have to fall into Epstein’s clutches to see sexual abuse up close, and if she gets through childhood...
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First day as a Postdoctoral Fellow @UNSW Excited to begin my new project on Medical Utopias in the 19th century
I was today years old when I found out they were originally called Baby Gays before being rebranded Q-tips Baby Gays Ping @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
New issue of EJHET just published - including my review of the first full edition of Saint-Simon's correspondence (1782-1825)
Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay@mdtremblay.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe new issue of EJHET contains in-depth reviews of the new translation of Marx’s Capital, the Correspondance of Saint-Simon, as well as a book by Plouviez on French debates on inheritance in the 19th century, and one by Mbeki on Kalecki @thomaslalevee.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...
Very pleased to announce that, as of April next year, I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at UNSW - and working on my new project: "Medical Utopias in the French and Anglophone Worlds, c. 1840-1890"
The whole point of Dawn of Everything is that no 1 thing predetermines how human society is organised or structured & we have a much greater degree of agency to create different ways of living/being - at least more than traditional social science (and grifters like Harare) would have us assume
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9mo agoAlso my understanding is that the Graeber book is pretty good? I know academics have criticisms but I haven't seen anything like the critiques of Harari or Diamond, where the entire premise of entire chapters is laughably false.
One Host Theory
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 11mo agosome professional news: due to various insensitive comments made in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, I have fired @michaelhobbes.bsky.social from the If Books Could Kill podcast. the show will continue as usual, with me playing the role of both michael and peter
Great roundtable review on After Kant in @HDiplo - with contributions from M. C. Behrent, A. Jainchill & Eva Piirimäe & a reply by M. Sonenscher Sonenscher: “Events begin and end, but ideas have fuzzier or more porous boundaries.” issforum.org/roundtables/... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-50 on Sonenscher, After Kant
28 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-50 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Michael Behrent Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…
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In my forthcoming but so far only half written book…!
Cambridge methodology primer: “One of my aims in writing about the long debate over how to think about the concept of civil liberty was to ask whether those who eventually lost the battle may nevertheless have won the argument. To change the metaphor, I have been in quest of buried treasure.”
Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · last yr.1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) & @tomaashby.bsky.social (@utokyoofficial.bsky.social), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first at GIH! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This looks fascinating. Thanks @tomaashby.bsky.social
Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · last yr.1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) & @tomaashby.bsky.social (@utokyoofficial.bsky.social), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first at GIH! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
First episode with Richard Whatmore: “Can intellectual history save liberty?” @roots-and-branches.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...
#1 Richard Whatmore, can Intellectual History save liberty?
Podcast Episode · Roots and Branches · 01/07/2025 · 1 sec
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New review of Michael Sonenscher’s Capitalism contains this absolute gem (That the review is by an economist makes the claim even more farcical) www.independent.org/tir/2025-sum...
Thanks Cayce! Full text also available here: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/e67128...
From Perfectibility to Progress: The Search for a Science of Society in France, 1750-1850
The early nineteenth century was a defining moment in the emergence of new, future-oriented visions of human progress. This thesis analyses this development of modern thought through a particular case...
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For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English) undpress.nd.edu/978026820325... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
Alasdair MacIntyre
This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinki...
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Didn’t quite expect this - but Richard Whatmore’s reply includes an usually candid discussion of Istvan Hont, post-colonial studies and neo-Marxist historiographies @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0191...
The End of Enlightenment: A Reply to My Critics
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Link to my talk next week at the Stanford Green library: "Before Durkheim: Early French Social Science and the Politics of Progress" events.stanford.edu/event/thomas... @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
Post-print and free to read copy of my review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (2025) by Matthew McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social www.academia.edu/128955801/Th...
The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, by Matthew McManus in Global Intellectual History (2025)
Liberalism and socialism are usually taken to be ideological foes. Each associated with a different intellectual canon and a set of distinct and, at times, virulently antagonistic evangelists, these t...
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Here is a link to a free copy of the review (for the first 50 users): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D2QRN... FYI @mattpolprof.bsky.social
The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Thomas Lalevée@thomaslalevee.bsky.social · last yr.My review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism is out in Global Intellectual History - with some thoughts at the end on what a more contextual approach might bring to our understanding of this political tradition doi.org/10.1080/2380... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @global-ih.bsky.social
Appreciate this thoughtful review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" by @thomaslalevee.bsky.social. Appreciate being called a "generous and conscientious" scholar. pbs.twimg.com/media/Goxj5Z...
My review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism is out in Global Intellectual History - with some thoughts at the end on what a more contextual approach might bring to our understanding of this political tradition doi.org/10.1080/2380... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @global-ih.bsky.social
The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Nice to see Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare: Conditional Citizenship in Historical Perspective online and open access. @fia-c-s.bsky.social and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir are model academics who organised a generative workshop from which these papers emerged: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🗃️
Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare
This open access book examines disenfranchisement in liberal democracies worldwide, before and after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage.
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