Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought

Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Notes on Contributors 11 Introduction • Cesare Cuttica, László Kontler and Clara Maier 16 Part 1: Conceptualising Crisis 38 1 What Does κρίσις Entail? The Problem of ‘Decision and/ or Judgement’ in Plato’s Republic and Laws • Andrea Catanzaro 40 2 Critique and Crisis in Context: Rereading Reinhart Koselleck’s Interpretation of the Enlightenment • Kai Gräf 59 Part 2: Critical Moments 78 3 Crisis as a Motivation for Innovative Reflection in Ancient and Modern Political Thought • Paschalis M. Kitromilides 80 4 Pathologies of Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Athens and Florence • Erica Benner 100 5 Democracy and Crisis in the 1640s in England: The Ochlocratic Moment • Cesare Cuttica 121 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 142 7 From Regeneration to Resignation: “Crisis” and Crises in Revolutionary France • Adrian O’Connor 164 8 Treating Revolutionary Sickness. Crisis and the Formative Years of German Liberalism (1834–1866) • Janine T. Murphy 186 Part 3: Escaping Crisis 208 9 Houses Without Cities: The Dialectic of Political Crisis and Familial Resilience • Mark Somos 210 10 Overcoming Crisis in an Early Modern Urban Context. Althusius on Concord and Prudence • Ferenc Hörcher 229 11 Alexander Hamilton on Crises of Sovereignty and the Oeconomy of Public Credit (1775–1791) • George Gallwey 250 Part 4: Crisis and Thinkers 272 12 In publicis malis. Justus Lipsius and the ‘Double Face’ of Neostoicism in the European Wars of Religion • Alberto Clerici 274 13 The Constitution of Crisis: Politics, Decline and Decision in Hegel’s Verfassungsschrift • Nathaniel Boyd 295 14 Philosophies of History as Responses to Crises: Ferdinand Tönnies’ Community and Society • Niall Bond 318 15 Crisis and Vulnerability in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought: Political Action, Judgment and the Figure of the ‘Conscious Pariah’ • Annalisa Furia 343 16 Civilisations and Political Elites in Critical Times: The Perspectives of Arnold J. Toynbee and Samuel P. Huntington • Patricia Chiantera-Stutte 363 Index 386 "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 brings to the fore a historically informed look on 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"-- Provided by publisher. 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