Bodin Now; or, What's Wrong with Intellectual History?

JAMES RENTON; Anya Topolski

doi:10.1080/1462317X.2020.1806609

Bodin Now; or, What's Wrong with Intellectual History?

JAMES RENTON
, Anya Topolski

History, Geography & Social Sciences

Radboud University Nijmegen

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Abstract

As we write, the demand for justice of Black Lives Matter rings in the ears of the academy: pull down the statues, decolonize the canon! Seemingly against that grain, especially for scholars of racism, we are nonetheless publishing this collection of articles on one of the towering figures of white privileged male Western thought: Jean Bodin (1529/1530–1596), the French philosopher, jurist, historian, economist, whose definition of sovereignty as the power of the State was one of the defining contributions to political thought in occidental Europe in the midst of its bloody civil wars, and the beginnings of colonialism overseas. How can our publication be justified at this moment?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	475
Number of pages	478
Journal	Political Theology
Volume	21
Issue number	6
Early online date	21 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1806609
Publication status	Published - 21 Aug 2020

Keywords

sovereignty
Race
Early Modern
Intellectual history

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'The Figure of the Fanatic: A Rebel Against Christian Sovereignty'.
Renton, J., 26 Sept 2018, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41, 12, p. 2161-2178 18 p.
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The global order of Muslim surveillance and its thought architecture.
RENTON, J., 26 Sept 2018, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41, 12, p. 2125-2143 19 p.
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The End of the Semites
Renton, J., 5 Apr 2017, Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story?. Renton, J. & Gidley, B. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 99-140 42 p.
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