Passions, politics and the limits of society / Heikki Haara, Koen Stapelbroek, Mikko Immanen.

Intellectual History and Helsinki: Editorial Introduction -- 1 The State of Intellectual History: Local and Global -- Part I Inclusion and Exclusion in the History of Ideas -- 2 Inventing “Humanity”: Early-Modern Perspectives -- 3 Human Rights and their Realisation in the World: Herder’s Debate with Kant -- 4 Pierre Gassendi and the Humanist Case for a Vegetarian Diet -- 5 Enlightenment Historical Writing and the Expulsion of England’s Jews -- 6 The Encyclopedism of the Russian Enlightenment in the History of Ideas -- 7 David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and the Possibility of an Inclusive Moral Dialogue -- 8 Neither Citizens nor Slaves: The Aporetic Condition of Modern Citizenship -- Part II Natural Law, Political Economy and History: Essays in Honour of Kari Saastamoinen -- Preface: Kari Saastamoinen – An Appreciation -- 9 The Problem of Sociability after Hobbes: Pufendorf and Locke on the Politics of Recognition -- 10 Pierre Nicole and amour-propre -- 11 Hutcheson’s Ambivalence about the Passions: Must Virtue and Fittingness Come Apart? -- 12 Pufendorf’s Sociability in (Italian) Translation -- 13 Rethinking the Pursuit of Happiness – Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi’s Critique of Paternal Rule -- 14 An Empire of Renewed Ambitions: Political Economy and National Character in the Travels (1782) of William Macintosh -- 15 How Ideology Became Isms: A History of a Conceptual Coupling

The 1st part of the volume engages with the theme of inclusion and exclusion in the history of ideas from different perspectives. The 2nd part of the volume discusses debates on natural law, human nature and political economy in early-modern Europe. Its contributions explore the sorts of political and moral visions that were relevant in post-Hobbesian moral philosophy and the development of economic thought.