Essays in the history of ideas

The historiography of ideas

The supposed primitivism of Rousseau's Discourse on inequality

Monboddo and Rousseau

"Pride" in eighteenth century thought

"Nature" as aesthetic norm

The parallel of deism and classicism

The Chinese origin of a romanticism

The first Gothic revival and the return to nature

Herder and the Enlightenment philosophy of history

The meaning of "romantic" in early German romanticism

Schiller and the genesis of German romanticism

On the discrimination of romanticisms

Coleridge and Kant's two worlds

Milton and the paradox of the fortunate fall

The communism of St. Ambrose

"Nature" as norm in Tertullian.