果冻影院

Alessandro de Arcangelis is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Intellectual History. Having initially joined the department as an MA student in 2013, he now works on modern European intellectual and cultural history, with a particular focus on transnational encounters, cross-cultural exchanges, and Europe鈥檚 global entanglements. His research is especially concerned with the study of modern historical imaginations, and investigates the emergence, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of new ways of conceptualising the past, interpreting the present, and imagining the future, in connection with broader experiences of social and political change, revolutionary upheavals, and mechanisms of global integration. He is especially interested in debates on philosophy of history, the history of historiography, as well as the links between temporal concepts and the evolution of modern political ideas.听

Alessandro has recently completed work on his first monograph, entitled The Spirit of History: Vico, Hegel, and the Modern Historical Imagination, c. 1790-1870. In this work, he employs a transnational perspective to investigate the intersection of debates on Giambattista Vico and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel taking place in nineteenth-century Europe, concentrating in particular on the ways in which competing understandings of history and progress energised political debates on Revolution and national unification projects.听

His next research project will be a study of the links between environmental thinking and political thought in Prussia, c. 1770-1870.

笔丑顿:听果冻影院 (2014-18)
Title: Hegelians on the slopes of Vesuvius: a transnational study on the intellectual history of Naples, 1799-1861
Supervisors: Axel K枚rner and Avi Lifschitz (2014-17) / Angus Gowland (2017-18)

Publications

• The Spirit of the History: Vico, Hegel, and the Modern Historical Imagination, c. 1790-1870 (forthcoming)
• 鈥淭he Port of Europe. Hegel鈥檚 Geophilosophy of History and the Spirit of the Sea鈥�. In D鈥橝uria, M. & Gallo, F. (ed.) Rethinking Europe from the Mediterranean Shores. London: Routledge, pp. 37-55 (2022)
• 鈥淢odernity, Crisis, and the Changing Semantics of Historical Time. A Round Table on Emanuele Senici鈥檚 鈥楳usic in The Present Tense. Rossini鈥檚 Italian Operas in Their Time鈥�. Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi, 61, pp. 69-93 (2022)
• 鈥淕eschichte, Histoire, Storia: Stefano Cusani, Stanislao Gatti e la Circolazione Transnazionale dell鈥橦egelismo, 1838-48鈥�. In Gallo, F. (ed.) Gli Hegeliani di Napoli: Il Risorgimento e la ricezione di Hegel in Italia. Napoli: La Scuola di Pitagora, pp. 61-86 (2020)
• 鈥淭owards a New Philosophy of History: European Vichianism and Neapolitan Hegelianism, 1801-1848鈥�, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 25, pp. 1-18 (2019).
• 鈥淭he Cosmopolitan Morphology of the National Discourse: Italy as a European Centre of Intellectual Modernity鈥�. In K枚rner, A., Hauswedell, T. & Tiedau, U. (eds.) Re-Mapping Centres and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts. London: 果冻影院 Press, pp. 135-54 (2019).

罢别补肠丑颈苍驳听

• Enlightenments & Revolutions (HIST0674, Thematic Course)
• Global Intellectual History (HIST0089, Second Year Research Seminar)
• Unity before the Union? The Idea of Europe in the Modern Era (HIST 0809, MA Course)
• Enlightenment Histories: History and Time in Eighteenth-Century Thought and Culture (HIST0378, MA Course)
• Intelligent Design? Science, Religion and Material Culture, c. 1500-1830 (HIST0284, Advanced Seminar)