CUTTICA Cesare (MCF)

Dr. Cuttica studied history and philosophy at various institutions in both Europe and the US. He joined the University of Paris 8 and TransCrit in September 2011.

Dr. Cuttica’s main research interests lie in the history of ideas in early modern Britain and Europe. The study of patriarchalism, absolute power, resistance theory, republicanism, patriotic ideals and democracy has been the keynote of his work so far. In addition, he has written about the practice of history-writing, notably the methodology of intellectual history.

For a complete list of Cesare Cuttica’s publications, visit https://depa.univ-paris8.fr/Publications.html and https://univ-paris8.academia.edu/CesareCuttica

Books

 

  • Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought, co-edited with Laszlo Kontler and Clara Maier (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2021). https://brill.com/view/title/60415

 

 

Peer-reviewed articles and essays (10 most recent)

  • ‘"The History of Political Thought Above All" : A Portrait of Johann P. Sommerville (1953-)’, Hobbes Studies, 35:1 (2022), pp. 7-22.

 

  • ‘Archaeologist, Coroner, Detective, Lawyer, Translator or What ? The (Intellectual) Historian, Cultural Criticism, Audiences and the Painterly Eye’, Global Intellectual History, 6:5 (2021), pp. 573-591.

 

  • ‘Popularity in Early Modern England (ca. 1580-1642) : Looking Again at Thing and Concept’, Journal of British Studies, 58:1 (2019), pp. 1-27.
     
  • ‘The Intellectual Historian as Critic : Reflections on the Work of Stefan Collini’, Modern Intellectual History, 16:1 (2019), pp. 251-280.
     
  • ‘Eavesdropper on the Past : John W. Burrow (1935-2009), Intellectual History and its Future’, History of European Ideas, 40:7(2014), pp. 905-924.
     
  • ‘Anti-Methodology Par Excellence : Richard Cobb (1917-1996) and History Writing’, European Review of History, 21:1 (2014), pp. 91-110.
     
  • ‘The English Regicide and Patriarchalism : Representing Commonwealth Ideology and Practice in the Early 1650s’, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 36:2 (2013), pp. 127-160.
     
  • ‘To Use or Not to Use... The Intellectual Historian and the Isms : A Survey and a Proposal’, Etudes Epistémè, 13 (2013), Varia, http://episteme.revues.org/268
     
  • ‘A Thing or Two about Absolutism and its Historiography’, History of European Ideas, 39:2 (2013), pp. 287-300.
     
  • ‘What Type of Historian ? Conceptual History and the History of Concepts : a Complex Legacy and a Recent Contribution’, History and Theory, 51:3 (2012), pp. 411-422.
     
  • ‘Reputation Versus Context in the Interpretation of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha’, History of Political Thought, 33:2 (2012), pp. 231-257.

Book chapters (10 most recent)

  • ‘Introduction’, in Cesare Cuttica and Laszlo Kontler, with Clara Maier (eds), Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2021), pp. 1-22.
     
  • ‘Democracy and Crisis in the 1640s in England : the Ochlocratic Moment’, in Cesare Cuttica and Laszlo Kontler, with Clara Maier (eds), Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2021), pp. 106-126.
     
  • ‘Democrazia e oclocrazia in Inghilterra alla Metà del Seicento’ [orig. : ‘Democracy and Ochlocracy in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England’], in Giuseppe Cospito and Emilio Mazza (eds), Nell’Officina dei Lumi. Studi in onore di Gianni Francioni [In the Enlightenment’s Workshop. Essays in Honour of Gianni Francioni] (Como-Pavia : Ibis, 2021), pp. 23-41.
     
  • ‘Introduction. "Gone Missing" : Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Seventeenth-Century England’ (co-écrit avec Markku Peltonen), in Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen (eds), Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689 (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2019), pp. 1-17.
     
  • ‘The Spectre Haunting Early Seventeenth-Century England (ca. 1603-1649) : Democracy at its Worst’, in Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen (eds), Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689 (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2019), pp. 132-151.

 

  • ‘"No Trust, No Happiness" ! Going Beyond Locke in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos (eds), Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2018), pp. 320-344.
     
  • ‘Análise da "Pior Forma de Governo" no Início da Inglaterra Moderna : A Democracia Entre a Popularidade, o Radicalismo Religioso e o Inculto Homo Democraticus’ [orig. : ’Analysing "the Worst Form of Government" in Early Modern England : Democracy between Popularity, Religious Radicalism and Uncouth Homo Democraticus’], in E. Becker, M. de. St. A. A. Primo and Saulo H. S. Silva (eds), Moral, Ciência e História no Pensamento Moderno [Ethics, Science and History in Modern Thought] (São Cristóvão (Brazil) : Editora UFS, 2018), pp. 11-54.
     
  • ‘Tyrannicide and Political Authority in the Long Sixteenth Century’, in Henrik Lagerlund and Benjamin Hill (eds), Routledge Companion to Sixteenth-Century Philosophy (New York and London : Routledge, 2017), pp. 265-292.

 

 

  • ‘Introduction’ (co-écrit avec Gaby Mahlberg), in Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg (eds), Patriarchal Moments : Reading Patriarchal Texts (London : Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 1-8. 

Non peer-reviewed articles

  • ‘A Strong Antidote Against the Jesuitical Disease : Le Tocsin’, Omslag. Bulletin van de Universiteitbibliotheek Leiden en het Instituut, 1 (2007), pp. 10-11.

Book reviews (selected)

  • Hobbes Studies, 36:2 (2023), pp. 244-251, review of Christopher Holman, Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary (Albany : SUNY Press, 2022 ; 319 pp.). 

 

  • The American Historical Review, 120:3 (2015), pp. 1119-1120, review of Ronald G. Asch, Sacral Kingship between Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment : The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 (New York : Berghahn Books, Studies in British and Imperial History, 2014 ; 278 pp).
     
  • Renaissance Quarterly, 64:2 (2011), pp. 642-644, review of Stefania Tutino, Empire of Souls : Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth (Oxford : OUP, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, 2010 ; 404 pp).
     
  • History of European Ideas, 32:1 (2006), pp. 120-127, review of Belinda Roberts Peters, Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 ; 243 pp). 

Translations and editorial work

  • Translation from English to French and full editorial work for Eleonora Montuschi, Oggettività e Scienze Sociali (Rome : Carocci Editore, 2006 ; 160 pp).