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Helena Rosenblatt
 


Ph.D. Columbia University
Academic Affiliation: Hunter College
Office phone: 212 772 5346
Email: hrosenbl@hunter.cuny.edu
Website: http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~rosenblatt/


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Field of Scholarship

Early Modern Europe; European Intellectual History; Modern Europe

Selected Publications

Books:

Rousseau and Geneva. From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762, Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context Series, 1997. Paperback 2007.

Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

(ed.)Cambridge Companion to Constant, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Book Chapters:

"The Christian Enlightenment," in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol VII: Enlightenment, Revolution and Reawakening (1660-1815), eds. Timothy Tackett and Stewart Brown, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 283-301.

"Eclipses and Revivals: Constant's Reception in France and America, 1830-2007," in Cambridge Companion to Constant, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2008

Articles:

"On the Intellectual Sources of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, and the Debates about a National Religion," French Politics, Culture & Society 25, 3 (Winter 2007), pp. 1-18.

"Rousseau the anti-Cosmopolitan," Daedalus, forthcoming, 2008.

"Madame de Staël, the Protestant Reformation and the History of 'Private Judgement,'" Annales Benjamin Constant 29 (2005), pp.159-170.

"Rousseau's Gift to Geneva," Modern Intellectual History 3, 1 (2006), pp. 65-73.

"Two Liberals on Religion: Constant and Tocqueville Compared," Annales Benjamin Constant 29 (2005), pp.159-170.

"Why Constant? A Critical Overview of the Constant Revival," Modern Intellectual History 1, 3 (2004), pp. 439-453.

"Re-evaluating Benjamin Constant's Liberalism: Industrialism, Saint-Simonianism and the Restoration Years," in History of European Ideas 30, 1 (2004), pp. 23-37.

"Commerce et religion dans le libéralisme de Benjamin Constant," Commentaire 102 (Summer, 2003), pp. 415- 426.

"On the 'Misogyny' of Rousseau: the Letter to d'Alembert in Historical Perspective," French Historical Studies, 25:1 (Winter, 2002), pp. 91-114.

"Reinterpreting Adolphe: the Sexual Politics of Benjamin Constant," Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Winter, 2002), pp. 341-360.

 
 
 
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