Benny Bar-Lavi
Research Interests
Intellectual history; political theology and political philosophy in early modern Europe; longue durée history of ideas; the reception of Machiavelli and Spinoza; Jewish-Christian intellectual relations in early modern Europe; early modern Spain; conversos; the Western Sephardi Diaspora
Arthur Clement
Research Interests
Development of human sciences in the nineteenth century; emergence of the religious sciences in France; relationship between the human sciences and the natural sciences, natural history, morphology, and embryology; social and political contexts of knowledge formation; dialogue between science and religion as part secularism in France
Oliver Cussen
Research Interests
Old regime France; European imperialism; political economy and the history of capitalism; the Enlightenment; intellectual history; environmental history
Brandon Deadman
Research Interests
History of the human sciences in modern France and Germany; Kulturkritik and Kulturpessimismus; religious studies, esotericism, and political radicalism; social theory and philosophical anthropology; German idealism and hermeneutic phenomenology; French poststructuralism; history of perception, ontology, and technics; the ontological turn; New Wittgensteinian approaches to history-writing
John-Paul Heil
Research Interests
Early modern Europe, intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, Renaissance reception of classical philosophy, and Italian cultural history