@misc{la vopa_2020, title={HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE IMAGINATION IN ENLIGHTENMENT STUDIES}, volume={17}, ISSN={["1479-2451"]}, DOI={10.1017/S1479244318000355}, abstractNote={“The Enlightenment,” Anthony Pagden writes in the conclusion toThe Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters, “quite simply created the modern world.”1It would have been more prudent to say that the Enlightenment created “the conditions of possibility” of modernity; or, more prudent still, that it was critical to forming certain values and institutions that we (or some of us) consider modern. Precisely because the latter way of putting it is so anemic, it is one of the rare few statements that would be acceptable across the spectrum of opinions in debates over the last half-century about the Enlightenment and modernity. Acceptable, though, only because it provides a terrain for waging a thicket of wars, at once ideological and disciplinary, between a historians’ Enlightenment and a philosophers’ Enlightenment and within each of these camps.}, number={1}, journal={MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY}, author={La Vopa, Anthony J.}, year={2020}, month={Mar}, pages={279–302} }
 @article{la vopa_2018, title={LIFE: BIOGRAPHY AS CONFLICTUAL COHERENCE}, volume={15}, ISSN={["1479-2451"]}, DOI={10.1017/s1479244317000221}, abstractNote={In the early 1970s, when I was a graduate student, biography was considered “an unloved stepchild” of the historical discipline. The naive empiricism of its soup-to-nuts narratives seemed deaf to any theory that might call the biographer's craft into question. In 2009, the American Historical Review honored the genre of biography with a roundtable on its creative renewal. Oddly (and regrettably) there was no mention of the work of Jerrold Seigel in any of the roundtable essays, though he had published three innovative biographical works over the previous thirty years. Characterizing Seigel as a biographer by trade would, to be sure, seriously diminish the scope of his scholarship. But two of his seven books have been full biographies, and in two others a biographical approach has been central to his modus operandi. A leading figure in refashioning the genre, he has been quite conscious of the implications of that commitment. In 1987 he ended an article on Durkheim with a challenge: “our knowledge of the human world must be able to survive the recognition of its personal sources.” Three years later he concluded an article on “the personal roots of Foucault's thinking” with another provocation to recent preoccupations in the discipline: “the proclaimed death of the subject is not some newly discovered set of relations that produce the illusion of human will and intentions as residues of their silent operation, but the action of a subjectivity that will not speak its name.”}, number={1}, journal={MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY}, author={La Vopa, Anthony J.}, year={2018}, month={Apr}, pages={227–241} }
 @misc{la vopa_2017, title={On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820}, volume={89}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Modern History}, author={La Vopa, A.}, year={2017}, pages={432–435} }
 @misc{la vopa_2017, title={The invention of hysteria at the time of Enlightenment (1670-1820)}, volume={89}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Modern History}, author={La Vopa, A.}, year={2017}, pages={432–435} }
 @article{la vopa_2010, title={Sexless minds at work and at play: Poullain de la barre and the origins of early modern feminism}, DOI={10.1525/rep.2010.109.1.57}, abstractNote={This article recontextualizes the thought of François Poullain de la Barre, arguably the first modern feminist, in order to demonstrate that his feminism was at once more radical and more constrained than has been realized.}, number={109}, journal={Representations (Berkeley, Calif.)}, author={La Vopa, A. J.}, year={2010}, pages={57–94} }
 @misc{la vopa_2009, title={A NEW INTELLECTUAL HISTORY? JONATHAN ISRAEL'S ENLIGHTENMENT}, volume={52}, ISSN={["1469-5103"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0018246x09990094}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT}, number={3}, journal={HISTORICAL JOURNAL}, author={La Vopa, Anthony J.}, year={2009}, month={Sep}, pages={717–738} }
 @misc{lavopa_2008, title={Women, gender, and the enlightenment: A historical turn}, volume={80}, DOI={10.1086/588854}, abstractNote={In these days of retrenchment in academic publishing, when editors hardly dare hope that books will break even, the publication of a 769-page collection of scholarly essays, with contributions from no less than thirty-nine scholars, is in itself a noteworthy event. So large an exception to austerity was, in this case, fully justified. Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott have organized and guided to completion an exceptionally timely book. More than any other volume I know, Women, Gender, and Enlightenment registers the force of the impact that feminist scholarship has had, and will continue to have, on the study of the Enlightenment and on the historical discipline as a whole. Aside from its huge importance for Enlightenment studies, the volume marks the accomplishments of the historical study of women and gender but at the same time points us in new directions. It may also prove to be a pivotal moment in the development of feminism itself. The participants in the project that produced the volume were well aware of this latter possibility. The project extended over three years, from 1998 to 2001. Well over a hundred scholars took part in its colloquia and seminars. These meetings had, in Jenny Mander’s words, “the spontaneous vitality of almost entirely unorchestrated conversation.”1 This was precisely the modus operandi that Barbara Taylor, Sarah Knott, and their colleagues had hoped to follow. They wanted to create a truly collective enterprise—one that would have something of the ethos of British Dissent in the 1790s, which might be said to have briefly given modern feminism its first home, and that would revive the still more radical spirit of the “Second Wave” feminism of the 1970s. Here was a case, then, in which spontaneity was in itself a statement of purpose. Reaching back to key moments in the history of feminism, the project would demonstrate the viability of an egalitarian and genuinely collaborative alternative to the demoralizing mix of “Thatcherite” managerialism and celebrity culture that has descended on academe on both sides of the Atlantic. Feminist scholarship in this mode was acting on a sense of chagrin about feminism’s increasing complicity in the very Establishment it was engaged in critiquing and was acknowledging that an examination of conscience was in}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Modern History}, author={LaVopa, A. J.}, year={2008}, pages={332–357} }
 @article{la vopa_2005, title={The romantic conception of life: Science and philosophy in the age of Goethe.}, volume={77}, ISSN={["0022-2801"]}, DOI={10.1086/429436}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewThe Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. By Robert J. Richards. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations. Edited by, David L. Hull. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix+587. $35.00.Anthony La VopaAnthony La VopaNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author North Carolina State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 77, Number 1March 2005 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/429436 Views: 17Total views on this site Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY}, author={La Vopa, A}, year={2005}, month={Mar}, pages={168–171} }
 @article{la vopa_2005, title={Thinking about marriage: Kant's liberalism and the peculiar morality of conjugal union}, volume={77}, ISSN={["1537-5358"]}, DOI={10.1086/429427}, abstractNote={In 1797 Immanuel Kant, a frail seventy-three-year-old bachelor soon to enter the physical and mental helplessness of his final years, published The Metaphysics of Morals, the last of the great building blocks of a massive philosophical edifice. His Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View appeared in the next year. The texts present Kant in quite different personas and styles of thought—the one a rigorous exercise in systematic reasoning, constituting the philosopher’s long-awaited effort to define the relationship between morality and law within the architectonic of the Critical Philosophy, the other a published version of a rather informal and chatty lecture series Kant had given almost yearly at the University of Königsberg since 1772.1 But the texts also have something in common: a steely cynicism on the subject of marriage that may at points have the disturbing effect of dehumanizing the institution and that arguably rests on a very low estimation of women. It may be true that, as Manfred Kuehn, Kant’s most recent biographer, has put it, “[Kant’s] view of the social and political role of women was largely traditional.” But why conclude, as Kuehn does, that under the circumstances “not much more could be expected”?2 We have historical as well as philosophical reasons to expect more. Kant was committed to wielding philosophy as the razor-sharp blade of rational critique from which no form of tradition could be spared. When we ask why he signally failed to apply the blade to conventional wisdom on gender differences, it helps us little to acknowledge}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY}, author={La Vopa, AJ}, year={2005}, month={Mar}, pages={1–34} }
 @article{lavopa_2004, title={Kant: A biography}, volume={76}, ISSN={["0022-2801"]}, DOI={10.1086/422935}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewKant: A Biography. By Manfred Kuehn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii+544. $34.95.Anthony LaVopaAnthony LaVopaNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author North Carolina State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 76, Number 2June 2004 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/422935 Views: 44Total views on this site Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY}, author={LaVopa, A}, year={2004}, month={Jun}, pages={417–419} }
 @article{la vopa_2003, title={Radical enlightenment: Philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750}, volume={75}, ISSN={["0022-2801"]}, DOI={10.1086/380145}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewRadical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750. By Jonathan I. Israel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi + 810. $45.00.Anthony La Vopa Anthony La VopaNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author North Carolina State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 75, Number 2June 2003 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/380145 Views: 245Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY}, author={La Vopa, A}, year={2003}, month={Jun}, pages={389–393} }
 @article{la vopa_2003, title={The enlightenment: A comparative social history, 1721-1794}, volume={75}, ISSN={["0022-2801"]}, DOI={10.1086/377753}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721–1794. By Thomas Munck. London: Arnold, 2000. Pp. xii+249. $25.95.Anthony J. La VopaAnthony J. La VopaNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author North Carolina State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 75, Number 1March 2003 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/377753 Views: 43Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY}, author={La Vopa, AJ}, year={2003}, month={Mar}, pages={136–139} }
 @book{la vopa_2001, title={Fichte: The self and the calling of philosophy, 1762-1799}, ISBN={0521791456}, publisher={Cambridge: Cambridge University Press}, author={La Vopa, A. J.}, year={2001} }
 @book{lawrence e. klein_vopa_1998, title={Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850}, publisher={San Marino, Calif: Huntington Library}, author={Lawrence E. Klein and Vopa, Anthony J. La}, year={1998} }
 @book{la vopa_1998, title={Grace, talent, and merit: Poor students, clerical careers, and professional ideology in eighteenth-century Germany}, ISBN={0521350417}, publisher={Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press}, author={La Vopa, A. J.}, year={1998} }
 @article{la vopa_1998, title={Sexuality, state, and civil society in Germany, 1700-1815.}, volume={70}, ISSN={["0022-2801"]}, DOI={10.1086/235151}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815. By Isabel V. Hull. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+467. $39.95.Anthony La VopaAnthony La VopaNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author North Carolina State UniversityPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 70, Number 3September 1998 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/235151 Views: 15Total views on this site Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY}, author={La Vopa, A}, year={1998}, month={Sep}, pages={727–730} }
 @misc{lavopa_1997, title={Intimacy and exclusion. Religious politics in pre-revolutionary Baden D. Herzog}, volume={22}, number={2}, journal={Social History}, author={LaVopa, A. J.}, year={1997}, pages={236–238} }
 @misc{lavopa_1997, title={Translating the enlightenment: Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany. F Oz-Salzberger}, volume={69}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Modern History}, author={LaVopa, A. J.}, year={1997}, pages={382–384} }