Politics of Moderation in Modern European History

Ido de Haan is Professor of Political History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has published on nineteenth-century European political history, on the history and memory of the Holocaust, on Jewish history, and on the history of citizenship, democracy, and the welfare state. He currently studies the history of neoliberalism in the Netherlands. Matthijs Lok is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications focus on the politics of memory and forgetting in the Restoration era, on the Counter-Enlightenment, European conservatism and nationalism, on the history of state formation and civil administration, and on the historiography of Europe.

• Introduction: The Politics of Moderation - Ido de Haan and Matthijs Lok.- Part I: Post-Revolutionary Moderation.- 1 Against Popular Societies and Faction. Transatlantic Discourses of Moderation in the American, French, and Dutch Republics of the 1790s - René Koekkoek.- 2 Moderation and Religion in Post-Revolutionary French Liberalism: Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant - Arthur Ghins.- 3 ‘The Extremes Set the Tone’: Counter-Revolutionary Moderation in Continental Conservatism (ca. 1795-1840) - Matthijs Lok.- 4 Taming the Evil Passions. Moderation in the International Relations - Beatrice de Graaf.- 5 In Medio Stat Virtus?  The Adaptability of the Moderate Project of Politics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Europe (1830-1870) - Amerigo Caruso.- Part II: Third ways, moderation, and radicalism in the twentieth century.- 6 Third Ways Out of the Crisis of Liberalism. Moderation and Radicalism in Germany, 1880-1950 - Ido de Haan.- 7 French Fascism as a “Revolution of the Centre”. Intellectuals between Revolution and Conservation - Daniel Knegt.- 8 Moderation through Expertise: Functional Elites and the Politics of Moderation in Western Europe’s Mid-Twentieth Century - Camilo Erlichman.- 9 ‘Disconnect Romanticism from Politics’: Democracy’s Moderate Face in Cold War Western Europe - Pepijn Corduwener.- 10 The Short History and Long Legacy of the Third Way. Social Democracy at the End of the Twentieth Century - Hanco Jürgens.- Part III: Moderation beyond the European Tradition.- 11 Moderation as Orthodoxy in Sunni Islam. Or, Why Nobody Wants to be the Kharijite - Robbert Woltering.- 12 Moderation: a Radical Virtue - Aurelian Craiutu   Sheldon Gellar.-