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Thomas Lalevée
@thomaslalevee.bsky.social
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Researcher at ANU, based in Melbourne. Working on a book on early French social science. Gustave Gimon Fellow in Political Economy at Stanford (2024-25)

https://anu-au.academia.edu/ThomasLalevee
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New review of Michael Sonenscher’s Capitalism contains this absolute gem

(That the review is by an economist makes the claim even more farcical)

www.independent.org/tir/2025-sum...
June 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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A new ideas podcast is coming!

@roots-and-branches.bsky.social
Coming soon! Roots and Branches - the new ideas podcast from the @StAndrewsIIH at the @univofstandrews
May 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
thomaslalevee.bsky.social
Hello California 👋
April 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Short extract from my recent review of Enlightenment Biopolitics
#Frenchhistory
The strength of this study lies in its breadth, and the connections it makes between different eighteenth-century plans for human breeding, the exclusionary underpinnings of Enlightenment political thought, and the origins of modern biopolitics. This study thus offers a new way of thinking about the politics of life in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, as well as about the relationship between these politics and later developments, such as colonial violence and the Holocaust.
January 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Grotesque analogy masquerading as intelligent commentary - in a review by none other than the esteemed & impartial Niall Ferguson

www.the-tls.co.uk/history/war-...
November 30, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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Identified a suspect
November 27, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Yes. Also, we can still use both, surely? We still (sometimes) post letters, even though we have email
November 17, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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I would like to thank Meta AI for this very kind and generous introduction
Thomas Lalevée is a French historian and researcher specializing in the history of social sciences, Enlightenment thought, and 18th-century French intellectual history. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking research on the origins of the term "social science" and its early usage in 18th-century France. Lalevée's work has shed new light on the intellectual currents that shaped the development of social sciences, and his discovery of Mirabeau's 1767 usage of "science sociale" has been widely recognized as a significant contribution to the field.
November 13, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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It was the “freaky pronouns” all along
Twitter/X post by Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari: Imagine a left without the freaky pronoun brigade; that’s reasonably restrictionist on the border (where most voters are); that backs policing and caters to sociality instead of the antisocial; but at the same time is populist on the economy. That’s … pretty attractive.
November 13, 2024 at 12:50 AM