Daniele Giuseppe Palmer

Doctoral candidate
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Daniele Giuseppe Palmer

After a period spent at the University of Turin, Italy, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from University College London (2018). I then completed a master’s degree at the London School of Economics in political sociology (2019), where I wrote a dissertation on historical method in Walter Benjamin’s Das Passagen Werk (Arcades Project). I am now working on a PhD in intellectual history at King's College and was Visiting Fellow at Groupe d'études sur les historiographies modernes (CRH-GEHM) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales from February to July 2022.

My project is concerned with the circulation and transmission of Giambattista Vico’s texts in France during the first half of the nineteenth century. By disentangling Vico’s legacy from an historicist account, I chart how his work was used to inform the writing of universal histories, principally by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, Jules Michelet, and François-René de Chateaubriand. But more broadly, I am interested in the development of religious thought, especially Catholic theology and moral theory, in tandem with political philosophy between the Renaissance and the nineteenth century.

Supervisor, Pol8, History of Political Thought, c. 1700-1890.

'Jules Michelet and the sources of morality', presented at University of Cambridge, Faculty of History's Graduate Workshop in Political Thought and Intellectual History, 16/06/2022.

'Thinking About Sublimity and Sociability in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Europe: A study in Theology, Aesthetics and Political Thought', presented at University of Cambridge, Faculty of History's Workshop in the History of Emotions and Memory, 14/06/2022.

'The Role of the Sublime and Imagination in Giambattista Vico's Political Thought', presented at EHESS, CRH-GEHM, 'Hèritage des Lumières', 23/05/2022.

'Traditions in the History of Ideas: A Return to a Pragmatic Theory of Meaning', presented at Sciences Po-Paris, CEVIPOF's Graduate Conference on Political Theory, 'History of Ideas and Political Theory', 03/11/2021.

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818, King’s College, King’s Parade

Cambridge, CB2 1ST

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dgp34@cam.ac.uk
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Key publications

'Accounting for Intellectual Traditions in the History of Ideas: A Return to a Pragmatic Theory of Meaning', Raisons politiques (forthcoming).

'Pierre Paul Royer-Collard: Religion and Social Thought in early-nineteenth-century France, c.1806-1830' in Aude Attuel(ed.) The Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Europe, 1789- 1922 (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming).