Th. 3e cycle--Litt. fr.--Bordeaux 3, 1986.

Magisterarbeit--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2005. / Bibliogr. p. 196-208.

Copy of author's previously published article inserted. / Bibliography: leaves 246-265. / xvi, 265 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Psychology, 1996

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1987/1988.

Diss.--Universität Stuttgart, 1998. / Bibliogr. p. 298-321.

Du premier congrès des scientifiques italiens de 1839 à la veille de la Grande Guerre, de nombreux mathématiciens italiens ont pris part à la vie politique de leur pays. Cette thèse examine les différentes modalités de cet engagement : le mouvement national, qui se décline dans le domaine scientifique par une forme spécifique de patriotisme dans un contexte d’unification de l’Italie, en est un aspect. Mais il s’agit d’analyser plus généralement la façon dont le statut de mathématicien peut être réinvesti dans le champ politique pour fonder un discours de légitimation, une forme d’expertise, revendiquer un regard spécifique sur le politique. Cela suppose de penser la circulation entre champ mathématique et politique avec les outils de l’histoire des intellectuels : comparer les stratégies d’ascension dans ces deux champs, analyser comment les conflits s’y transposent, comment les acteurs répartissent leur temps entre les différentes activités. Il s’agit donc de comprendre comment les transformations de la vie politique italienne autour de l’unification ont permis l’émergence de nouveaux hommes politiques, de mesurer leur réception par le milieu politique mais aussi dans le champ académique, ainsi que la façon dont leur double appartenance a pu affecter leur façon d’être mathématiciens. / From the first congress of Italian scientists in 1839 to the eve of World War I, many Italian mathematicians took part to the political life of their country. This PhD deals with the different modalities of this involvement: Italian national movement, which results in the scientific field in a specific shape of patriotism in a context of Italian unification, is one aspect. But I intend to draw a more general analysis of the way the position of a mathematician can be used in the political field to found a legitimating discourse, some kind of expertise, or to claim a specific way to consider political questions. In order to do so, I will need to consider circulations between mathematical and political fields with tools the history of intellectuals: I will thus compare the strategies of advancement in those two fields, analyze how the conflicts are transposed and how the actors divide their time between their different activities. So I intend to understand how the transformations of the Italian political life around national unification made possible the emergence of new politicians, to assess their reception in political and academic worlds and the way their double belonging influenced their practice as mathematicians.

Josiah Tucker, who was the Anglican Dean of Gloucester from 1758 until his death in 1799, is best known as a political pamphleteer, controversialist and political economist. Regularly called upon by Britain's leading statesmen, and most significantly the Younger Pitt, to advise them on the best course of British economic development, in a large variety of writings he speculated on the consequences of North American independence for the global economy and for international relations; upon the complicated relations between small and large states; and on the related issue of whether low wage costs in poor countries might always erode the competitive advantage of richer nations, thereby establishing perpetual cycles of rise and decline. As a vehement critic of war in all its forms, Tucker was a staunch opponent of Britain's mercantile system – a pejorative term connoting, amongst other things, the aggressive control of global trade for the benefit of the mother country so as to encourage imperial expansion throughout known parts of the world. Though recognising Tucker to be a pioneer of the anti-mercantilist free trade school, extant Tucker scholarship has tended to concentrate on the perceived similarities and dissimilarities between he and the classical economists, particularly Adam Smith. Yet whilst acknowledging the veracity of these various connections and claims, this thesis approaches Tucker from an alternative perspective. Placing Tucker in his proper historical context, the main purpose of this study is to explore the intellectual, political and theo-philosophical background to Tucker's economic thought. Its most original and profound contribution consisting in a detailed and critical analysis of Tucker's links with his ecclesiastical mentor Bishop Joseph Butler, its central concern is to argue the case for Butler's crucial influence over Tucker's free trade ideas – particularly in the guise of the neo-Stoic, Anglican providentialism that buttressed much of Butler's own theories in the field of meta-ethics and moral philosophy.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Fakultät für Philosophie und Geschichte--Tübingen--Eberhard-Karls-Universität, 2006. / Bibliogr. p. XIII-XLIV.

Texte légèrement remanié de--Habilitationsschrift--Berlin--Humboldt-Universität, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. 377-446.

Diss.--Philosophisch-historische Fakultät--Heidelberg--Ruprecht-Karls-Universität. / Bibliogr. p. 231-258. Index.