Cesare Cuttica teaches British History at Paris 8. His publications focus on a variety of early modern topics, from absolutism to democracy, as well as on the methodology of intellectual history. He is a member of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History.

László Kontler is Professor of History at Central European University (Budapest-Vienna). His research and publications focus on intellectual history, the history of political thought, translation and reception, and the production and circulation of knowledge in early modern, mainly Enlightenment Europe.

This volume advances a better, more historical and contextual, manner to consider not only the present, but also the future of 'crisis' and 'renewal' as key concepts of our political language as well as fundamental categories of interpretation.