Journal of the History of Ideas

The new issue of the JHI includes this article by Upal Chakrabarti—“'Facts' and 'Ideas': Richard Jones, William Whewell, and the Entangled Histories of Science and Political Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain"—now available open access: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/933857

The new JHI features the first installment of a two-part article by Sophie Smith: "Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: Rethinking the 'Origins' of US Intellectual History."

This article is now available open access: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/933854

A new issue of the JHI has just been published, with articles by Sophie Smith, Olivier Latteur, Angus Harwood Brown, Upal Chakrabarti, Agatha Seo-Hyun Kim, Stuart Elden, and Tejas Parasher, as well as a remembrance of late Marcia Colish by Cary Nederman: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52964

Today on the JHI Blog, James Baxter explains how the paperback magazine New World Writing revolutionized American publishing in the 1950s and beyond.

New World Writing, Prestigious Pulp, and “Literary Hospitality” in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States by James Baxter

In today's think piece, Siddhesh Gooptu studies musical circulation and the impact of cultural and political encounters, arguing that musical traditions are almost always embedded with the histories of mobility, assimilation, and transformation.

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In this interview with Mehmet Şakir Yılmaz, Nilab Saeedi asks about the influence of bureaucratic culture on Ottoman politics during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Ottoman Bureaucratic Culture and Political Thought: An interview with Mehmet Şakir Yılmaz by Nilab Saeedi

Giovanni Lista discusses how the translations of Bernard de Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes from 1686 resulted in a plurality of semantic shifts, displacements of meanings, and forms of knowledge in eighteenth-century Europe.

On Translating Knowledge in the Enlightenment: The Case of Fontenelle’s Plurality of Worlds by Giovanni Lista

In today's think piece, Timothy Jaeger discusses a female member of the Munich and Göttingen schools of phenomenology, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, and explains her work's creative overcoming of Husserl and Heidegger.

Phenomenology’s First Lady: Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Phenomenological Realism by Timothy B. Jaeger

In today's think piece, Becca Palmer explains the role of religious sermons in disseminating political ideas during the American Revolution.

From Pulpits to Parapets: Sermons in Revolutionary Boston by Becca Palmer

In today's thinkpiece, Andrew Barrette discusses the resources within Belgian Jesuit philosophy for critically reflecting on the process of "knowledge production" in the modern world.

The Communication of Knowledge: Learning from Some Twentieth-Century Belgian Jesuits by Andrew Barrette

Jon Catlin interviews Hans Kundnani on his latest, pathbreaking book Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire, and Race in the European Project.

Eurowhiteness and the Failures of German Memory: An Interview with Hans Kundnani by Jonathan Catlin

Rukmini Swaminathan reviews the exhibition, Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, now at the Victoria & Albert Museum, situating the concept of Tropical Modernism historically, juxtaposing it with the politics of location and decolonization.

Revisiting Tropical Modernism: Why Now? by Rukmini Swaminathan

In today's interview, Jonas Bakkeli Eide asks Kei Hiruta about the personal and intellectual strife that divided two key political thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin.

Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: An Interview with Kei Hiruta by Jonas Bakkeli Eide

In today's think-piece, Reece Edmends dives into the political controversy surrounding Cicero's famous discourse after the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Cicero’s Appeal to Natural Law in 43 BC by Reece Edmends

The recent issue of the journal includes a review essay by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo on the work of the Iberconceptos research group, "Conceitos and Conceptos: The Weight of Words in the Iberian World": https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/926152

In the new issue of the journal, Nasser Zakariya historicizes a dream of the physicist George Gamow, considering it in the context of Gamow's scientific work and in light of enduring preoccupations with the notion of a complete science: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/926153

In the latest intallment of our podcast, In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press).

Black Scare/Red Scare: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly by Disha Karnad Jani

In the most recent issue of the journal, Xinyi Wen argues that Aby Warburg and Karl Sudhoff’s debate on Reformation astrological medicine provided a new theory of the emergence of modern science and rationality.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/926151

In this interview, Benjamin Diehl asks Stefanos Geroulanos about how seemingly innocuous concepts drawn from prehistory have been used for political ends, often with devastating results.

The Concepts that Made Prehistory: An Interview with Stefanos Geroulanos by Benjamin Diehl

In the new issue of the journal, Or Rosenboim explores the uses of utopian rhetoric of food plenty in Italian colonial visions before the First World War.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/926150

In today's think-piece, prolific historian and sinologist Joshua Fogel reflects on his pathbreaking journey in translating all of the ten-volume Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature.

On the Translation of the Multi-Volume Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Literature by Joshua Fogel

In the new issue of the journal, Germaine A. Hoston analyzes the influence of Chinese Neo-Confucianism on the development of German idealism: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/926149

In today's think-piece, Pete Cajka investigates the historically complex relationship between Catholicism and the 1960s sexual revolution, focusing on pioneer thinkers John McNeill and Eugene Kennedy.

Managing the Sexual Revolution, Catholic Style: Towards an Intellectual History by Peter Cajka

In the new issue of the journal, Ruby Lowe writes on the "speech without doors" genre of "print oration" and its contributions to England’s developing structure of political communication and representation.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/926147

Niels Lee unpacks the 19th-century controversy surrounding the Islamic intellectual Jamal al-Din, explaining the political and theoretical paradoxes behind his definition of religion and showing its impact on modern Islamic thought.

Islam Near the Turn of the Century: Jamal al-Din and Religious Paradox by Niels Lee

In the new issue of the journal, Daniel Luban considers Hobbes’s notorious claim that “fear and liberty are consistent” and therefore that agreements coerced by threat of violence are binding: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/926146

In this think piece, Julian Tepfers explains how myths can advance contemporary intellectual exchange and understanding on a global scale.

Out of an Empty Vehicle: On Myth and Global Thought by Julian Tepfers

In the new issue of the journal, Minchul Kim's article, "Sophie de Grouchy’s Political Thought in the Letters on Sympathy (1798)," is now available open access.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/926148

The JHI's editorial board is delighted to announce the appointment of Adom Getachew, Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, to join the journal's team of Executive Editors.

Announcing a new Executive Editor of the journal: Adom Getachew The JHI’s editorial board is delighted to announce the appointment of Adom Getachew, Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, to join Martin J. Burke (CUNY Grad Center, History), Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU, History), Ann Moyer (Univ.... Conti...