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By Contributing Writer Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire In an interview with Günther Gaus in 1964, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) recalls that she had started to read Immanuel Kant at the age of 14.[1] Evidently, this long and intense intellectual acquaintance with Kant played… Continue Reading →
This month, we asked our editorial team to reflect on books they wished they had read earlier in their academic careers. Luna Sarti: I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us quite late in my education, when I had already… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Luna Sarti
The Journal of the History of Ideas, the JHI Blog, and the University of Pennsylvania invite graduate students from all institutions, disciplines, and stages of their degree to propose papers for our second annual Graduate Student Symposium on The Ends… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Thomas Furse In a letter to a fellow republican during the 1799 Neapolitan Revolution, Vincenzo Cuoco proclaimed, ‘our philosophers, my dear friend, are often deceived by the idea of something excellent which is the worst enemy of… Continue Reading →
Volume 80, No. 4 of the Journal of the History of Ideas Previous Next Francesco Quatrini, “Adam Borreal on Collegiant Freedom of Speech” Steven Nadler, “Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions” Dabney Townsend, “On Genius: The Development of… Continue Reading →
In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Professor Michael Carhart on his recent book Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters (Johns Hopkins, 2019)
by guest contributor Dr. Thomas Moynihan The idea of human extinction first appeared in the eighteenth century. A perennial tradition of religious eschatology and apocalypse has, of course, existed throughout history. But human extinction represents a novel and distinct idea…. Continue Reading →
By guest contributor John Phipps February, 1639, and the festivities of the Roman carnival were approaching their apex. There had been processions and parades, public displays of civic and religious devotion—almost all bankrolled by the ruling Barberini family. The Barberini patriarch,… Continue Reading →
By Sandrine Bergès, Eileen Hunt Botting, and Alan Coffee. Putting together a volume with the title The Wollstonecraftian Mind is an exciting but challenging task. The ultimate goal is to give readers an insight into the range, depth, complexity, and… Continue Reading →
