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By Contributing Writer Michael Kinadeter The conference “The Mahabharata in Modern Intellectual History: Perspectives from South Asia, Europe, and East Asia” organized by Milinda Banerjee at Ludwig–Maximilians-Universität Munich on 24 November 2018, addressed the dearth of academic engagement with the… Continue Reading →
Here is the second installment of our reading recommendations to kick start your summer… Spencer A few scattershot things I’ve read, am reading, or plan to read this month: Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten: Welcome to the Benjamenta Institute, a… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor, Jake Newcomb Last year, philosopher Graham Priest published an article in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association titled “Marxism and Buddhism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows.” In the article, Priest aimed to highlight the complementary elements of… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Max Norman On November 16th, Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux, made an important announcement: the bones of Michel de Montaigne have been discovered. Or, at least, the bones might have been discovered. “Let’s keep our cool,” said… Continue Reading →
Here is the first installment of our reading recommendations to kick start your summer… Simon For teachers and students the promise of free time that comes with summer brings along the existential stress of how to spend it. That question… Continue Reading →
By Daniel Weidner This is a companion piece to Daniel Weidner’s recent article in the Journal of the History of Ideas, ‘The History of Dogma and the Story of Modernity: The Modern Age as the “Second Overcoming of Gnosticism”. Like identical… Continue Reading →
Disha Karnad Jani and Professor Adom Getachew discuss her new book, Worldmaking after Empire The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton, 2019)
By Nicholas Germana Professor Germana’s essay “The Creuzerstreit and Hegel’s Philosophy of History” is in the most recent Journal of the History of Ideas. In his July 2002 article in JHI, on “Greek Origins and Organic Metaphors: Ideals of Cultural… Continue Reading →
By Zach Bates This is a companion essay to the author’s “The Idea of Royal Empire and the Imperial Crown of England, 1542–1698”, published in the January 2019 edition of the JHI. Into the twenty-first century, it has been a… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Sara Friedman On May 28, 1919, the first gay rights film was released in German theaters. Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) follows the story of a homosexual violinist who is blackmailed and forced to… Continue Reading →
