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by contributing editors Andrew Hines and Jonathon Catlin
By guest contributor Morgan L. Green Mid-twentieth-century anthropology was in crisis. Already influenced by World War II, anthropologists in the 1960s encountered a variety of dramatic changes. The scientific method and the pressure to be “objective” dominated as institutions like the National… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer Weinreich I read the news today, oh boy. As Shakespeare’s Richard II almost said, For God’s sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of queens. The world mourns the loss of… Continue Reading →
The new issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas is now available from Project Muse. Historical Approaches to Epistemic Authority: The Case of NeoplatonismSaskia Aers “Authority” is a term widely used by scholars from various fields of studies,… Continue Reading →
By contributing writer David Loner In September 2017, the University of Arizona named its new department in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences the “Department of Political Economy and Moral Science” (DPEMS). For those American political philosophers and social… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Jonathon Catlin The renowned philosopher and dissident Ágnes Heller died while going for a swim in the Hungarian resort town of Balatonalmádi on July 19, 2019. Her friend and interlocutor Jürgen Habermas, who also turned ninety this… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Jacob Van de Beeten, Beyond Weimar The rise of populism, the election of Trump, Brexit, and illiberal politics in Hungary, Poland and beyond; all these political phenomena express a sense of discontent and instability across Western liberal… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer Weinreich The great ships of maritime history are protagonists in their own right. That iconic trio of explorers, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. That martyr for American imperialism, USS Maine. That scientific trailblazer, HMS Beagle. That bold adventurer, Kon-Tiki. Following the “lives” of these… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Alex Langstaff “The concept ‘crisis’ has indeed become a motto of modern politics, and for a long time it has been part of normality in any segment of social life,” argued Giorgio Agamben in a 2013 interview… Continue Reading →
