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On Tzvetan Todorov: A Personal Recollection

By guest contributor Richard J. Golsan Early one morning last February, I received a text from a friend in Paris telling me that Tzvetan Todorov had died. The text concluded with the word “Désolée,” which captures so well feelings of… Continue Reading →

2017/08/18 0

The state, and revolution: A site-specific view of centenaries. Part I: The revolution reshuffled: Statelessness and civil war in the museum

By guest contributor Dr. Dina Gusejnova The introduction to “The state, and revolution” can be found here. Museums and libraries are the kinds of places that promise to transport you to any other time or place. But some people experience… Continue Reading →

2017/08/16 1

What We’re Reading: Week of 7th August

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Disha: Rudrapriya Rathore, “India’s Imagined… Continue Reading →

2017/08/12 0

JHI 78:3 available

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 78 number 3, is now available in print, and online at Project Muse. The table of contents is as follows: George Y. Kohler, “‘Scholasticism Is a Daughter of Judaism’: The… Continue Reading →

2017/08/11 0

The state, and revolution: A site-specific view of centenaries (Introduction)

By guest contributor Dr. Dina Gusejnova Editors’ Note: We are pleased to present a series of multi-media reflections on centenaries of the Russian Revolution by Dina Gusejnova, which will run for three weeks. The editors would welcome proposals for future audiovisual… Continue Reading →

2017/08/09 4

What We’re Reading: Week of 31st July

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Basma Zia Meral, “The Question of… Continue Reading →

2017/08/04 0

THE MODERN SCENE TESTIFIES: GILBERT CHINARD AND THE HUMANITIES IN WARTIME

by guest contributor Benjamin Bernard Editors’ Note: given the summer holidays, for the month of August JHIBlog will publish one piece a week, together with our regular What We’re Reading feature on Fridays. The mood was grim when literary historian Gilbert Chinard… Continue Reading →

2017/08/02 0

Contested Masculinities in the Australian 1950s

by guest contributor Chelsea Barnett In The Shiralee, a 1957 Australian film, Jim ‘Mac’ Macauley is locked in a fierce and bitter battle with his estranged wife, Marge, over custody of their daughter, Buster. For months, Buster has accompanied her… Continue Reading →

2017/07/31 1

What We’re Reading: Week of 24th July

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Sarah: Adolfo Aranjuez, “Death of… Continue Reading →

2017/07/28 0

Gold tried 500 times in the fire

by guest contributor Timothy Alborn, this post is a companion piece to his article, “The Greatest Metaphor Ever Mixed,” now out in the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Historians inevitably face the challenge of… Continue Reading →

2017/07/26 1

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