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History or Ghost Story? Marshall Berman

by guest contributor Max Ridge “One of the most important things for radical critics to point to,” Marshall Berman writes in his first book, “is all the powerful feeling which the system tries to repress—in particular, every man’s sense of… Continue Reading →

2017/01/09 0

What We’re Reading: January 6th

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. John: Holland Cotter, “World War I… Continue Reading →

2017/01/06 0

Please Return to the Stenographic Department

Like a literary manuscript in a publisher’s office, screenplays face rounds of revision and annotation in the motion picture studio. In the photograph above, someone holds a draft script for The Lady Eve, marked up with notes in several hands…. Continue Reading →

2017/01/04 0

Towards an Intellectual History of the Alt-Right?

by contributing editor Yitzchak Schwartz As the alt-right has gained ascendance in American politics and cultural consciousness over the past 24 months, American intellectuals have been scrambling to try and understand its roots and what makes it tick. The media… Continue Reading →

2017/01/02 1

History of Ideas at AHA2017

For the third year, your trusty blog editors have combed through the behemoth that is the AHA Annual Meeting’s program in search of panels and events related to intellectual history. JHIBlog readers attending the American Historical Association Annual Meeting might… Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading, December 23rd

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. The editors of the JHI Blog… Continue Reading →

2016/12/23 0

“Many thanks to Teddie Adorno”: Negative Dialectics at Fifty

by guest contributor Jonathon Catlin Ten days after the fateful U.S. presidential election, several leading scholars of the Frankfurt School of critical theory gathered at Harvard University to reevaluate the legacy of the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor W. Adorno. The occasion—“Negative… Continue Reading →

2016/12/21 1

Foucault from Beyond the Grave

by guest contributor Michael C. Behrent Few living thinkers have been as prolific as the dead Michel Foucault. In the thirty-two years since his death, he has published thirteen book-length lecture courses, four volumes of interviews and papers (totaling over… Continue Reading →

2016/12/19 0

What We’re Reading: December 16th

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. John: Roundtable: “Brexit Before and After”… Continue Reading →

2016/12/16 1

Coming to Terms with the Cybernetic Age

by guest contributor Jamie Phillips Rare the conference attracting a crowd on a cold December Saturday morning, but such happened recently at NYU’s Remarque Institute. Space filled out early for the conclusion of a two-day conference on Cybernetics and the… Continue Reading →

2016/12/14 0

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