What We’re Reading: March 17

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. Emily: Charlie Tyson, The Loneliness of… Continue Reading →

March 17, 2017 0

High Fidelity: Jean Starobinski’s Critical Hermeneutics

by guest contributor Emelyn Lih The work of Swiss literary critic, hermeneut, and historian of ideas Jean Starobinski can be characterized by its dedication to depth and diversity: diversity of periods explored (from Montaigne to Baudelaire to Claude Simon, to… Continue Reading →

Socialism and Power: Axel Honneth in Paris

by guest contributor Jacob Hamburger When asked about his political orientation, for many years Axel Honneth would reply almost automatically, “I think I’m a socialist.” Yet as he recounted recently at Columbia University’s global center in Paris, each time he… Continue Reading →

March 13, 2017 1

What We’re Reading: March 10

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. Emily: Robert E. Norton, Ernst Kantorowicz:… Continue Reading →

March 10, 2017 1

Global/Universal History: A Warning

by contributing editor Disha Karnad Jani Last week, in an essay on the state of global history, historian Jeremy Adelman asked, “In our fevered present of Nation-X First, of resurgent ethno-nationalism, what’s the point of recovering global pasts?” In the… Continue Reading →

March 8, 2017 2

Russian Art 1917-1932 at the Royal Academy, London

by guest contributor Audrey Borowski The imperial red hits you as soon as you enter the Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, “Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932,” which sets out to explore the frenzy that gripped the Russian artistic scene between 1917 and… Continue Reading →

March 6, 2017 2

What We’re Reading: March 3

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. Emily: Barbara Newman, Byzantine Laments: Anna… Continue Reading →

March 3, 2017 0

Forms of Bureaucracy

by editor John Raimo What sorts of history does bureaucracy yield, and what might histories of bureaucracy itself look like? That the two questions remain distinct yet fall closely together emerged in the course of an excellent recent conference organized… Continue Reading →

March 1, 2017 1

Saving Nigeria

by guest contributor James Farquharson The year 2017 will mark fifty years since the start of the Nigerian Civil War. One of postcolonial Africa’s most devastating conflicts, the war left between one and three million people dead. This year is… Continue Reading →

February 27, 2017 0

What We’re Reading: February 24

Don’t forget that this Wednesday, March 1 is the deadline for authors and publishes to nominate outstanding first books in intellectual history/history of ideas for JHI’s Forkosch Prize! Details here on what and how to nominate. Here are a few… Continue Reading →

February 24, 2017 0

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