Neoliberal Dogma? Revisiting Foucault on Social Security, Healthcare, and Autonomy (Pt. II of II)

by guest contributor Luca Provenzano Earlier, I discussed claims that the French philosopher Michel Foucault anticipated or deployed neoliberal dogmas about social security in an interview in 1983. I now consider Foucault’s assertions about health and healthcare in the same… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 12

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If we missed something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments! John: Roberto Gilodi, Germania anno zero (Doppiozero) Jeet… Continue Reading →

January 16, 2015 0

January events in Paris for intellectual history

by John Raimo Here at the JHI blog, we hope to soon share more news about upcoming events for intellectual historians of all stripes wherever they may be. A calendar is in the works. The coming weeks in Paris, however,… Continue Reading →

January 15, 2015 0

The Politics of Unearthing New Amsterdam in 19th-Century New York

by Madeline McMahon John Romeyn Brodhead was fascinated by a city beneath his feet that he felt could only be dug up and discovered in the archives of the Old World. New Amsterdam, and its fraught transformation into New York,… Continue Reading →

January 14, 2015 0

Neoliberal Dogma? Revisiting Foucault on Social Security, Healthcare, and Autonomy (Pt. I of II)

by guest contributor Luca Provenzano Was Michel Foucault “seduced” by neoliberalism? Daniel Zamora and other scholars voice this allegation in Critiquer Foucault: Les années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale (English translation forthcoming). Last month, an interview with Zamora (translated from… Continue Reading →

January 12, 2015 0

What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 5

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If we missed something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments! Maddy: The Attack on Charlie Hebdo and the… Continue Reading →

January 10, 2015 0

Back in the Sattel(zeit) again

by John Raimo Where does the historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) stand in intellectual history today? Among his readers, Koselleck remains a preeminent theorist of historical time and historiography, an innovative figure in ‘conceptual history’ (Begriffsgeschichte), and an accomplished historian in… Continue Reading →

January 9, 2015 0

Intellectual “Entanglements” and the Status of Modern British History

by Emily Rutherford In my post about the History Manifesto last week, I wrote that one of the things I want to explore on this blog is the “crisis” in which the national history of modern Britain has found itself… Continue Reading →

January 8, 2015 0

Reflections of an AHA First-Timer

by Emily Rutherford The modern conference resembles the pilgrimage of medieval Christendom in that it allows the participants to indulge themselves in all the pleasures and diversions of travel while appearing to be austerely bent on self-improvement. To be sure,… Continue Reading →

January 6, 2015 0

What We’re Reading: Week of Dec. 29

Here are the editors’ picks from around the internet this week. Please add other pieces of interest to intellectual historians in the comments section! “Not an institution, but a little community”: T.F. Tout and the ‘Manchester School’ (misplacedhabits) David Bell on The New… Continue Reading →

January 2, 2015 0

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