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by guest contributor Ella Myer
By Contributing Writer Karie Schultz. On 28 February 1638, opponents of King Charles I gathered at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh to sign the National Covenant, thereby voicing their opposition to the king’s “popish” ecclesiastical reforms and oversight of the church…. Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Julian Koch Unless we are unashamed linguistic chauvinists, some, maybe most, of the works of literature we consider to be part of any form of literary canon are inevitably written in languages we do not understand, and… Continue Reading →
By Professor Steven Nadler Read Professor Nadler’s full article from this season’s JHI, “Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions.” It just goes to show: even a rabbi can sometimes bend the truth a little, especially in the heat… Continue Reading →
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani speaks with Priyamvada Gopal (Reader in Anglophone and Related Literature, University of Cambridge) about her new book, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso)
Over ten years ago, Michal Kopeček, Balázs Trencsényi, and colleagues decided to embark on an ambitious intellectual history of modern political thought that would span all of East Central Europe. The resulting two volumes—“a must-read” (Holly Case) and “a work… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire In an interview with Günther Gaus in 1964, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) recalls that she had started to read Immanuel Kant at the age of 14.[1] Evidently, this long and intense intellectual acquaintance with Kant played… Continue Reading →
This month, we asked our editorial team to reflect on books they wished they had read earlier in their academic careers. Luna Sarti: I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us quite late in my education, when I had already… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Luna Sarti
