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Forum on Hans Blumenberg and Political Myth

by contributing editors Andrew Hines and Jonathon Catlin

Autumn Reading from our Editors

Derek: I recommend teaching Ann Fabian’s The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead (Chicago, 2010) in your undergraduate seminars. It’s exemplary in showing, not telling, the history of early racial science in the U.S. within the broad and… Continue Reading →

Begriffsgeschichte’s Methodological Neighbors and the Scientification of Concepts

by guest contributor Jonas Knatz

Divi filius: The Comet of 44 BCE and the Politics of Late Republican Rome

By guest contributor Dora Gao Celestial objects and events have appeared in the historical record for a myriad of reasons, serving as portents of either fortune or doom or asserting the divine authority of a ruler. The comet of 44… Continue Reading →

Begriffsgeschichte’s History: Between Historicization of Concepts and Conceptual Politics

This is the first installment of a two-part interview with Falko Schmieder about his book Begriffsgeschichte and Historical Semantics (2016). For the second part, see here. Falko Schmieder is a cultural theorist and research associate for the Theory and Concept… Continue Reading →

In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast

By Co-Hosts Simon Brown and Disha Karnad Jani In the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with several scholars on their new and forthcoming work, and we’ve found these conversations surprising, entertaining, and intellectually exciting. Through these… Continue Reading →

In Theory: Holly Case on the Age of Questions

In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Professor Holly Case on The Age of Questions Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century,… Continue Reading →

Angus Nicholls on Blumenberg and Political Myth

by contributing editor Andrew Hines

Tory Marxism

by guest contributor Charles Troup

September 2019 Reading Recommendations, Part II

More reading recommendations from our editorial team to kick off the academic year Jonathon In 1986, the conservative German historian Ernst Nolte fired the first shots of the Historikerstreit (historians’ debate) with his article, “The Past That Will Not Pass:… Continue Reading →

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