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The new issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas is now available from Project Muse. Historical Approaches to Epistemic Authority: The Case of NeoplatonismSaskia Aers “Authority” is a term widely used by scholars from various fields of studies,… Continue Reading →
By contributing writer David Loner In September 2017, the University of Arizona named its new department in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences the “Department of Political Economy and Moral Science” (DPEMS). For those American political philosophers and social… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Jonathon Catlin The renowned philosopher and dissident Ágnes Heller died while going for a swim in the Hungarian resort town of Balatonalmádi on July 19, 2019. Her friend and interlocutor Jürgen Habermas, who also turned ninety this… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Jacob Van de Beeten, Beyond Weimar The rise of populism, the election of Trump, Brexit, and illiberal politics in Hungary, Poland and beyond; all these political phenomena express a sense of discontent and instability across Western liberal… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer Weinreich The great ships of maritime history are protagonists in their own right. That iconic trio of explorers, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. That martyr for American imperialism, USS Maine. That scientific trailblazer, HMS Beagle. That bold adventurer, Kon-Tiki. Following the “lives” of these… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Alex Langstaff “The concept ‘crisis’ has indeed become a motto of modern politics, and for a long time it has been part of normality in any segment of social life,” argued Giorgio Agamben in a 2013 interview… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Jonathon Catlin and guest contributor Lotte Houwink ten Cate From June 6–9, 2019, over thirty eminent scholars of German and Jewish history and culture gathered in Berlin at the conference “Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the Study… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Hannes Bajohr In 1974, the philosopher Hans Blumenberg – known for such massive tomes as The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, The Genesis of the Copernican World, and Work on Myth – received the prestigious Kuno Fischer… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Alexis Rider April 22 was Earth Day: an annual, global, day of mobilization to push for environmental reform. Often painted as the origin story of the environmental movement, Earth Day, which began in 1970, was originally about… Continue Reading →
