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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. Yitzchak: David P. Goldman, “A Sea… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo’s La ciencia española (first ed. 1876) is a battlefield long after the guns have fallen silent: the soldiers dead, the armies disbanded, even the names of the belligerent nations changed beyond… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Audrey Borowski According to the philosopher of science Alexandre Koyré, the early modern period marked the passage ‘from the world of more-or-less to the universe of precision’. Not all thinkers greeted the mathematization of epistemology with the… Continue Reading →
Here are some pieces from around the internet that have caught the eyes of our editorial team this week: Derek: “Garbage, Genius, or Both? Three Ways of Looking at Infinite Jest” (LitHub) Editors, “Debating the Uses and Abuses of ‘Neoliberalism’:… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Molly Wilder Autonomous man is–and should be–self-sufficient, independent, and self-reliant, a self-realizing individual who directs his efforts towards maximizing his personal gains. His independence is under constant threat from other (equally self-serving) individuals: hence he devises rules… Continue Reading →
Here are a few pieces that have caught the attention of our editorial team this week: Sarah: Andy Beckett, “Post-Work: The Radical Idea of a World Without Jobs,” (Guardian) Alison Croggan, “Now The Sky is Empty,” (overland) Richard Eldridge, “What… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Pranav Kumar Jain Since the publication of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Professor Samuel Moyn has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in the field of human rights studies and modern intellectual history…. Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Alison McManus For less populated fields of history, a conference designed for intellectual exchange can occasionally double as an existence proof. The workshop for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry must have appeared to… Continue Reading →
Here are a few pieces that have caught the attention of our editorial team this week: Derek Brandon M. Terry, “MLK Now” (Boston Review) Teresa Kroeger et al., “The state of graduate student employee unions” (Economic Policy Institute) Lewis Lapham,… Continue Reading →
By Editor Derek O’Leary, in conversation with curator Diana Greenwold It can be easy to imagine the early American republic as rushing headlong into the future during its first half-century—westward with the suppression of Indian society, seaborne to new markets… Continue Reading →
