Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni

by Jochen Schmon Alyssa Battistoni is a political theorist and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. Battistoni is the... Continue Reading →

Monday, August 25, 2025

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After the Year of Africa: W. E. B. Du Bois, Immanuel Wallerstein, and the Sociology of Decolonization

by Sam Chian Immanuel Wallerstein is widely remembered today as the architect of world-systems analysis—a sprawling and ambitious framework that recast modern history around capitalism's long-term, geographical dynamics, rather than the short-term, nation-bound focus that had dominated much of social... Continue Reading →

Monday, August 18, 2025

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Meiji Japan and the "Korean Question": Settler Colonialism and Pan-Asianism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

by Niels Lee Pan-Asianism, a modern ideology advocating regional integration in Asia, has a complicated history. It rose to prominence in the 1880s, when Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and Korean Pan-Asianists emphasized Asian unity during a period of international power politics... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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Call for Contributing Editors

We are seeking additional contributing editors to join our editorial collective within the next three months. About us: The Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (JHI Blog), launched in 2015, is an online publication that aims to bring together today's varied, burgeoning conversations... Continue Reading →

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Monday, August 11, 2025

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How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando

by Rose Facchini Anna Ferrando is a researcher in Contemporary History at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her work explores the relationship between publishing and politics from a transnational perspective, focusing chiefly... Continue Reading →

Friday, August 1, 2025

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JHI 86.3 Now Available Online!

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas is now available to read online, on Project Muse. Table of Contents The Abstract King: Hellenistic Royal Wills and the Immortal StateLuuk de Boer  Rhetoric, Ambivalence, and Dissension in... Continue Reading →

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