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In Memoriam: Anson Rabinbach (1945–2025) by Stefanos Geroulanos This text was prepared for, and first published in, the Mosse Program Blog. It is reprinted here with their permission. In May 2008, we had dinner somewhere on Sixth Avenue. I can't remember what we ate, nor what... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on February 19, 2025

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The Revolutionary Temper: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Robert Darnton by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Robert Darnton, Professor Emeritus and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard University, about his recent book, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 (W. W. Norton, 2024), also published in French translation: L'humeur... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on February 17, 2025

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Folk Revivalism: The Case of Raibenshe, a Martial Dance from Bengal by Sujaan Mukherjee "What do you remember of your grandfather's meeting with Gurusaday Dutt?", one of our team members had asked Madhab Pramanik, a Raibenshe practitioner, then in his late-50s. We were interviewing him as part of a project titled... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on February 12, 2025

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Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti (Part II) by Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter In Part I of this interview, we explored the overarching design of Elías Palti's argument as well as unpacked what and whom he saw as the early stages and pioneering thinkers of the field... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on February 5, 2025

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Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti (Part I) by Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter In this interview, primary editors Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter speak with award-winning and internationally recognized intellectual historian Elías Palti on his most recent work, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change (Cambridge... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on February 3, 2025

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Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell By Alexander Aerts In 1918 the Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) was caught selling soap on the black-market in Moscow by the Tchèka, the political police of the Bolshevik party. After Kojève's stepfather was killed by raiding peasants in 1917,... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on January 27, 2025

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Economies of Exchange: Social Death and Female Slaves in Early Archaic Greece by Shreya Dua Background and Research Question The date of the beginning of Archaic Greece remains contested among scholars. It's culmination, however, coincides with that of the Persian Wars. Broadly speaking, the period lies between 800-480 BCE. It is of... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on January 22, 2025

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