Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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Year in Review: Best of 2025

by the Primary Editors This selection of essays and interviews reflects the wide range of scholarship published here on the blog in 2025. Featured image: Plantstudie from Karl Blossfeldt's Urformen der Kunst (1928), courtesy of Rijksmuseum.

Monday, December 29, 2025

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Three Meanings of Political Economy: Reflections on Intellectual History, Marxism, and Capitalism's Unthought

by Nate Holdren In his post to open this Forum on political economy, Mikkel Flohr argues that Marxism can help us to treat "ideas as socially embedded, historically conditioned, and politically effective." I agree completely with Flohr's valuable contribution. In... Continue Reading →

Monday, December 22, 2025

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Mind, Matter, and the Question of Materialist Intellectual History

by Alec Israeli In the debate between Samuel Moyn and Peter Gordon in Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History on "contextualism" in the history of ideas, there are a few key points of convergence: they each reject notions both of ideas'... Continue Reading →

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Friday, December 19, 2025

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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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Beyond Misplaced Ideas: Latin American Perspectives on Intellectual History and Political Economy

by David Vertty Though the return of political economy in historical studies is now widely acknowledged, intellectual historians have only begun to assess one of its most promising fields of inquiry: the central role that Latin America has played in... Continue Reading →

Monday, December 15, 2025

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The Margins of the Field: Rediscovering Agricultural Economists for the History of Ideas

by Federico D'Onofrio In 1920, the agricultural economist and Social-Revolutionary politician, Aleksandr Chayanov published, under the pseudonym Ivan Kremnev, The Journey of My Brother Aleksei into the Land of Peasant Utopia. In this science fiction novella, the protagonist falls asleep... Continue Reading →

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