Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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Fazıl Ahmed Pasha and the Politics of Knowledge: In Conversation with M. Fatih Çalışır

by Nilab Saeedi In this interview, Nilab Saeedi speaks with M. Fatih Çalışır about the intellectual life of the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, where knowledge was not only preserved or encouraged but deliberately used to shape governance. Their interview centers on... Continue Reading →

Monday, July 14, 2025

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Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire

by Brandon Taylor Not all empires began with conquest or Christian conversion. Before an empire can conquer, it has to count stock. As travel narratives from the early days of the English East India Company—1601 to 1611—show, the mature form... Continue Reading →

Monday, June 30, 2025

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Marx's Reception in the United States: An Interview with Andrew Hartman

by Alec Israeli In Karl Marx in America (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Andrew Hartman offers a history of Karl Marx's role as "ghost in the machine" of American life and thought. Beginning with the significance of Marx's observations of... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

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Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg about his new book, Spaces of Anti-Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (University of Georgia Press, 2025). In the book, Legg provides a study of Indian anti-colonialism in the... Continue Reading →

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

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Announcing the Martin Jay Article Prize for Graduate Students

Celebrating the profoundly influential historian Martin Jay and his contribution to graduate education, this new award recognizes the best graduate student-authored article accepted for publication in the Journal of the History of Ideas each year. When submitting articles to the journal, authors... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

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The Architects of Dignity: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Kevin Pham

by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Kevin Pham, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, about his recent book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024).  In... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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"Language and Image Minus Cognition": An Interview with Leif Weatherby

by Robin Manley Leif Weatherby is an Associate Professor of German at New York University, where he directs the Digital Theory Lab. Robin Manley spoke with Dr. Weatherby about his latest book, Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder... Continue Reading →

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