by Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa Modern philosophy, wrote Michel Foucault, can be understood as an ongoing attempt to confront a question raised two centuries ago: what is Enlightenment? In The Rest Is Silence, Columbia Professor of French Joanna Stalnaker reverses the... Continue Reading →
by Rex Butler Ian Hunter is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is an intellectual historian who has published various studies in the history of philosophical, political, legal,... Continue Reading →
by Soumyadeep Guha The idea of the “cooperative” is making a comeback. The Scottish Parliament has recently passed the Community Wealth Building Bill, which aims to ensure that local businesses, including cooperatives, prioritize local needs and that distant shareholders do... Continue Reading →
Check out the new issue of the journal—volume 87, issue 3—on Project MUSE! "Free Democracy" and "Restricted Democracy" in the Holy Roman Empire of the German NationMarkku Peltonen Mixing Labour and Mixed Property: The Law of Locke's Original AppropriationJoshua Freed ... Continue Reading →
by Disha Karnad Jani For this episode of the In Theory podcast, Navyug Gill speaks with Disha Karnad Jani about his book Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab (Stanford University Press, 2024) and how it... Continue Reading →
by Alexander Aerts The idea of the “end of history” is commonly regarded as a statement on the foreclosure of any political alternatives for the future. Francis Fukuyama (in)famously stated in 1989, after the dissolution of real existing communism of... Continue Reading →
by the JHI Community For our Summer 2026 installment of the JHI Blog’s Reading Recommendations, we asked members of the JHI community to recommend a text related to intellectual history, broadly conceived. Responses have been lightly edited for clarity. Sunil... Continue Reading →