Thursday, August 29, 2024

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Announcing the Winner of the JHI’s 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize: Melinda Latour

The winner of the JHI's 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize for the best first book in intellectual history is Melinda Latour, for The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574–1652, published by Oxford University... Continue Reading →

Monday, August 19, 2024

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Back to Scholasticism?

by Vigdis Andrea Evang In Europe, scholasticism was the dominant mode of teaching for at least five centuries. Yet all we tend to hear about it is how useless it was. It has come down to us as a joke... Continue Reading →

Monday, August 12, 2024

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Revolutions in the Political Thought of Kant and Hegel: An Interview with Richard Bourke

by Serena Cho Richard Bourke is a Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the political ideas of the Enlightenment, its aftermath, and political theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... Continue Reading →

Thursday, August 8, 2024

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Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Tejas Parasher on M.N. Roy and Parliamentary Democracy in Modern India

by Grant Wong Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought (Cambridge, 2023), the first study of a neglected tradition of... Continue Reading →

Monday, August 5, 2024

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Lessons of the Cold War: The Influence of Leszek Kołakowski on Tony Judt

by Artur Banaszewski and Jacob Saliba In 1987, just a few years before the end of the Cold War, Judith Shklar invited the eminent Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski to deliver a lecture at Harvard University. "Do not feel that you... Continue Reading →

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