Monday, January 27, 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 →

Wednesday, January 22, 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 →

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

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JHI 86.1 now available online

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 86, issue 1) is now available online, on Project MUSE. J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in LettersQuentin Skinner Spiritual and Medical Melancholy in Lutheran Responses to Johann Weyer's... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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Towards a Cultural Geology: Merging Material and Conceptual History

by Paul Kurek This post was simultaneously published as the entry for "Geology" on the conceptual history blog Komposita, which was initiated on the occasion of Reinhart Koselleck's centennial. It follows previous cross-published posts by Jonathon Catlin, Disha Karnad Jani, and Sébastien Tremblay. Now that... Continue Reading →

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