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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →