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JHI 86.4 now available The latest issue of the journal is now available! Read the October 2025 issue on Project Muse. Table of Contents What Should We Call a Bad Democracy?DANIEL SUTTON Averroes Among the Paduan Physicians, 1540 to 1600CRAIG MARTIN The Pueblo and... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 30, 2025

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The Brain as Economy: Intellectual Labor and Mental Efficiency in Twentieth-Century Poland by Marek Maj In mid-twentieth-century Poland, two philosophers—Stefan Rudniański and his son Jarosław—devoted themselves to spreading ideas and techniques of mental productivity and efficiency among the country's students and growing class of white-collar workers. Their intellectual projects showed a remarkable... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 29, 2025

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Cashing Lives: A History of Indian Life Insurance by Mayukh Chakrabarty In 1872, Sir Richard Temple, then the Finance Member in Governor-General's Council, proposed a plan to initiate a state-run life insurance scheme, particularly targeting the 'native' population. This was in reaction to the successive failures of two... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 24, 2025

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Hegel's “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context by Marie Louise Krogh The history of those commodities that populate everyday life is very often one of connections between seemingly disparate contexts. For most of us, it is commonplace knowledge that a large part of the goods we consume... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 22, 2025

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Capital's Singular Dynamic: An Interview with Beverley Best by Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido In The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital (Verso, 2024), Beverley Best places the logical core of Marx's value theory at the heart of Capital, volume III, first by reconstructing his dissection of the... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 17, 2025

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The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas by Mikkel Flohr This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History." The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living (Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire,... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 15, 2025

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Liberty as Independence: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Quentin Skinner by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quentin Skinner on his new book Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal (Cambridge University Press, 2025). In this book, Skinner traces how liberty as... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 10, 2025

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JHI Graduate Student Symposium, “Between the Text and Material History”: Registration Now Open Registration is now open for the 2025 JHI Graduate Student Symposium, "Between the Text and Material History." The symposium will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025.Register now to attend via Zoom. Any questions? Reach out to blogjhi@gmail.com. Between the... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 9, 2025

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Why Adorno Read His Enemies: An Interview with Mikko Immanen by Lilia Endter Mikko Immanen is an Academy Research Fellow in the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research focuses on modern German and European intellectual history. He has published two books with Cornell University... Continue Reading → by Ida Stewart on September 4, 2025

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The Franco-Indian Enlightenment of Sylvia Murr by Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa In 1971, the historian Sylvia Murr (1947–2002) encountered a curious textual problem in the archives of the British Library. Murr was developing a new edition of Hindu Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies (1817), a survey of Indian... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on September 2, 2025

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