In this think piece, Gray Black exposes the conceptual apparatuses through which human institutions justify and perpetuate the oppression of the non-human.

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In today's article, Faridah Zaman reflects on how the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924 sparked a renewed interest in the republican ideal of Islamic political thought.

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In today's think piece, Manar Ellethy explains the role that documentary films and television played in the social activism of Black women in the 1960s in the United States.

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In today's think piece, Martina Garategaray studies the place of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Socialist International, under Willy Brandt, in establishing social democracy in Latin America as an attempt to break away from Eurocentricism.

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In today’s think piece, Facundo Rocca considers the philosophical processes of change in theorizing labor during the French Revolution, which were at the origins of socialism.

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Today on the blog, Alexander Collin interviews Benjamin Woodford about his recent JHI article, “The right we have to our owne bodies, goods, and liberties: The Freedom of the Ancient Constitution and Common Law in Milton’s Early Prose”

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In this interview with Christopher Markiewicz, Nilab Saeedi asks how ideas and intellectual transfers shaped ideas about kingship in late medieval Islam.

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Anthropologist David Scott reflects on his unexpected journey incorporating Reinhart Koselleck’s theory of history into his influential studies of Caribbean anticolonial revolutions and their aftermaths.

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Shal Marriott (Shal Marriott) discusses with Samuel Moyn (@samuelmoyn) his latest book, Liberalism against Itself (@yalepress 2023). They talk political theory, historical analysis, the role of novels in Cold War liberalism, and more.

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And Part Two of the interview explores how new histories of the Anthropocene have troubled inherited notions of modernity, humanity, and progress, concluding with reflections on the role of historians of ideas in this urgent moment.

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Chaplin continues the discussion in an interview on the blog. Part One explores the shifting of disciplinary boundaries and collaborations prompted by scholarly engagements with the climate crisis.

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What epoch is it? The ICS geologists say we're still in the Holocene. To understand all this, we’re revisiting Joyce Chaplin's recent review essay that situates the #Anthropocene concept in the context of the history of ideas.

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John Abromeit responds to W. Scheuerman & Chris O'Kane on the centenary of the Frankfurt School, presenting critical theory as 'critical historicism' & centering Horkheimer's notion of 'dialectic of bourgeois society.' Edits by @planedenken

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Why have so many historians been surprised by the rise of right-wing market radicalism? Dennis Kölling explains the pitfalls of focusing on conventional academic career paths in writing the intellectual histories of libertarianism and neoliberalism.
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Auschwitz and Absolution (Orbis, 2023) examines the final confession of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss. At a recent panel, James Bernauer, S.J. remarked on the book with responses in Jewish theology, philosophy, Buddhism, and feminist theory. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024/0…

Samuel Huneke (Sam C H 🏳️‍🌈 George Mason University) speaks with Jonathon Catlin (@planetdenken) on his new book, 'A Queer Theory of the State' (@ColumbiaUP), which calls for queer theory to overcome its anarcho-libertarian 'Foucauldian hangover.'
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In this interview with Jonas Bakkeli Eide, Ismay Milford discusses the global trajectories of East and Central African anticolonial activists and the future of the intellectual history of anticolonialism.

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In the latest installment of our series of interviews with JHI authors, Nuala Caomhanach (Nuala Caomhanach) interviews Felix Schlichter about his recent article, 'Euhemerus and Euhemerism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' (volume 84, issue 4).

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In today's think piece, Anna Bottesi considers the place and relevance of virtual museum experiences vis-à-vis the wider history of museums. Can we continue to refer to them as “museums'?
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