Paul et Virginie, or the Misfortune of Religious Enlightenment
by guest contributor Marco Menin Paul et Virginie, or the Misfortune of Religious Enlightenment The first time I read Paul et Virginie I was nearly ten years old, attending elementary school in a small...
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A German Olive Tree in Barcelona: Textual Truths and Religious Consequences
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich This post is a companion piece to Spencer’s article in volume 80, number 1 of JHI, “Hagiography by the Book: Bibliomancy and Early Modern Cultures of Compilation in...
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Ruminant machines: a twentieth-century episode in the material history of ideas
Chris Korner/Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach This essay is a companion piece by Daniela K. Helbig for the article, ‘Life without toothache’, in the latest issue of the Journal of the History of...
View ArticleReturn of the King? Monarchy in American Thought
By Zach Bates This is a companion essay to the author’s “The Idea of Royal Empire and the Imperial Crown of England, 1542–1698”, published in the January 2019 edition of the JHI. [mc4wp_form...
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Hegel and the Sphinx: The Riddle of World History
By Nicholas Germana Professor Germana’s essay “The Creuzerstreit and Hegel’s Philosophy of History” is in the most recent Journal of the History of Ideas. [mc4wp_form id=”12317″] In his July 2002...
View ArticleTransitions, Thresholds, Traditions. Hans Blumenberg and Historical Thought
By Daniel Weidner This is a companion piece to Daniel Weidner’s recent article in the Journal of the History of Ideas, ‘The History of Dogma and the Story of Modernity: The Modern Age as the “Second...
View ArticleIn Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast
By Co-Hosts Simon Brown and Disha Karnad Jani In the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with several scholars on their new and forthcoming work, and we’ve found these conversations...
View Article“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Menasseh?”
By Professor Steven Nadler Read Professor Nadler’s full article from this season’s JHI, “Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions.” It just goes to show: even a rabbi can sometimes bend the...
View ArticleRecycled Words: An Eco-Friendly Alternative to Original Literature
By Justin Willson This is a companion piece to the author’s article, “A Meadow that Lifts the Soul: Originality as Anthologizing in the Byzantine Church Interior,” published in the January 2020 issue...
View ArticleThree responses to Samuel Moyn’s “Hannah Arendt among the Cold War Liberals”
By Seyla Benhabib, Andrew Gibson, and Artur Banaszewski The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (issue 84, volume 3, July 2023) features the article by Samuel Moyn “Hannah Arendt among...
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