Modern Intellectual History
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A forum for historians of political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, the social and natural sciences, music, architecture, and the visual arts.
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Now on FirstView: William Godwin as a democrat? Minchul Kim analyzes Godwin’s ideas of democracy and the time-regime of European political thought in the Age of Revolutions
William Godwin on Democracy: The Time-Regime of Political Thought in the Age of Revolutions | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
William Godwin on Democracy: The Time-Regime of Political Thought in the Age of Revolutions
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October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Now on FirstView: William Godwin as a democrat? Minchul Kim analyzes Godwin’s ideas of democracy and the time-regime of European political thought in the Age of Revolutions
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Now on FirstView: The “Woman’s Seed”? Ariane Viktoria Fichtl @threadofariane.bsky.social analyzes the abolitionist cognitive tool “mental metempsychosis” that challenged the concept of the heritability of slavery and was at the heart of immediate abolitionism in Britain
The “Woman’s Seed”: Immediate Abolitionism’s Intellectual Mothers | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
The “Woman’s Seed”: Immediate Abolitionism’s Intellectual Mothers
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Now on FirstView: The “Woman’s Seed”? Ariane Viktoria Fichtl @threadofariane.bsky.social analyzes the abolitionist cognitive tool “mental metempsychosis” that challenged the concept of the heritability of slavery and was at the heart of immediate abolitionism in Britain
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From MIH Archives: Where is British America in the Republic of Letters? Caroline Winterer explores the prospects and limits of digitally mapping the republic of letters and reframing our textual archive in spatial dimensions
WHERE IS AMERICA IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS?* | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
WHERE IS AMERICA IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS?* - Volume 9 Issue 3
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October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
From MIH Archives: Where is British America in the Republic of Letters? Caroline Winterer explores the prospects and limits of digitally mapping the republic of letters and reframing our textual archive in spatial dimensions
Now on FirstView: The “Woman’s Seed”? Ariane Viktoria Fichtl @threadofariane.bsky.social analyzes the abolitionist cognitive tool “mental metempsychosis” that challenged the concept of the heritability of slavery and was at the heart of immediate abolitionism in Britain
The “Woman’s Seed”: Immediate Abolitionism’s Intellectual Mothers | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
The “Woman’s Seed”: Immediate Abolitionism’s Intellectual Mothers
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Now on FirstView: The “Woman’s Seed”? Ariane Viktoria Fichtl @threadofariane.bsky.social analyzes the abolitionist cognitive tool “mental metempsychosis” that challenged the concept of the heritability of slavery and was at the heart of immediate abolitionism in Britain
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“There is no single or unifiable phenomenon describable as ‘the Enlightenment,’ but it is the definite article rather than the noun which is to be avoided.”
The great J.G.A Pocock on historiography and Enlightenment for Modern Intellectual History. Check out his essay here:
The great J.G.A Pocock on historiography and Enlightenment for Modern Intellectual History. Check out his essay here:
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: A VIEW OF THEIR HISTORY | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: A VIEW OF THEIR HISTORY - Volume 5 Issue 1
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August 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“There is no single or unifiable phenomenon describable as ‘the Enlightenment,’ but it is the definite article rather than the noun which is to be avoided.”
The great J.G.A Pocock on historiography and Enlightenment for Modern Intellectual History. Check out his essay here:
The great J.G.A Pocock on historiography and Enlightenment for Modern Intellectual History. Check out his essay here:
Now on FirstView: William Godwin as a democrat? Minchul Kim analyzes Godwin’s ideas of democracy and the time-regime of European political thought in the Age of Revolutions
William Godwin on Democracy: The Time-Regime of Political Thought in the Age of Revolutions | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
William Godwin on Democracy: The Time-Regime of Political Thought in the Age of Revolutions
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October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Now on FirstView: William Godwin as a democrat? Minchul Kim analyzes Godwin’s ideas of democracy and the time-regime of European political thought in the Age of Revolutions
From MIH Archives: Where is British America in the Republic of Letters? Caroline Winterer explores the prospects and limits of digitally mapping the republic of letters and reframing our textual archive in spatial dimensions
WHERE IS AMERICA IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS?* | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
WHERE IS AMERICA IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS?* - Volume 9 Issue 3
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October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
From MIH Archives: Where is British America in the Republic of Letters? Caroline Winterer explores the prospects and limits of digitally mapping the republic of letters and reframing our textual archive in spatial dimensions
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Now on FirstView: DuBois’s Eugenic Democracy? Inder S. Marwah examines how Darwinism, eugenics, and fin de siècle race sciences shaped W. E. B. Du Bois’s early political ideas on race and racial uplift
Du Bois’s Eugenic Democracy | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Du Bois’s Eugenic Democracy
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September 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Now on FirstView: DuBois’s Eugenic Democracy? Inder S. Marwah examines how Darwinism, eugenics, and fin de siècle race sciences shaped W. E. B. Du Bois’s early political ideas on race and racial uplift
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New MIH Issue: Reading the history of money? Carl Wennerlind analyzes the political and ideological theorization of money in his review essay of Stefan Eich’s The Currency of Politics and George Caffentzis’ Civilizing Money
Reading the History of Money: Politically or Ideologically? | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Reading the History of Money: Politically or Ideologically? - Volume 22 Issue 1-2
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August 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New MIH Issue: Reading the history of money? Carl Wennerlind analyzes the political and ideological theorization of money in his review essay of Stefan Eich’s The Currency of Politics and George Caffentzis’ Civilizing Money
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Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906
British Legal Opinion about Immigration and Sovereignty, 1833–1906 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
British Legal Opinion about Immigration and Sovereignty, 1833–1906
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October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906
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Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left
Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years
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September 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left
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Now on FirstView: More Marx, Less Marxism? Ulrich Plass reviews the new Princeton edition of Marx’s Capital (Vol. 1) recently translated by Paul Reitte
More Marx, Less Marxism? Reconsidering Capital, Volume 1, Retranslated by Paul Reitter | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
More Marx, Less Marxism? Reconsidering Capital, Volume 1, Retranslated by Paul Reitter
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September 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Now on FirstView: More Marx, Less Marxism? Ulrich Plass reviews the new Princeton edition of Marx’s Capital (Vol. 1) recently translated by Paul Reitte
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Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
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New MIH Issue: “A Setting Where Things Can Happen”: Benjamin Serby analyzes the International Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation in London and the politics of knowledge production in the 1960s
“A Setting Where Things Can Happen”: The Dialectics of Liberation Congress and the Politics of Knowledge in the 1960s | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
“A Setting Where Things Can Happen”: The Dialectics of Liberation Congress and the Politics of Knowledge in the 1960s - Volume 22 Issue 1-2
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August 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
New MIH Issue: “A Setting Where Things Can Happen”: Benjamin Serby analyzes the International Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation in London and the politics of knowledge production in the 1960s
Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
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Now on FirstView: Ismay Milford examines communication theology, the decolonization of information, and the Africanization of journalism, 1960–1990
Communication Theology, the Decolonization of Information, and the Africanization of Journalism, 1960–1990 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Communication Theology, the Decolonization of Information, and the Africanization of Journalism, 1960–1990
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October 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Now on FirstView: Ismay Milford examines communication theology, the decolonization of information, and the Africanization of journalism, 1960–1990
Now on FirstView: Ismay Milford examines communication theology, the decolonization of information, and the Africanization of journalism, 1960–1990
Communication Theology, the Decolonization of Information, and the Africanization of Journalism, 1960–1990 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Communication Theology, the Decolonization of Information, and the Africanization of Journalism, 1960–1990
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October 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Now on FirstView: Ismay Milford examines communication theology, the decolonization of information, and the Africanization of journalism, 1960–1990
Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906
British Legal Opinion about Immigration and Sovereignty, 1833–1906 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
British Legal Opinion about Immigration and Sovereignty, 1833–1906
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October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906
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Now on FirstView: Losing Control of Tocqueville? Peter Madill and Richard Whatmore examine Jacob Peter Mayer and the genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville
Losing Control of Tocqueville: J. P. Mayer and the Genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Losing Control of Tocqueville: J. P. Mayer and the Genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville
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October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Now on FirstView: Losing Control of Tocqueville? Peter Madill and Richard Whatmore examine Jacob Peter Mayer and the genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville
Now on FirstView: Losing Control of Tocqueville? Peter Madill and Richard Whatmore examine Jacob Peter Mayer and the genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville
Losing Control of Tocqueville: J. P. Mayer and the Genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Losing Control of Tocqueville: J. P. Mayer and the Genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville
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October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Now on FirstView: Losing Control of Tocqueville? Peter Madill and Richard Whatmore examine Jacob Peter Mayer and the genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville
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Now on FirstView: An intellectual history of homeownership? Samuel Zipp analyzes “social property,” managed hierarchy, and the challenge of social selfhood in the early 20th-century U.S.
The Social Organization of Property: The Homeownership System, Managed Hierarchy, and the Challenge of Social Selfhood in the Early Twentieth-Century United States | Modern Intellectual History | Camb...
The Social Organization of Property: The Homeownership System, Managed Hierarchy, and the Challenge of Social Selfhood in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
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October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Now on FirstView: An intellectual history of homeownership? Samuel Zipp analyzes “social property,” managed hierarchy, and the challenge of social selfhood in the early 20th-century U.S.
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New MIH Issue: How has music shaped liberal thought? Sarah Collins analyzes naivety, liberalism, and Isaiah Berlin’s musical thinking
Naivety, Liberalism, and Isaiah Berlin’s Musical Thinking | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Naivety, Liberalism, and Isaiah Berlin’s Musical Thinking - Volume 22 Issue 1-2
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August 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New MIH Issue: How has music shaped liberal thought? Sarah Collins analyzes naivety, liberalism, and Isaiah Berlin’s musical thinking
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Now on FirstView: How can a regime be constituted to provide security and liberty without becoming despotic? Luke Foster analyzes Montesquieu’s case for honor in Publius and Adams during the early U.S. republic
Montesquieu’s Case for Honor in Publius and Adams: Transposing the Society of Orders to the Commercial Republic | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Montesquieu’s Case for Honor in Publius and Adams: Transposing the Society of Orders to the Commercial Republic
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August 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Now on FirstView: How can a regime be constituted to provide security and liberty without becoming despotic? Luke Foster analyzes Montesquieu’s case for honor in Publius and Adams during the early U.S. republic
Now on FirstView: An intellectual history of homeownership? Samuel Zipp analyzes “social property,” managed hierarchy, and the challenge of social selfhood in the early 20th-century U.S.
The Social Organization of Property: The Homeownership System, Managed Hierarchy, and the Challenge of Social Selfhood in the Early Twentieth-Century United States | Modern Intellectual History | Camb...
The Social Organization of Property: The Homeownership System, Managed Hierarchy, and the Challenge of Social Selfhood in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
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October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Now on FirstView: An intellectual history of homeownership? Samuel Zipp analyzes “social property,” managed hierarchy, and the challenge of social selfhood in the early 20th-century U.S.
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Now on FirstView: From markets to planning in promethean discourse? Niklas Olsen and Rasmus Skov Andersen situate the work of famous “skeptical environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg in current climate and environmental debates bit.ly/486IPqq
Situating Bjørn Lomborg in the History of Climate Politics: The Turn from Markets to Planning in Promethean Discourse | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Situating Bjørn Lomborg in the History of Climate Politics: The Turn from Markets to Planning in Promethean Discourse
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October 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Now on FirstView: From markets to planning in promethean discourse? Niklas Olsen and Rasmus Skov Andersen situate the work of famous “skeptical environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg in current climate and environmental debates bit.ly/486IPqq