In today's think-piece, Julia Meghan Walton examines British-Chinese writer Winnifred Eaton, situating her life and career more broadly through concepts of "passing" and "civilizational equivalence."

In a new think-piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido discusses the thought of 18th-century Catholic friar Joaquín de Finestrad as an attempt to reconcile sacred morality with materialist-oriented discourses of imperial economics and monarchism in South America.

The October issue of the journal includes an article by Ian Merkel: "Laurette Séjourné and Leonora Carrington, Ethnography and Surrealism in Mexico." Read it here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

On today’s episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sophia Rosenfeld on her new book, “The Age of Choice," which explores how the idea of choice became related to what it meant to be free between the early modern period and the 20th century. @princetonupress.bsky.social

The recent issue of the journal includes an article by Wojciech Engelking: "Schmitt's Reinterpretation of Hegel During His Nazi Period." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In this new think piece for the JHI Blog Forum on Political Economy, Vishal Verma studies the historical linkages between labor and caste through the intellectual debates underpinning the origins and evolution of the theorization of caste across time and space. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

The recent issue of the journal includes an article by Hugo Bonin: "'True Liberal Democracy . . . Belongs to Napoléon III': The Rise and Fall of Démocratie Libérale in the French Second Empire" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought. @uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social

The new issue of the JHI includes an article by Craig Martin: "Averroes Among the Paduan Physicians, 1540 to 1600": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Miranda Johnson contributes to the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy with a think piece about how the mythos surrounding New Zealand’s "biculturalism" obscures older indigenous strategies of economic development and centuries-long relations between settlers and indigenous peoples.

The winner of the JHI’s 2024 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize for the best first book in intellectual history is Priyasha Mukhopadhyay for Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire! @princetonupress.bsky.social

For the JHI Blog, Rose Facchini interviewed Gisèle Sapiro about her latest book, "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur mondial? Le champ littéraire transnational" (Seuil, 2024), which studies the role of intermediaries, translators, and mediators in the making of world authorship. @rosefacchini.bsky.social

In the new issue of the JHI, Daniel Sutton explores how ancient Greek theorists struggled to find the terminology to distinguish good and bad forms of popular government: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In a new think piece for the JHI forum on Political Economy, Alexandre Aloy interrogates the concept and historical genealogy of neoliberalism by situating it alongside transnational narratives of authoritarianism.

The new issue of the JHI includes a discussion of the lexicon project, “The Twentieth Century in Basic Concepts: A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany,” by Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, and Falko Schmieder. Access is free for the next few weeks on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Today on the blog, Jacob Saliba interviews Brandon Bloch on his recent book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy." @harvardpress.bsky.social

Nayeli L. Riano's article in the new JHI, "The Pueblo and the Politics of History and Historiography in the Writings of Andrés Bello and Francisco Bilbao," is now available for free. Read it here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In a new think piece for the JHI Forum on Political Economy, Oscar Hughff-Coates discusses Chicago School economist Thomas Sowell and how his work contributed to key discourses on race, post-war economics, and the state in the wake of the neoliberal order.

The JHI's Graduate Student Symposium, "Between the Text and Material History," will be held this Saturday, October 4, on Zoom! Events kick off at 10:00 am Eastern. Check out the complete schedule and register here:

Today on the blog, Jon Catlin interviews Kathryn Brackney on her latest, award-winning book, "Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness" @joncatlin.bsky.social @uwiscpress.bsky.social

A new issue of the journal is now available, with articles by Daniel Sutton, Craig Martin, Nayeli L. Riano, Hugo Bonin, Wojciech Engelking, Ian Merkel, and Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, and Falko Schmieder. Have a look, here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55549 @pennpress.bsky.social

In a new think piece for the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Marek Maj discusses how, before the Soviet Union's détente with the West, Polish scientists attempted to render intellectual labor more efficient by adapting and revising the Western managerial turn to motivation.

Today’s think piece explores how life insurance—often seen as a dry, technical instrument—became a surprising site for negotiating modernity in the colonial world.

Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!

As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.

Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido interviews Beverley Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital (Verso, 2024), which dissects the third volume of Marx's Capital to reveal capital's means of appearance. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas." @mflohr.bsky.social

On today's episode of In Theory, the JHI Blog podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quentin Skinner on his new book, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal." @universitypress.cambridge.org

Registration is now open for the JHI Graduate Student Symposium, to be held on Saturday, October 4 via Zoom. Peruse the program and register to attend:

For the blog, Lilia Endter interviews Mikko Immanen about his most recent book, Adorno's Gamble ( @cornellupress.bsky.social ), which reconstructs and analyzes Adorno's integration and overcoming of the ideas of Weimar-era “conservative revolutionaries” like Klages and Spengler.

In the journal, Victoria Smolkin and Daniel Peris examine how the interactions between two secularist organizations shaped the meaning, direction, and fate, of secularism in interwar Europe. Read the article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In today’s think piece, Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa analyzes how historian Sylvia Murr’s discovery of plagiarism in “the most celebrated work of nineteenth-century Indology” led her to develop an approach to historical discourse that challenges received genealogies of the ‘global’ turn.

Rolf Strøm-Olsen explores how patterns of musical consumption were shaped by the authority of music-critical journalism in "Applied Aesthetics and the Musical Public on the Threshold of Romanticism." Read it here in the latest issue of the JHI: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @rstromolsen.bsky.social

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism. @alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

The JHI newsletter is full of announcements and updates about the journal and blog. Have a quick scroll through the latest here, and subscribe to receive these quarterly newsletters via email: mailchi.mp/115a72d9d762...

In today's think-piece, Sam Chian discusses Immanuel Wallerstein alongside W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of decolonization and Pan-Africanism.

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Ingrid Schreiber: "Egoism and Sociability in the Kantian Public Sphere" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Kaarlo Havu: "Rhetoric, Ambivalence, and Dissension in Renaissance Catholic Europe During the Sixteenth Century": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In today's think piece, Niels Lee analyzes the deeper complexities of Japanese nationalism and settler colonialism within the Pan-Asianist movement at the turn of the century.

The new issue of the JHI includes an article by Luuk de Boer: "The Abstract King: Hellenistic Royal Wills and the Immortal State": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The JHI Blog is seeking additional contributing editors. Learn more about the opportunity here.

The latest issue of the JHI includes an article by Sophie Scott-Brown: "'A Real WEA Tutor': G. D. H. Cole, Socialist Democracy, and the Politics of Persona"—free for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Rose Facchini (@rosefacchini.bsky.social) interviewed Anna Ferrando about the practice of literary agency in Italy before and during World War II, a history that explains the peculiar fact that Fascist Italy ranked among the greatest consumers of foreign literature.

Kirsten Macfarlane's article in the summer issue of the JHI, "Written in the Stars? Alphabets and Angels in Early Modern Europe," is free to read and download for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The latest issue of the journal is now available online, including articles by Luuk de Boer, Kaarlo Havu, Kirsten Macfarlane, Ingrid Schreiber, Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Victoria Smolkin and Daniel Peris, and Sophie Scott-Brown. Happy reading!

Today on the blog, scholars Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne discuss the theoretical intricacies and historical perplexities behind neoconservatism.

In today’s podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam Klug (@samklug.bsky.social) about his recent book, The Internal Colony (@uchicagopress.bsky.social), which explores how the process of decolonization in the 1940s-70s transformed US debates about the role of race in American life.

Today on the blog, M. Fatih Çalışır discusses the mutual reinforcement of statesmanship and intellectual life in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, which broadened and internationalized its epistemologies under the rule of Fazıl Ahmed Pasha.

In today's think piece on the JHI Blog, Brandon Taylor tracks the emergence of the flattening "commercial gaze" in the earliest British East India Company travelogues.

In this interview, Andrew Hartman (@andrewhartman.bsky.social) discusses how the US was a structuring example in Marx's thought and how conditions in the US shaped the reception of Marx's work from the 19th century to the present. His new book is "Karl Marx in America" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).