A tremendous pleasure interviewing Brandon Bloch on his new book! We discuss not only the nature and practice of religious nationalism in modern Germany but also how religion has animated, transformed, and negotiated the future—and ultimate limits—of secular politics today.

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.

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

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:

Pre-order is officially available for our expansive volume on the influential Hegelian philosopher Alexandre Kojève and his friend the Jesuit theologian Gaston Fessard. For the first time in English, this volume includes their letters and writings over four decades. www.amazon.com/Authority-Hi...

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

We're now accepting proposals for the JHI Graduate Student Symposium, to be held via Zoom on October 4. This year's symposium, “Between the Text and Material History," will explore how historians’ engagement with visual and material sources extends the discipline’s intellectual realms.

Today on the blog, Thomas Cryer interviews David Weinfeld on his latest book, "An American Friendship." They discuss the role of friendship in reconstructing the pluralist thought of Horace Kallen and Alain Locke.

JHI Blog welcomes submissions for a forum on the relationship between new work in intellectual history and political economy. Submit a proposal by May 15. Read the call here:

In today's think piece, Sam Chian provides an original and intellectually rich portrait of the early years of famed American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein.

Part two of our interview with intellectual historian Elias Palti is out! We take up more contemporary stakes, challenges, and opportunities in the field today.

A great pleasure convening this @jhideas.bsky.social interview with award-winning intellectual historian Elias Palti on his latest book, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. Please enjoy! (Pt. II of this interview will be made available on Wednesday!)

ACHA President @anthonyb1939.bsky.social interviewed Film Director Martin Scorsese in an ACHA exclusive event at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Be on the look out for the transcript of this conversation. He received the ACHA’s Distinguished Service Award. #ACHA2025

The great @anthonyb1939.bsky.social with Martin Scorsese at the Basilica of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral @achahistory.bsky.social #ACHA2025 #ACHA25 #AHA2025 #AHA25

It’s always a great pleasure to present at the annual @achahistory.bsky.social and this year’s conference was extra special after winning a small raffle—a ‘support Catholic schools’ pin. (I confess that there was a Pope John Paul II vintage baseball card that had my eye… maybe next year.)

Our newsletter includes round-up of recent JHI Blog posts and a some of the year’s most-read journal articles, which are freely available for the next few weeks: mailchi.mp/742b2d4d8001... Have a look—and resolve to submit an article or blog post to the journal or JHI Blog in the new year!

A new virtual issue of the JHI highlights recent publications of relevance to French intellectual history since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024...

My peer-reviewed article on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain's decisive role during WWII as co-founder and president of the Free French University, a hub for intellectuals in exile including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alexandre Koyré, Jean Wahl, and others! crossworks.holycross.edu/jgc/vol9/iss...

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In today’s think-piece, primary editors Artur Banaszewski and Jacob Saliba discuss the influence of Leszek Kołakowski on Tony Judt’s interpretation of the Cold War. www.jhiblog.org/2024/08/05/l...

Today the blog features Steven Shapin writing on Bruno Latour. This piece is drawn from Shapin's talk at the Harvard symposium “Thinking after Latour," honoring the memory of Bruno Latour and reflecting on his work. www.jhiblog.org/2024/10/28/a...