Modern Intellectual History

New MIH Issue: Gianna Englert reflects on freedom and regeneration in revolutionary France in her review essay of Geneviève Rousselière’s Sharing Freedom and Emma Planinc’s Regenerative Politics

New MIH Issue: Gianna Englert reflects on freedom and regeneration in revolutionary France in her review essay of Geneviève Rousselière’s Sharing Freedom and Emma Planinc’s Regenerative Politics

New MIH Issue: An aesthetic approach to intellectual history? Introduction to MIH Forum “Isaiah Berlin and the Aesthetics of Liberalism” by Joshua L. Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social and Sarah Collins

New MIH Issue: Structuralist or Lesbian? William M. Burton analyzes Claude Lévi-Strauss and Monique Wittig’s uses of Rousseau’s work as a fulcrum to move beyond binary thought and respond to the political and epistemological challenges of the postwar era

New MIH Issue: Spontaneity and Control? Max Hancock reframes a key moment in the history of neoliberalism by delving into Friedrich Hayek’s and Stafford Beer’s ideas on “self-organization” applied to the design of economic institutions

From MIH Archives: Of savagery and civil society? Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social ‪examines the thought of French anthropologist Pierre Clastres and situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions

New MIH Issue: Spontaneity and Control? Max Hancock reframes a key moment in the history of neoliberalism by delving into Friedrich Hayek’s and Stafford Beer’s ideas on “self-organization” applied to the design of economic institutions

From MIH Archives: Of savagery and civil society? Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social ‪examines the thought of French anthropologist Pierre Clastres and situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions

New MIH Issue: David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social th.bsky.social‬ reconstructs the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of corporate social responsibility

New MIH Issue: Democratic catastrophe? Alec Dinnin analyzes Ortega y Gasset’s postwar political thought and his theorization of European unification as a corrective to the catastrophes of mass democracy

From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his ideas in the North Atlantic during the early 20th century

New MIH Issue: Structuralist or Lesbian? William M. Burton analyzes Claude Lévi-Strauss and Monique Wittig’s uses of Rousseau’s work as a fulcrum to move beyond binary thought and respond to the political and epistemological challenges of the postwar era

New MIH Issue: Politics and economics in fifth-century Athens? Tim Rood analyzes the intersections of ancient and modern imperialism in Alfred Zimmern’s 1911 monograph The Greek Commonwealth bit.ly/41rlLPQ

Now on FirstView: Anti-anthropocentric humanism? Anin Luo historicizes the emergence of nonhuman personhood and the efforts to dismantle liberalism’s anthropocentrism within the context of shifting humanist politics in the 1970s

New MIH Issue: Race in Marshall’s economics? Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social examines how Alfred Marshall used an evolutionary theory of race to ground individual psychology and explain economic behavior in Britain bit.ly/3Q47gu0

Now on FirstView: Why do we care about the Enlightenment? Sylvana Tomaselli @sylvana-tomaselli.bsky.social reflects on the Enlightenment we want in her review essay of J.C.D. Clark’s The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History and Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment bit.ly/4kLQlKC

New MIH Issue: Does liberalism need free will? Timothy Brennan analyzes Augustinianism, Pelagianism, and the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Now on FirstView: A political economy of state intervention and public good? Cailean Gallagher uncovers the French and Jacobite origins of James Steuart’s political economy which troubled Smith and influenced French revolutionaries, Hegel, and Marx

New MIH Issue: Thinking beyond borders? Pablo Soffia analyzes the global scope of Spanish American historical discourse in the Chilean laboratory, 1830–1860

An intellectual history of Anthropocene politics? António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social analyzes French geographer and imperialist André Siegfried’s environmental geopolitics, from the myth of French rural democracy to the collapse of French global power bit.ly/4n9f4Kp

New MIH Issue: Whither theory in a time of surpassing disaster? Three distinct reading experiments in ‘living together with the dead’ with special attention to Palestine and Algeria by Omnia El Shakry. This was the 3rd MIH annual lecture in NYC (2024)