Modern Intellectual History

Now on FirstView: Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social reexamines the relationship between Jeremy Bentham and Edward Gibbon Wakefield through the lens of one of Bentham’s last projects: “Colonization Company Proposal” (1831)

Now on FirstView: Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social reexamines the relationship between Jeremy Bentham and Edward Gibbon Wakefield through the lens of one of Bentham’s last projects: “Colonization Company Proposal” (1831)

Now on FirstView: The bear in the room and the civilizing process? Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social discusses the historical narratives of “the West” and “Europe” in his review essay of Georgios Varouxakis’s The West: The History of an Idea and Anthony Pagden’s The Pursuit of Europe: A History

Now on FirstView: The bear in the room and the civilizing process? Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social discusses the historical narratives of “the West” and “Europe” in his review essay of Georgios Varouxakis’s The West: The History of an Idea and Anthony Pagden’s The Pursuit of Europe: A History

Now on FirstView: Timothy Scott Johnson interrogates the relationship between empire, decolonization, and sociology in France in his review essay of George Steinmetz’s The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought and Amín Pérez’s Bourdieu and Sayad against Empire

Now on FirstView: Conservative Arab thought after Islam? Ahmed Dailami reconstructs the intellectual history of the Arab right through the work of philosopher Mohammed Jaber al-Ansari in the late 20th century

Now on FirstView: Timothy Scott Johnson interrogates the relationship between empire, decolonization, and sociology in France in his review essay of George Steinmetz’s The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought and Amín Pérez’s Bourdieu and Sayad against Empire

Now on FirstView: Conservative Arab thought after Islam? Ahmed Dailami reconstructs the intellectual history of the Arab right through the work of philosopher Mohammed Jaber al-Ansari in the late 20th century

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

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

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

“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:

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

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

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

Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906

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

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

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

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

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

Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906

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

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.

New MIH Issue: How has music shaped liberal thought? Sarah Collins analyzes naivety, liberalism, and Isaiah Berlin’s musical thinking