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- Against Redeeming Catastrophe: In Memory of Ruth Klüger https://jhiblog.org/2020/12/02/against-redeeming-catastrophe-in-memory-of-ruth-kluger/ 3 comments
- When Was the Age of Information? http://jhiblog.org/2015/08/17/when-was-the-age-of-information/ 3 comments
- East European Intellectual History–Russian Nationalism https://www.jhiblog.org/2024/02/07/east-european-intellectual-history-russian-nationalism-virtual-issue-2-3/ 2 comments truereddit
- On Frankfurt School Critical Theory and Political Economy https://www.jhiblog.org/2024/01/10/on-frankfurt-school-critical-theory-and-political-economy/ 4 comments truereddit
- Behind the Angel of History: An Interview with Annie Bourneuf https://jhiblog.org/2023/09/04/behind-the-angel-of-history-an-interview-with-annie-bourneuf/ 2 comments truereddit
- “Never Again Auschwitz” or “Never Again War”? An Interview with Andrew I. Port https://jhiblog.org/2023/05/02/never-again-auschwitz-or-never-again-war-an-interview-with-andrew-i-port/ 3 comments truereddit
- The Pronouns of History: An Interview with Enzo Traverso https://jhiblog.org/2023/03/24/the-pronouns-of-history-an-interview-with-enzo-traverso/ 2 comments truereddit
- Haitian Terror in Italian Eyes https://jhiblog.org/2023/01/25/haitian-terror-in-italian-eyes/ 2 comments truereddit
- The Atlantic Realists: An Interview with Matthew Specter (Part I) https://jhiblog.org/2022/10/19/the-atlantic-realists-an-interview-with-matthew-specter-part-i/ 4 comments truereddit
- "In other words, an important lesson we can draw from Hans Blumenberg’s writings on myth is that the dangerous political myths of our own times as well as those of the past can only be countered by inventing new myths, telling better stories, and writing more convincing histories." https://jhiblog.org/2019/09/11/hans-blumenberg-on-political-myth-and-the-apocalypse/ 91 comments philosophy
- Nomadology, Deleuze and Guattari posited, "was recognizable as a state of 'becoming, heterogeneity, infinitesimal, passage to the limit, continuous variation' (363), which in social organization presented itself as a rhizome structure instead of being centralized around a power core." https://jhiblog.org/2019/03/11/time-travelers-part-iii-nomadic-thought-and-the-creation-of-new-utopias/ 5 comments philosophy
- History Film: Another Form of Doing History https://jhiblog.org/2022/10/05/history-film-another-form-of-doing-history-an-interview-with-robert-rosenstone/ 3 comments truereddit
- Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics (Part Two) https://jhiblog.org/2022/10/03/interview-with-sarah-shortall-soldiers-of-god-in-a-secular-world-catholic-theology-and-twentieth-century-french-politics-part-two/ 2 comments truereddit
- “The objective requires the subjective as a foil if it is to play the scientific role late nineteenth-century philosophers assigned to it, not to mention to become accessible through our perceptual apparatus in new kinds of mathematical and logical symbolism.” https://jhiblog.org/2019/12/16/french-symbolism-and-the-origins-of-analytic-philosophy/ 73 comments philosophy
- Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics https://jhiblog.org/2022/09/28/soldiers-of-god-in-a-secular-world-catholic-theology-and-twentieth-century-french-politics-an-interview-with-sarah-shortall-part-one/ 2 comments truereddit
- "The abstract “idea” takes shape through concrete material processes of scribbling and copying. As Friedrich Nietzsche famously conceded to his friend Heinrich Köselitz a century later, 'You are right — our writing tools take part in the forming of our thoughts.'" https://jhiblog.org/2019/04/17/ruminant-machines-a-twentieth-century-episode-in-the-material-history-of-ideas/ 13 comments philosophy
- "The Vienna Circle was, in its way, as opposed to epistemology as it was to metaphysics. Their project was not to explain how rational finite subjects can cognize objects but to exhibit a purely formal or structural conception of objectivity sufficient to demonstrate the unity of all sciences." https://jhiblog.org/2020/08/05/why-did-the-frankfurt-school-misunderstand-logical-positivism/ 26 comments philosophy
- The Far Right in Contemporary France: An Interview with Sarah Shurts https://jhiblog.org/2022/09/16/far-right-in-contemporary-france-interview-sarah-shurts/ 2 comments truereddit
- Morris R. Cohen's Critical Lessons in Legal Reasoning https://jhiblog.org/2022/08/29/morris-r-cohens-critical-lessons-in-legal-reasoning/ 4 comments truereddit
- War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices https://jhiblog.org/2022/08/26/war-a-genealogy-of-western-ideas-and-practices-an-interview-with-beatrice-heuser/ 2 comments truereddit
- "However, one may as well argue that perhaps the most unique feature of the Spanish-speaking reception of Machiavelli’s work, at least when compared to what has been written for the English-speaking Atlantic world, was the importance given to his views as a theoretician of the modern state." https://jhiblog.org/2022/08/22/machiavelli-in-the-spanish-speaking-atlantic-world-1880-1940/ 2 comments philosophy
- “Adam Smith has been constantly reappropriated by different political tribes since the 1980s, from the Chicago School […] to American liberals […]. Smith’s position is too nuanced and complex to fit in any of these categories neatly.” https://jhiblog.org/2022/07/27/the-political-thought-of-adam-smith-an-interview-with-paul-sagar/ 54 comments philosophy
- “More important than the question whether I believe in the existence of God or not, is the question whether I believe in the concept of God. I do believe in the concept, and I think that this belief is essential because it prompts man to go beyond himself and search for justice and perfection.” https://jhiblog.org/2022/07/18/subaltern-politics-and-the-question-of-being-an-interview-with-ranajit-guha%EF%BF%BC/ 32 comments philosophy
- „For Weil, workers’ experience is what ought to inform political ends and means: she has no doubt that people will organize […]. This […], she argues, comes from a […] sense of obligation humans have toward one another, founded on the needs of the human body and soul.“ https://jhiblog.org/2018/01/08/nazi-punching-or-simone-weil-on-resistance-and-the-organized-left/ 3 comments philosophy
- “Overall, the synthesis of Weil’s life and work creates a model for how, amid unprecedented suffering, the individual can seek to be a force of and for good in the world. Like Weil, we should not seek validation in our service to others but should desire to become instruments or vehicles of love.” https://jhiblog.org/2022/05/06/simone-weil-on-attention-in-times-of-affliction/ 5 comments philosophy
- "Hegel’s dialectic, a system of science grounded in the Absolute Knowing of the Phenomenology, hardly begins before it must circle back into the territory of poetry. In trying to sublate the poem, it reveals its own affinity with it, its own mimetic dependence on literature." (Ivan Boldyrev) https://jhiblog.org/2022/03/21/take-the-time-to-end-schiller-hegel-and-the-dangers-of-poetry/ 29 comments philosophy
- “At the brink of a scientific revolution, history reveals itself as a discontinuous, radically open movement. It is this instant when everyday affairs cease to continue—and the world outside the laboratory becomes a different planet.” https://jhiblog.org/2022/04/27/laboratory-life-juri-lotman-on-scientific-revolutions/ 2 comments philosophy
- Stuck in Port: Global Logistics and Recent Economic Crises https://jhiblog.org/2022/03/30/stuck-in-port-global-logistics-and-recent-economic-crises/ 2 comments truereddit
- “a philosophy purportedly obsessed with the ends (of art, or history) and with the final resolutions, a philosophy that seems to have left poetry behind, demonstrates how open and uncertain the ending of its own prose might be.” https://jhiblog.org/2022/03/21/take-the-time-to-end-schiller-hegel-and-the-dangers-of-poetry/ 2 comments philosophy
- "If you compare the capitalism of the mid-19th century with present-day capitalism, you can see a great number of differences [...]. [But] the categories of Marx’s critique of political economy are very well suited to provide an exact analysis of these changes." https://jhiblog.org/2020/11/25/marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society/ 168 comments philosophy
- "Transcendence—characterized by a fundamental openness to God and the world—is, for Pieper, humanity’s natural antidote to the spirit-crushing dominion of 'the workaday world.'" https://jhiblog.org/2021/12/13/to-pierce-the-dome-josef-pieper-on-transcendence-in-post-war-germany/ 20 comments philosophy
- Women and the History of International Thinking https://jhiblog.org/2022/03/09/women-and-the-history-of-international-thinking/ 2 comments truereddit
- "Lukács’s conclusion in “Tactics and Ethics” was that one may not murder, but sometimes must (and he did go on to engage in revolutionary violence during the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic)." https://jhiblog.org/2022/03/04/isaac-nakhimovsky-on-georg-lukacs-and-revolutionary-realpolitik/ 37 comments philosophy
- The Influence of Indigenous Knowledge on Modern Thought https://jhiblog.org/2022/02/28/isaiah-lorado-wilner-on-the-influence-of-indigenous-knowledge-on-modern-thought/ 9 comments anthropology
- "What we may at very least have to concede at this point is that in its diversification, the political and ideological landscape around us has outpaced the vocabulary available to describe it." https://jhiblog.org/2022/01/21/left-liberal-or-social-democrat-traversing-political-affiliation-in-recent-us-intellectual-history/ 17 comments philosophy
- “You Know It’s Fake, Right?” Fandom and the Idea of Legitimacy in Professional Wrestling https://jhiblog.org/2022/01/10/you-know-its-fake-right-fandom-and-the-idea-of-legitimacy-in-professional-wrestling/ 39 comments truereddit
- Math as “One of the Great Humanities”: Cassius Keyser, Doctrinal Functions, and the Valuing of American Mathematics https://jhiblog.org/2021/10/04/math-as-one-of-the-great-humanities-cassius-keyser-doctrinal-functions-and-the-valuing-of-american-mathematics/ 2 comments math
- “Civil War Is the Ongoing Condition of Democracy”: Reflections on Nicole Loraux | Bruce J Krajewski https://jhiblog.org/2021/03/29/civil-war-is-the-ongoing-condition-of-democracy-reflections-on-nicole-loraux/ 17 comments philosophy
- "Hopefully, Jean Améry’s and Hannah Arendt’s rejection of the flight into illusory worlds and the corresponding blindness towards social and historical reality will be heard—it has not lost its relevance." https://jhiblog.org/2021/03/15/arendt-amery-and-the-public-intellectual/ 3 comments philosophy
- The Woman as Work Machine: Gender and Anticommunism in Postwar Germany https://jhiblog.org/2021/01/13/the-woman-as-work-machine/ 77 comments history