Brexit, the English Reformation, and Transnational Queenship
By Contributing Writer Michelle L. Beer Since the 2016 Referendum on Brexit, pundits, economists, and historians have looked for some kind
February Reading Recommendations, Part 1
Andrew This month I’ve been re-reading Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos, Peter E. Gordon’s brilliant intellectual-historical overview of the famous
A German Olive Tree in Barcelona: Textual Truths and Religious Consequences
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich This post is a companion piece to Spencer’s article in volume 80, number 1 of JHI,
How do we understand each other? The Contemporary Relevance of Cassirer’s and Heidegger’s Historic Disputation at Davos
By contributing editor Andrew Hines How do human beings understand each other? This question has both a linguistic and a political
MoMA from Modernity into the Post Modern
By guest contributor Edward Maza In a 1953 letter, Alfred H. Barr Jr.—the founding director of New York’s Museum of
JHI 80:1 Available!
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 80, number 1 (January 2019), is now available in
January Reading Recommendations
Spencer: “Human beings,” wrote Lytton Strachey in the preface to Eminent Victorians (1918), “are too important to be treated as
Sweet Illusions: The Colonial Still Life in the Age of Chocolate Exchange
By Contributing Writer Isabella Lores-Chavez The objects in the painted cupboard by Antonio Pérez de Aguilar are under lock and
