Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If we missed something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments!
Maddy:
The Attack on Charlie Hebdo and the Tradition of Parisian Wit [NY Times]
John:
Vanni Bianconi, “Esseri architettonici ed umani” [Doppiozero]
Phoebe Maltz Bovy, “Straight Outta Chappaqua” [Tablet]
“Wartime Life: Right to Write” [The Economist]
Anthony Grafton, “Reliving the Renaissance” [ NYRB]
Rolf Hosfeld with Christoph Heinemann, “Er konnte in kleinen Dingen Symptome Sehen” [Deutschlandfunk]
Andreas Isenschmid, “Der unerhörte Glanz von Paris” [Zeit]
François Jarrige, “E.P. Thompson, un vie de combat” [La vie des idées]
Thomas Kaufmann, “Gespenstische Bilder” [Süddeutsche Zeitung]
Jennifer Schluessler, “Literature of India, Enshrined in a Series” [NY Times]
Marc Zitzman, “Wie mächtig sind Ideen?” [Neue Zürcher Zeitung]
Paul Buhle and Nick Thorkelson, “You Had to Be There: George Moss in Comics” [Jewish Daily Forward]
Emily:
‘Ferguson Did Not Happen in a Vacuum’ (about an AHA panel on Ferguson) [Chronicle]
The New Modesty in Literary Criticism [Chronicle]
Excerpt from David Konstan, Beauty: The Fortunes of a Greek Idea [Salon]
Terence Ranger and the Jagged Geometry of Zimbabwe [The Con]
Philosophy from the Outside In [Cultural History of Philosophy Blog, QMUL]
George Mosse Finds Himself in Comics [Jewish Daily Forward]
3 replies on “What We’re Reading: Week of Jan. 5”
Great links. I’d add this Nation interview with Marilyn Robinson, in which she makes a fascinating and powerful case for John Calvin as a humanist.
Sorry, here’s the link: http://www.thenation.com/article/194057/conversation-marilynne-robinson.
Ooh, thanks for that! I’m excited to read it.