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The Ascent of Affect: Emotions Research and the History of Emotions – Interview with Ruth Leys (Part II)

by contributing editors Nuala Caomhánach and Jonas Knatz

The History of Trauma and the Turn From Guilt to Shame – Interview with Ruth Leys (Part I)

by contributing editors Nuala Caomhánach and Jonas Knatz

Gnosticism in Postwar German Philosophy: An Interview with Willem Styfhals

Willem Styfhals is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium, and the author of the new book No Spiritual Investment in the World: Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy (Cornell, 2019; see Amazon and JSTOR). Bridging… Continue Reading →

In Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra about Indian Sex Life and Modern Social Thought

In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, about her new book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial… Continue Reading →

In Theory: John Raimo interviews Gisèle Sapiro on Writers and Politics in France

John Raimo, a founding editor of the JHI Blog and PhD candidate at New York University, interviews Professor Gisèle Sapiro, director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the director of studies at the École des… Continue Reading →

In Theory: Brendan Mackie interviews Joshua Fogel on Friendship and the Intellectual World of Shanghai in the 1930s

Brendan Mackie, a contributing editor for the JHI Blog and the host of “The Making of a Historian” podcast, speaks with Professor Joshua Fogel of York University about his book A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the… Continue Reading →

The Floating Coast: an Interview with Dr. Bathsheba Demuth

By contributing editor Luna Sarti

In Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Christopher Cameron on Black Freethinkers

In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Christopher Cameron, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about his new book Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019).

“We’ll Need More Than Rawlsianism Can Offer”: Katrina Forrester on John Rawls and Anglo-American Political Philosophy after 1945

by contributing editors Anne Schult and Jonas Knatz

French Symbolism and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy

by contributing editor David Kretz

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