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By contributing editor Luna Sarti This year several events will take place across the world to celebrate Leonardo da Vinci on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. In Florence, where Leonardo lived and worked for several years,… Continue Reading →
Andrew This month I’ve been re-reading Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos, Peter E. Gordon’s brilliant intellectual-historical overview of the famous Cassirer- Heidegger disputation at the International Davos Conference in 1929. While writing my PhD thesis, I drew heavily on the… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Michelle L. Beer Since the 2016 Referendum on Brexit, pundits, economists, and historians have looked for some kind of historical antecedent. They often focus on Henry VIII, who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16thcentury…. Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Jonathon Catlin The New York Consortium for Intellectual History recently hosted Dagmar Herzog (CUNY) for a discussion of her new book, Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (Wisconsin, 2018). Three scholars offered responses: Danilyn… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich This post is a companion piece to Spencer’s article in volume 80, number 1 of JHI, “Hagiography by the Book: Bibliomancy and Early Modern Cultures of Compilation in Francisco Zumel’s De vitis patrum (1588).” He slept, and was… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Andrew Hines How do human beings understand each other? This question has both a linguistic and a political dimension. Last month, as world leaders gathered at the Swiss town of Davos for the Annual Meeting of the World… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Edward Maza In a 1953 letter, Alfred H. Barr Jr.—the founding director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art—wrote: “in our civilization with what seems to be a general decline in religious, ethical, and moral convictions, art… Continue Reading →
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 80, number 1 (January 2019), is now available in print, and online at Project Muse. The table of contents is as follows: Spencer J. Weinreich, “Hagiography by the Book: Bibliomancy… Continue Reading →
Spencer: “Human beings,” wrote Lytton Strachey in the preface to Eminent Victorians (1918), “are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past” (5). And he was as good as his word. Eminent Victorians is indeed a remarkable… Continue Reading →
