From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Damian Shaw and Matthew Gibson (Macau) discuss a scripture-based denial of vampires by Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena in the 1730s: doi.org/10.1080/019165…

From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Po-Yu Wei (Wenzhou-Kean University) examines the depiction of French ragout in eighteenth-century English literature and how it reflected Anglo-French rivalries: doi.org/10.1080/019165…

It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins , Dominique Kirchner Reill , Samuel Moyn 🔭 , Or Rosenboim, Hannah Dawson , Anton Jäger , Daniel Zamora Vargas issforum.org/essays/h-diplo…

[Open Access!] From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Jack Haughton (Cambridge) discusses Roger Scruton's Aristotelian understanding of aesthetics Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation. doi.org/10.1080/019165…

Congratulations to the editors and contributors on this Critical Guide, now in stock, which offers in-depth studies of #Hume’s wide-ranging, readable and very influential ‘Essays’ and assesses their place among his works and in #intellectualhistory more broadly

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Eva Piirimäe for her book Herder and Enlightenment Politics (CUP). intellectualhistory.net/istvan-hont-bo…

[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata), “When the giants freak out: the birth of the mind from the matter of the imagination in Vico’s Scienza nuova” IHR (2024). doi.org/10.1080/174969…

[Open Access!] From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Andrew Walker (Cambridge) reviewed Eva Piirimäe's Herder and Enlightenment Politics (Cambridge, 2023) for HEI here: doi.org/10.1080/019165…

From vol. 50 iss. 7: Christopher Adair-Toteff (Southern Florida) pens a review essay on the recent two-volume Nietzsche-Kommentar: doi.org/10.1080/019165…

From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: J. C. Walmsley's review of Jeffrey R. Collins's In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience (Cambridge, 2020). doi.org/10.1080/019165…

From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: William J. Bulman (Lehigh) reviews Mark Goldie's Contesting the English Polity 1660-1688: Religion, Politics, and Ideas (Boydell, 2023) for HEI here: doi.org/10.1080/019165…

[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] David Guerrero (University of Barcelona), ““You are a bad boy to keep sending me pretty books”: Harold Laski, Justice Holmes, and the origins of free speech as a “marketplace of ideas”” IHR (2024). doi.org/10.1080/174969…

New take on Republican hegemony as perpetual peace? Sieyès’s theory of international politics and the intellectual origins of Kant’s “federation of peoples” ⁦@AHarwoodBrown⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

[🆕NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE 🔓 (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Andreas Rydberg (Uppsala University), “Impartial observations of a sensible mind” IHR (2024). doi.org/10.1080/174969…

[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Andreas Blank (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), “Mably on historiography and the cure of the imagination,” IHR (2024). doi.org/10.1080/174969….

Just the right side of 2025, I've reviewed David Caute's Red List (Verso, 2022) for History of European Ideas. Domestic surveillance isn't glamorous or, often, based on much more than a hunch lefties are worthy of suspicion. Free access below. tandfonline.com/eprint/SIMXYED…

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[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] J. Colin McQuillan (St. Mary’s University, San Antonio), “Kant’s warning about self-observation in Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View,” IHR (2024). doi.org/10.1080/174969….

New interview with Dagmar Herzog. Listen here: intellectualhistory.net/new-work/the-q… Robin Mills Princeton University Press

New episode out now! intellectualhistory.net/german-ih-list…