Tejas Parasher
Tejas Parasher
This article offers a new interpretation of anti-colonial constitutional thought of the mid-twentieth century. Historians and political theorists have long viewed the circulation of democratic constitutions at the moment of decolonization i...
Stuart Elden
Stuart Elden
The biographical links between Michel Foucault and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges Dumézil have received more attention than their intellectual connections. This article contributes by surveying Foucault's engagements, ...
Seeing the Future through a Kaleidoscope: Uses of Morphological Type in Michelet's National and Natural Histories [0.03%]
透过万花筒看未来:米谢雷民族史与自然史中的形态类型运用
Agatha Seo-Hyun Kim
Agatha Seo-Hyun Kim
Michelet combined various models of morphology to build his own model of history and nature. In this model, Michelet used the concept of organic type in multiple senses and timelines, creating the dream of a predetermined, ideal future of F...
"Facts" and "Ideas": Richard Jones, William Whewell, and the Entangled Histories of Science and Political Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain [0.03%]
“事实”与“观念”:英国早期维多利亚时代科学与政治经济学的相互缠绕的历史之路——以理查德·琼斯和惠威尔为例
Upal Chakrabarti
Upal Chakrabarti
This essay explores hitherto unnoticed conceptual transactions between reflections on scientific method and a rethinking of political-economic categories in early-nineteenth century Britain through the writings of William Whewell and Richar...
Sieyès's Constitutional Jury, the Pennsylvania Council of Censors, and the Debate on the Conservative Power in the French Revolution [0.03%]
西耶斯的宪法陪审团、宾夕法尼亚州的审查委员会与法国大革命中的保守力量之争
Angus Harwood Brown
Angus Harwood Brown
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès's 1795 proposal for a Constitutional Jury is usually portrayed as the first proposal for an institution to control the constitutionality of laws, and thus the ancestor of the modern constitutional court. Challenging ...
Antiquarianism, Local Traditions, and Urban Identity in the Early Modern Netherlands: The Controversy about the City of the Nervii [0.03%]
古代主义、地方传统与早期现代荷兰的城市认同:关于内尔维人的城市之争
Olivier Latteur
Olivier Latteur
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the study of Roman remains led to the questioning of many local traditions, including those that associated the episcopal see of Tournai with the valiant Nervii. The rediscovery of ancient Itineraries and the...
Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part One: Rethinking the "Origins" of US Intellectual History [0.03%]
二十世纪智识史上的女性(上):反思美国思想史的“起源”问题
Sophie Smith
Sophie Smith
This essay argues that work on the history of women's ideas has been repeatedly written out of the multiple historiographical reviews of twentieth century intellectual history. By recovering that work, and the contexts and sites of its prod...
Nasser Zakariya
Nasser Zakariya
This paper attempts an historical analysis of a dream of the physicist George Gamow recorded shortly before his death in 1968. The dream is contextualized through Gamow's extended scientific work and popular scientific efforts, and in light...
When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment [0.03%]
当木星遇到土星:阿比·瓦尔堡与卡尔·苏德霍夫笔下的占星医学及其去魔化过程
Xinyi Wen
Xinyi Wen
As disenchantment began to be recognized as a recurring, never-ending process in recent scholarship, "When Jupiter Meets Saturn" argues that Aby Warburg and Karl Sudhoff's debate on Reformation astrological medicine provided a new theory of...