{"title":"Pan-Celticism and Racial Thought at the Fin de Siècle.","authors":"Ian Stewart","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a989314","DOIUrl":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a989314","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Celtic movement. Showing first how Pan-Celticism emerged within the same context as the better known Pan-German and Pan-Slavic movements, the essay then examines the way that the idea of \"race\" formed a binding agent for the different Celtic nations, who were divided linguistically, geographically, and politically. It uncovers their assumptions and goals, and what prominent contemporaries made of them. Finally, the essay considers similarities and differences with the contemporary Pan-Africanist movement, and the light these can shed on the uses of racial ideas at the time.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"87 2","pages":"369-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Juliet Mitchell, French Structuralism, and the Subject of Feminism in 1970s Britain.","authors":"Roslyn Dubler","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a997084","DOIUrl":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a997084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the feminist search for a comprehensive theory of women's oppression in the 1970s, told through the work of British feminist Juliet Mitchell. It reconstructs the development of Mitchell's thought from her work on New Left Review in the late 1960s to her landmark Psychoanalysis and Feminism in 1974. In doing so, it offers a new interpretation of the \"turn\" from \"women\" to \"gender,\" with consequences for the history of Marxism and feminism, feminism and race, and the subject in French post-structural theory in Britain and the US.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"87 3","pages":"587-619"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148702355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"German Sonderwege in Postwar Brain Research: Institutional Strategies for Reinventing Behavioral Research After Nazism.","authors":"Cornelius Borck","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a1003015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2026.a1003015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores how scientists positioned brain research in postwar Germany. Detlev Ploog imported technology-brain stimulation with implanted electrodes-to help reclaim the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry's international stature, providing a neurophysiological basis for biological psychiatry and making biological research foundational for philosophical anthropology. Bernhard Hassenstein and Werner Reichardt, by contrast, kept such philosophical prospects at bay. They did not engage the rhetoric of information typical for the propagation of cybernetics as universal science. Instead, they focused on mathematical strategies in the analysis of complex behavior patterns, preparing the ground for the emergence of computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"87 4","pages":"873-901"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149168251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Brain Sciences and Intellectual History, 1945-75: An Introduction.","authors":"Danielle Carr, Andreas Killen","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a1003010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2026.a1003010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Introduction to a cluster of articles, \"The Brain Sciences and Intellectual History.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"87 4","pages":"749-767"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149169653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ethiopian Lucretius? Giusto da Urbino and the Origins of the <i>Ḥatäta Zär'a Ya'ɘqob</i> Controversy.","authors":"Lea Cantor, Jonathan Egid","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a989311","DOIUrl":"10.1353/jhi.2026.a989311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article uses new archival evidence to reframe the controversy over the authorship of the Ḥatäta Zär'a Ya'ǝqob (also known as the Wärqe), a philosophical autobiography set in seventeenth-century Ethiopia. We demonstrate that, already in the context of the Catholic mission to evangelize the Oromo people of southern Ethiopia, accusations were made against a Capuchin missionary, Fr. Giusto da Urbino (1814-56), to the effect that he had endorsed, edited, or even forged this work. Catholic authorities promptly attempted to suppress the Ḥatäta Zär'a Ya'ǝqob, identified in an 1857 report as a \"true Lucretius of Ethiopian literature.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"87 2","pages":"291-341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters.","authors":"Diego Pirillo","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a949928","DOIUrl":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a949928","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the Republic of Letters has become today a main area of interdisciplinary research, early North America has remained largely impermeable to this new body of scholarship. In this article I use the category of the Republic of Letters to overcome some of the limitations of the \"Atlantic world\" paradigm and to shed new light on the intellectual history of eighteenth-century America. Along with studying the means through which American savants gathered information about scholarly trends and recent publications, I also bring to light the strategies they used to actively contribute to the production and organization of knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 1","pages":"75-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applied Aesthetics and the Musical Public on the Threshold of Romanticism.","authors":"Rolf Strøm-Olsen","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a966905","DOIUrl":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a966905","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rise of a musical public in the early nineteenth century has been recognized as an important example of what Habermas identified as the emerging bourgeois public sphere. This article explores how patterns of musical consumption were shaped by the authority of music-critical journalism, especially given contemporary critiques about the aesthetic worth of instrumental music. To assert music's aesthetic legitimacy, the leading music journal of the period developed a critical discourse, characterized by the use of an \"applied aesthetics,\" to guide public preferences governing music consumption and to explicate these choices within larger philosophical debates about music's aesthetic value.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 3","pages":"537-568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schmitt's Reinterpretation of Hegel During His Nazi Period.","authors":"Wojciech Engelking","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a970051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a970051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 4","pages":"759-789"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laurette Séjourné and Leonora Carrington, Ethnography and Surrealism in Mexico.","authors":"Ian Merkel","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a970052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a970052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 4","pages":"791-818"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Should We Call a Bad Democracy?","authors":"Daniel Sutton","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a970047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a970047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 4","pages":"631-663"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}