Recently added articles from Journal of the History of Ideas:
On the ancient uses of political fear and its modern implications (1).(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Kapust, Daniel ... I. POLITICAL FEAR AND POLITICAL THOUGHT Political fear has attracted much attention from political theorists, philosophers, and scientists in recent years. (2) Anne Norton, for instance, notes that "Soccer moms on the radio, policy makers on television tell us that nothing is ...
"Following the way which is called heresy": Milton and the Heretical Imperative.(John Milton)(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Myers, Benjamin ... John Milton is widely regarded as a forerunner of Lockean liberalism, and so of the political thought of the English Enlightenment. (1) Indeed, already in 1698, Milton's biographer John Toland had constructed a unified tradition of English liberalism running from Milton through Locke, and ...
A virtuoso's history: antiquarianism and the transmission of knowledge in the alchemical studies of Elias Ashmole.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Janacek, Bruce ... On August 20, 1672, the antiquary and occult enthusiast, Elias Ashmole (1617-92) carefully recorded that he had acquired "Dr. Dees Manuscripts, all written with his owne hand" of "his Conferences with Angells." (1) His precious acquisition was a manuscript by John Dee (1527-1609) that ...
Stoic constructions of virtue in the vicar of Wakefield.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Anderson, Margaret ... In R. S. Crane's seminal essay "Suggestions toward a Genealogy of the 'Man of Feeling'," he locates the origins of eighteenth-century sentimentalism in the seventeenth-century rejection of Stoic indifference. Crane quotes an anonymous writer from 1755 who questions "whether those are ...
Mandeville's ship: theistic design and philosophical history in Charles Darwin's vision of natural selection.(Bernard Mandeville)(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Alter, Stephen G. ... I. INTRODUCTION: THE VIEW FROM THE SHORELINE In the diary he kept during his five-year voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, Charles Darwin described an episode that would later be made famous by his published Journal of Researches (1839). The diary's version, however, included more detail ....
The pointsman: Maxwell's demon, Victorian free will, and the boundaries of science.(James Clerk Maxwell)(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Stanley, Matthew ... The railway pointsman was the vigilant employee shifting tracks and posting signals to route hurtling trains safely on their way. In a twelve-hour shift in 1880, a pointsman might pull two thousand levers. (1) Their daily life was governed by "reliability, service, and coolness." (2) The ...
A conversation about morals and history.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Cotkin, George ... In Moliere's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), Monsieur Jourdain is stunned to learn that "For more than forty years," he has "been talking prose without any idea of it." (1) Perhaps, as some of the commentators suggest, historians have been speaking morals for a lot longer than I had ...
Joseph M. Levine: 1933-2008.(Obituary)
Jul 01, 2008; Kelley, Donald R. ... Joseph M. Levine, Distinguished Professor of History at Syracuse University, died after several months of ill health, working on his most recent project. Educated at Cornell, Joe received his M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He taught at Queens College of the City University of New ...
Books received.
Jul 01, 2008 ... Adamson, Peter, ed. Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception. London: Warburg Institute and Savigliano: N. Aragno, 2007. ix, 212p., index, 36 [pounds sterling]. Eleven essays on God, self, and ontology in Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan traditions, ninth to twelfth ...
Morris D. Forkosch Prize.(NOTICES)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Journal of the History of Ideas will award the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2000) for the best book in intellectual history published in 2007. The awards committee favors books which are published in English and which display some interdisciplinary range, demonstrate sound ...
Institute for Advanced Study: Princeton, New Jersey: opportunities for scholars for the academic year 2009-2010.(NOTICES)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Institute For Advanced Study is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Each year scholars from around the world apply to come to the Institute to pursue ...