journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35603614/the-politics-of-rationality-in-early-neoliberalism-max-weber-ludwig-von-mises-and-the-socialist-calculation-debate
#21
JOURNAL ARTICLE
William Callison
Initiated by Mises and popularized by Hayek, the socialist calculation debate staked a political position on a methodological axiom: the "irrationality" of state planning. This article argues that Weber's typology of "formal" vs. "substantive" rationality at once drew from Austrian School marginalism and helped frame Mises and Hayek's critiques in the calculation debate. In turn, this debate shaped an anti-socialist front among the early neoliberals before their vaunted gatherings in Paris and Mont Pèlerin...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35603613/locating-ludwig-von-mises-introduction
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Niklas Olsen, Quinn Slobodian
This special issue is a first effort at locating the Austrian economist and political philosopher Ludwig von Mises in his galaxy of influence. This introduction introduces the special issue and summarizes the papers included here. It offers an overview of the placement of Mises in existing scholarship and an outline of the more recent globalization of Mises as the figurehead of an occasionally authoritarian libertarianism through the eponymous Mises institutes that have recently been established worldwide.
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35603612/body-knowledge-part-ii-motion-memory-and-the-mythology-of-modernity
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Isaiah Lorado Wilner
A photograph depicts anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of potlatch encoded in their Hama[inline-graphic 01]sa dance. Seeing Boas as a host body of Indigenous knowledge radically reconfigures our understanding of influence, compelling us to ask who creates modernity...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35603611/the-mystery-of-mount-vesuvius-s-crosses-belief-credulity-and-credibility-in-post-reformation-catholicism
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefania Tutino
In the summer of 1660, Mount Vesuvius began to erupt. After about a month, the volcano quieted down, but a strange and upsetting phenomenon started to manifest: all over the city of Naples and in the neighboring communities, a series of red and black crosses appeared on people's linens, clothes, and bodies. This essay focuses on this mysterious appearance and on the debate it provoked, using it as a case study to investigate the relationship between credulity, credibility, and belief in post-Reformation Catholicism...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35603610/eilhard-lubin-academic-unorthodoxy-and-the-dynamics-of-confessional-intellectual-cultures
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tomás Antonio Valle
The standard narrative of post-Reformation confessionalization suggests that confessional cultures clamped down on intellectual creativity in order to protect orthodox theology. Taking the case of Lutheranism, this article examines Eilhard Lubin's successful defense of his subversive ideas about God, creation, and evil. I put forward the concept of "academic unorthodoxy"-based on the plural, social character of orthodoxy and the potential for disciplinary boundary-work-as a complex but analytically rich approach to the relationship between confessional orthodoxy and intellectual diversity, specifically in early modern Lutheranism but applicable to early modern confessional cultures in general...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35185027/farewell-to-the-german-ideology
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah Johnson
It would be difficult to overstate the significance of the long-awaited MEGA2 I/5, which contains the manuscripts that Marx and Engels wrote for their failed journal project of 1845/46. This essay considers what it will mean to study Marx's ideas and intellectual development in the wake of its publication. The volume offers an uncommon opportunity to develop new ways of reading and teaching these manuscripts, and thus of understanding the corresponding period in Marx's intellectual development, but certain features of the MEGA2 I/5 also risk another outcome: little will change due to deeply ingrained habits...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35185026/body-knowledge-part-i-dance-anthropology-and-the-erasure-of-history
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Isaiah Lorado Wilner
A photograph depicts the anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of "potlatch" encoded in their Hamatsa dance. Seeing Boas as a host body of Indigenous knowledge radically reconfigures our understanding of influence, compelling us to ask who creates modernity...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35185025/global-laozegetics-a-study-in-globalized-philosophy
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Misha Tadd
The Laozi (or Daodejing) is unique within the global transmission of ideas as the most translated philosophical work. This article confirms the proliferation of this classic (1930 translations in 94 languages) and employs the framework of Global Laozegetics to engage the diversity of interpretations included within this material. Its first section covers various early renderings in Asia and Europe, while its second section highlights how translations form interpretive lineages that transmit ideological readings, including fascist, anarchist, Marxist, and self-realizationist ones...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35185024/georg-luk%C3%A3-cs-and-revolutionary-realpolitik-1918-19-an-essay-on-ethical-action-historical-judgment-and-the-history-of-political-thought
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Isaac Nakhimovsky
"Bolshevism as a Moral Problem" and "Tactics and Ethics" were discussions of political ethics closely related to Max Weber's contemporaneous "Politics as a Vocation." They diverged from one another in their historical assessments of possibilities for ethically responsible revolutionary action. They are best understood as developments of an approach to political judgment originally forged by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, whose concerns were associated by Weber with Realpolitik and which continue to animate discussions of "political realism...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35185023/protestant-intellectual-culture-and-political-ideas-in-the-scottish-universities-ca-1600-50
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Karie Schultz
This article examines the teaching of political ideas at the Scottish universities between 1600 and 1650. It demonstrates that regents did not direct their students toward one consistent Reformed view of political participation as a divinely mandated duty to control sin and advance the true religion, a position frequently advanced in contemporary printed works. Instead, university education provided students with a cross-confessional intellectual framework that emphasized both Augustinian and Aristotelian elements of early modern political thought...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35185022/a-revolution-in-political-thought-translations-of-polybius-book-6-and-the-conceptual-history-of-revolution
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dan Edelstein
How did "revolution" obtain its particular meanings in political thought? This article examines the role played by translations of Polybius's Histories (Book 6), where "revolution" was the near-unanimous choice for rendering "anacyclosis." It further claims "revolution" displaced the earlier Aristotelian vocabulary of political change (in translations, "mutation" and "sedition"). Finally, it argues that recognizing the Polybian source of much "revolutionary" language in the early modern period fills in an important chapter in the conceptual history of revolution...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35185021/a-beginner-s-success-the-impact-of-plotinus-s-first-treatise-among-christians
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniele Iozzia
The first treatise written by Plotinus, On Beauty (Enn. 1.6), was admired among those Christian authors who were open to the influence of Platonic philosophy, in particular the Cappadocian Fathers. This could be due to a possible publication of the treatise before Porphyry's editorial work for the Enneads. The presence of concepts of the treatise in their works is a sign of their interest in its rhetorical qualities and, at a deeper level, in the theoretical support that Plotinus's thought could give to theological reflection...
2022: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840197/contents-of-volume-82
#33
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2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840194/the-immeasurability-of-the-monastic-mind-writing-about-peter-abelard-1079-1142
#34
REVIEW
Babette Hellemans
The work of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) leaves no one indifferent. Why should the writings stir up such emotions long after he became a point of reference in the history of ideas? Perhaps the most important reason is that Abelard has always been more than the author of his books. For the historians of ideas he served as an example of what it is to lead an intellectually independent life, against the standards set by society and church. It is to the credit of scholars discussed in this review essay that this historical question arising from "doing philosophy" is addressed...
2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840193/planning-the-american-future-daniel-bell-future-research-and-the-commission-on-the-year-2000
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jenny Andersson
This article examines the sociologist Daniel Bell's interest in future research. Future research, to Bell, had as its particular purpose to ensure forms of coordination and steering acceptable to a liberal society. By examining Bell's interest in future research and the activities of the Commission on the Year 2000, the essay proposes that future research played a role in Cold War intellectual history as a particular form of planning for the liberal polity. This idea of planning a liberal society changed decisively, however, between 1965 and 1975...
2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840192/the-capital-of-race-capitals-toward-a-connective-cartography-of-black-internationalisms
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah C Dunstan
A great deal of ink has been spilled reflecting upon the historically contingent nature of race as a category, and as a lived experience. Bringing together the case studies of the interwar sites of Harlem, Paris, and London and, in the post-World War Two period of decolonization, the cities of Algiers and Dakar, this article is a contribution to ongoing conversations about how we might develop a critical conceptual apparatus for understanding the relationship between historical examples of black internationalism and the racial assumptions that underpin it by linking it to notions of place...
2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840191/epistemological-battles-on-the-home-front-early-neoliberals-at-war-against-the-social-relations-of-science-movement
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Martin Beddeleem
During the Second World War, fighting the growing influence of left-leaning British scientists became the focal point of the publications of Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, and Michael Polanyi. Doing so, they elaborated key epistemological principles of neoliberalism: the indeterminate nature of knowledge, the shortcomings of holistic and determinist theories of society, and the spontaneous aspects of human organizations. Although at odds on the ideological spectrum, they shared with their adversaries the idea that the production of knowledge depended on economic and social conditions...
2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840190/the-logician-in-the-archive-john-venn-s-diagrams-and-victorian-historical-thinking
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David E Dunning
Like the overlapping circles of his famous diagrams, English probability theorist, logician, and historian John Venn (1834-1923) operated at a site of productive intersection. Across a career comprising seemingly disparate pursuits, Venn exhibited an epistemic apparatus shaped by a mathematical probability, formal logic, and British historicism. Scholarly interest in Venn has tended to isolate these elements; I argue that a deep continuity joined his projects. The unappreciated coherence of his work reveals larger convergent currents in Victorian historical thinking, a kind of statistical attitude according to which large series of elite individuals constituted the most illuminating historical subject...
2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840189/the-urbild-of-einbildung-the-archetype-in-the-imagination-in-eighteenth-century-german-aesthetics
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julian Johannes Koch
This article outlines what is arguably the uniquely German trajectory of the imagination, focusing on the relation between the imagination and "Urbild" in eighteenth-century German aesthetics, particularly in Kant and Schelling. I contend that shared German roots of the "Einbildung" (imagination) and "Urbild" (archetype) in "Bild" led German aesthetic thinkers to conceive of the imagination much more in (Neo-)Platonic terms. This article therefore argues that there is a perceptible rift in how the imagination is conceived in eighteenth-century discourse which follows a linguistic fault line between the Latin-origin "imagination" and the German "Einbildung...
2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34840188/anselm-s-predicament-the-proslogion-and-anti-intellectual-rhetoric-in-the-aftermath-of-the-berengarian-controversy
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Samu Niskanen
The contention informing this essay is that the side-effects of the so-called Berengarian controversy about the Eucharist jeopardized the first steps Anselm of Bec, later of Canterbury († 1109), was taking as a learned author in the late 1070s. Anselm wrote his first treatises, Monologion and Proslogion, in an atmosphere heated by the exploitation of anti-intellectual rhetoric and the public condemnation of Berengar's teaching by his enemies. This identification of Anselm's predicament prompts a re-evaluation of the subject matter and literary aspect of Proslogion, the work that delivers his famous ontological argument for the existence of God...
2021: Journal of the History of Ideas
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