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Modern Intellectual History publishes scholarship in intellectual and cultural history from 1650 onwards. MIH concerns itself primarily with apprehending the contextual origins and receptions of texts in order to recover their historical meanings. But we understand ‘texts’ in the broadest sense, so as to encompass multiple forms of intellectual and cultural expression. These include, but are not limited to, political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, both the social sciences and the natural sciences, music, architecture, and the visual arts.
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“I think my enemy”: Carl Schmitt, sick of reading Arendt
- 21 July 2022,
- Carl Schmitt, “the famous professor of constitutional and international law who later became a Nazi” (as Hannah Arendt once put it), continues to shock and...

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Mr Hobbes goes to Paris
- 15 April 2022,
- My aim in this piece, however, is to suggest that there is much to be gained from turning to Hobbes’s immediate Parisian surroundings—for, France had its own...
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
- 17 March 2023,
- Post Excerpt The Elements series on the histories of emotions and senses owes everything to the vision and dedication of Jan Plamper, who established the series....

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The Indian Civil Service, Classical Studies and an Education in Empire
- 28 February 2023,
- The years around 1900, when the British Empire was at its height, witnessed a flurry of publications comparing the British Empire to ancient Rome.

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Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
- 01 February 2023,
- In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)...
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