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3 giorni fa · Tracing how knowledge develops and ideas spread requires a close analysis of exchange of ideas across regions — sometimes across large distances. In this essay, Ian Merkel relates how historians research intellectual exchange, what kinds of sources they use, and how this exciting area of scholarship can help us better understand ...
2 giorni fa · Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology.
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3 giorni fa · Intellectual history interprets the political and social world by examining how thinkers and ideas emerge from and transform that world; to do this it must bracket normative questions about ideas as ideas.
1 giorno fa · Montaigne's Essays, a timeless collection of introspective musings, offer a panoramic view of human nature, wisdom, and skepticism. These profound reflections unravel the intricacies of existence, providing a roadmap to navigate life's complexities.
17 ore fa · A Realist Ethos and Rights to Resist in Global Politics. Notions of legitimate resistance and rights to resist have a long historical entanglement. As Micah Alpaugh writes, “Developed notions of legitimized resistance against unjust rulers date back at least to antiquity” ( Alpaugh 2016, 570).
5 giorni fa · Moreover, prominent recent anthropological theorizing around imperialism (e.g., Stoler 2016; McGranahan and Collins 2018), has concerned itself with current disciplinary interests—with performativity, governmentality, and affect, for example—while shying away from the imperialist political economy that vexed an earlier generation of “Third World” revolutionaries.
1 giorno fa · —Max Weber in Sociological Writings, 1904. The principle of methodological individualism, which holds that social scientists should seek to understand collectivities solely as the result of the actions of individual persons, can be traced to Weber. In the first chapter of Economy and Society, he argued that only individuals "can be treated as agents in a course of subjectively understandable ...
