Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas

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Open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes studies in the history of interdisciplinary ideas. It appears biannually, around the solstices.

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Lady Welby: Her Support for and Erasure from the Eugenics Movement

At the turn of the twentieth century, gender bias kept women’s role in the advancement of science subservient to male researchers and academics. The study of the involvement of women in various areas of science will cast a richer understanding of the...

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Theorizing American Exceptionalism

‘American exceptionalism’ has become a ubiquitous concept in multiple fields of research. Complicating the picture, it has distinct definitions. To many scholars, ‘exceptionalism’ means that America is comparatively an ‘exception’. This non-normative...

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The Pearly Gates of the Central Sun

The history of the relations that have obtained between science and religion—chiefly Western, Catholic and Protestant, Christianity—has attracted considerable attention. Oftentimes, in various ‘popular’ literatures, conceived as a relationship of int...

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Quel individu et pour quel État?

Sociology and history intersect in the intellectual trajectory and research of Pierre Birnbaum, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has studied power and ideologies in contemporary France and the United States and is...

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Germans, Greeks, and Genealogies

This paper considers the genealogical inheritance of the term ‘security’ within the context of International Relations theory (IR), and uses historical and classical textual analysis to critique the validity of that assumed genealogy. Much existing I...

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Alice’s Jar

Essay-review on a series of books published in recent years, all of which share a clear common core: ruins (Schnapp, Une histoire universelle des ruines. Des origines aux Lumières, 2020; it. transl. Storia universale delle rovine. Dalle origini all'e...