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Cartesian Frames of Mind and the New Regulae Manuscript
Published on 26 May 2026
by Abram Kaplan St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD/Villa I Tatti, Florence
The people’s two powers: public opinion and popular sovereignty from Rousseau to liberal democracy
Published on 26 May 2026
by James A. Harris University of St. Andrews
A modern painter “obliged to wash the dishes”: Hannah Höch’s unknown contribution to the Kunstlump controversy
Published on 19 May 2026
by Andrea Pérez-Fernández Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), SpainAndrea Pérez-Fernández is a lecturer in Humanities at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the relationship between art and politics in Germany between the 1880s and the 1930s.
Leibniz’s cooperation with Johann Christian von Boineburg: the case of Spinoza
Published on 19 May 2026
by Gábor Gángó a Institute of Philosophy, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities Budapest, Hungaryb Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt Erfurt, GermanyGábor Gángó is Scientific Advisor at the Institute of Philosophy of the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary, and Associated Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His research focuses on early modern natural law, especially on Johann Christian von Boineburg and Leibniz. His last book is Gábor Gángó (ed.), Early modern natural law in East-Central Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2023).
Giambattista Vico and the history of historical empathy
Published on 22 Apr 2026
by Adam Sutcliffe Department of History, King’s College London, London, UKAdam Sutcliffe is Professor of European History at King's College London. He has published widely on European intellectual history and Jewish history since 1700 and on the politics of historical memory. He is the author, most recently, of What Are Jews For?: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose (Princeton University Press, 2020).
The future that was: a history of Third World feminism against authoritarianism
Published on 20 Apr 2026
by Sergio Infante Yale University
Walter Lippmann: an intellectual biography
Published on 15 Apr 2026
by Alexander Jacobs Vanderbilt University
Completely free: the moral and political vision of John Stuart Mill
Published on 14 Apr 2026
by Chris Barker The American University in Cairo
The return of the common good: the postliberal project left and right
Published on 10 Apr 2026
by Enrico Beltramini Notre Dame de Namur University, CA, USA
The theologian and the empire: A biography of José de Acosta (1540–1600)
Published on 19 Mar 2026
by Richard J. Oosterhoff School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Towards a Reformed Enlightenment: Salomon Van Til (1643–1713) and the Cartesio-Cocceian debates in the early modern Dutch Republic
Published on 5 Mar 2026
by Matthew C. Baines Sydney Missionary & Bible College
Early modern Mosaic physics and its pre-Comenian representatives (1559–1613)
Published on 2 Mar 2026
by Jan Čížek Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, CzechiaJan Čížek (Ph.D. 2014) is an intellectual historian focusing on the work of J. A. Comenius and the philosophy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He has published three monographs and over twenty academic studies and regularly participates in international conferences such as Scientiae, R.S.A. meeting, and H.O.P.O.S. congress.
“Experimental” versus “speculative” philosophy: Stephen Gaukroger’s uncharacteristic misstep in scientific revolution historiography and how to fix it
Published on 26 Feb 2026
by John A. Schuster Campion College, Sydney, AustraliaJohn A. Schuster is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published on the historiography of the Scientific Revolution; the nature and dynamics of the field of early modern natural philosophy; Descartes’s natural philosophical and mathematical career; and the political and rhetorical roles of scientific method. He taught at Princeton, Leeds, Cambridge, and the University of New South Wales, before retiring to full-time research in 2011 in affiliation with the School of History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney (until 2023), and as Honorary Research Fellow at Campion College (continuing), Sydney, the first private liberal arts college in Australia. He was President of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science on seven occasions and was a member of the National Committee on History & Philosophy of Science of the Australian Academy of Science for six years.
The long view of civil religion in history
Published on 24 Feb 2026
by Delphine Doucet Katherine A. East a Library Services, University of Sunderland, UKb School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, UKDelphine Doucet is currently Research and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Sunderland. She first joined the University of Sunderland in 2010 as a history lecturer teaching early modern history, having previously taught in a number of colleges in the University of London (Goldsmiths, Birkbeck, Royal Holloway).Katherine A. East is Senior Lecturer in History with the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Newcastle University, where she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2015–2018, and a Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History 2018–2019. She completed her Ph.D. at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2013, during which time she was supervised by Justin Champion and Jonathan Powell.
Species of spaces
Published on 24 Feb 2026
by Alberto Fabris Maria Vittoria Comacchi a Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italyb Department of Italian Studies at New York University (NYU), New York, USAc Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USAAlberto Fabris is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a Ph.D. from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and has conducted research and taught at institutions such as the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on early modern philosophy, political thought, and psychoanalysis, with particular attention to figures like Machiavelli and Giordano Bruno. He has published extensively on the intersections of desire, power, and political institutions in Renaissance thought.Maria Vittoria Comacchi (Ph.D., 2019) is an intellectual historian specializing in transcultural and cross-linguistic exchanges across the early modern Mediterranean. Her research explores Jewish and Christian intellectual exchanges and Europe’s relationship with the Arabic and Ottoman worlds. Her main areas of interest include antiquarianism, cosmography, cartography, the history of religious-political ideas across imperial and religious boundaries, book history, and the circulation of Arabic manuscripts in Europe. She has been a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow working at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Indiana University Bloomington, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2022–2025), a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2020–2021), and a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the Universität Hamburg (2019–2020). She is currently working at the Università di Perugia on the cataloging project for the manuscript collection of the Library of the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis in Assisi.
Stasys Šalkauskis and the politics of Lithuanian national identity during the post-imperial transition, 1916–1919
Published on 24 Feb 2026
by Vilius Kubekas a Department of Twentieth-Century History, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, Lithuaniab Historisches Institut, University of Hagen, Hagen, GermanyVilius Kubekas is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, Lithuania. He holds a Doctoral degree in Comparative History (2023) from Central European University, Vienna, Austria. His research interests include the intellectual history of east-central Europe, the intersection of politics and religion, history of Lithuania, and modern European political history.
Carl Schmitt’s study notes on the French Revolution (1789–1791): monarchy, constituent power, and the origins of representation
Published on 19 Feb 2026
by Carlos Pérez Crespo Institute of Political Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, ChileCarlos Pérez Crespo is an Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was previously an adjunct lecturer of political theory at the University of Hamburg and a visiting doctoral student at the University of Cambridge. He won the 2023 Charles Schmitt Prize of the International Association for Intellectual History. His work examines the political and constitutional theories of France and Germany and their reception in Spain and Latin America. He is currently researching the international reception of political theorists and ideologues of autocracies, in particular the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt.
Representation of space(s): cosmography and world history in Guillaume Postel’s De universitate liber (1552)
Published on 18 Feb 2026
by Maria Vittoria Comacchi a Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italyb Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USAMaria Vittoria Comacchi (Ph.D., 2019) is an intellectual historian specializing in transcultural and cross-linguistic exchanges across the early modern Mediterranean. Her research explores Jewish and Christian intellectual exchanges and Europe’s relationship with the Arabic and Ottoman worlds. Her main areas of interest include antiquarianism, cosmography, cartography, the history of religious-political ideas across imperial and religious boundaries, book history, and the circulation of Arabic manuscripts in Europe. She has been a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow working at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Indiana University Bloomington, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2022–2025), a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2020–2021), and a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the Universität Hamburg (2019–2020). She is currently working at the Università di Perugia on the cataloging project for the manuscript collection of the Library of the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis in Assisi.
The crisis of the English mind 1650–1750: European intellectual exchange, religion and secularisation
Published on 17 Feb 2026
by Diego Lucci Department of Philosophy and Psychology, American University in Bulgaria
“Worldwide vigilance and pastoral care”: a genealogy of the concept of “propaganda”
Published on 12 Feb 2026
by Alberto Fabris Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Universita Ca’ Foscari, Venice, ItalyAlberto Fabris is an Adjunct Professor at the Universita Ca’ Foscari, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali.
The invention of civil religion in Cicero's speech “On his house” and Georg Wissowa's re-interpretation as sacral law
Published on 12 Feb 2026
by Jörg Rüpke Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, GermanyJörg Rüpke is Fellow in Religious Studies and Co-director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of Erfurt University, Germany. His research focus on the ancient Mediterranean and appropriate conceptual tools has widened to questions of religious change in urban environments and economy of religion.
When sinologists were geologists: Chinese chronology in early modern England and the heterodox Chinese studies of Robert Hooke and John Beaumont
Published on 10 Feb 2026
by Ross Moncrieff All Souls College, Oxford, UKRoss Moncrieff is an Examination Fellow and DPhil student in history at All Souls College, Oxford. He is an intellectual historian researching British understandings of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Priest or philosopher? The Ciceronian example of priesthood in the English Enlightenment debate on civil religion
Published on 10 Feb 2026
by Katherine A. East School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKKatherine A. East is Senior Lecturer in History with the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Newcastle University, where she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 2015–2018, and a Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History, 2018–2019. She completed her Ph.D. at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2013, during which time she was supervised by Justin Champion and Jonathan Powell.
In the service of the Demos: civic religion and politics in early Hellenistic Athens
Published on 5 Feb 2026
by Manolis E. Pagkalos Jiyang College, Zhejiang A&F University, PRCDr Manolis Pagkalos is Associate Professor in the Humanities at Zhejiang A&F University, P.R.C. Previously, he has been Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Greece, and he has taught at the University of Groningen (2020–2022) and the University of Leicester (2014–2020). Moreover, he has been invited as a Visiting Lecturer in Brno, Czechia (Masaryk University, 2021), Sao Paolo, Brazil (USP, 2022–2023), Changchun, China (IHAC-NENU, 2023), and Mexico City, Mexico (UNAM, 2023). He holds a bachelor’s degree (B.A. Hons. 2010, Athens) in History and Archaeology and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Ancient History (M.A. 2014; Ph.D. 2018, Leicester). His research deals with memory and the reception of the past in ancient and modern communities and its use in socio-politics. Other research interests include ancient numismatics (iconography, ideology, circulation, economy), epigraphy, and digital humanities.
“Romulus was not less prince than Trajan”: Paolo Sarpi, reader of Jean Bodin and theorist of sovereignty (The early consulti, 1606)
Published on 2 Feb 2026
by Gregorio Baldin Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Vercelli, ItalyGregorio Baldin (1986) is an Associate Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Vercelli) and an Associate Researcher at I.H.R.I.M. (Institut d’Histoire des Idées et des Représentations dans les Modernités), École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He was a Senior Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (2023–2024). His research focuses on the intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with particular emphasis on Thomas Hobbes and Paolo Sarpi. He is the author of Thomas Hobbes. Filosofia e politica nell’Europa del Seicento (Rome: Carocci, 2025), Hobbes and Galileo. Method, Matter and the Science of Motion (Cham: Springer, 2020; original edition Florence: Olschki, 2017), and La croisée des savoirs: Hobbes, Mersenne, Descartes (Milan: Éditions Mimésis, 2020).
Luctor et Emergo: territorial sovereignty as contested paradigm in the United Provinces
Published on 29 Jan 2026
by Luigi Emilio Pischedda Dipartimento di Filosofia, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Bologna, ItalyLuigi Emilio Pischedda (Ph.D., 2022) is Research Fellow in Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna. His research interests lie mainly between philosophy of law and modern political philosophy, with a focus on the methodological aspects of conceptual history and political metaphorics. His main areas of interest include Spinoza’s political works, seventeenth-century Dutch political thought (Grotius, Cunaeus) and Jewish political thought. He has collaborated with the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Thought (Ca’ Foscari University) and with the Centre d’histoire des philosophies modernes de la Sorbonne (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). He has been a member of the Societas Spinozana since 2017 and a member of its scientific committee since 2020.
Ancient religion, fears of division and rules of civil unity in anti-Machiavellian literature
Published on 27 Jan 2026
by Julien Le Mauff Ceraps, University of Lille, Lille, FranceJulien Le Mauff is a historian of political ideas, Ph.D. in medieval studies, former teaching and research assistant at Université Paris-Cité and University of Lille. He is a research associate at the LEM (U.M.R. 8584) and Ceraps (U.M.R. 8026). He focuses on the history of political systems of thought and the formation of theories of sovereignty from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. He has published Généalogie de la raison d'État (Classiques Garnier, 2021), L'Empire de l'urgence (Puf, 2024) and Machiavel (Puf, 2025).
In the room of the circles: the inquisition and books of magic in early modern Venice
Published on 26 Jan 2026
by Neil Tarrant University of York
The world at first light: a new history of the Renaissance
Published on 22 Jan 2026
by Stephen Bowd University of Edinburgh