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Modern Intellectual History

📣 Announcing The 2026 Modern Intellectual History Lecture! We're thrilled to welcome Prof. Marlene L. Daut (Yale) for her talk: “The King of Haiti and Black Statecraft in the Nineteenth Century.” 📅 March 19, 2026 ⏰ 2:15–3:45 PM CST 📍 Black Cultural Center Auditorium, Vanderbilt University

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Now on FirstView: Camilla Boisen reflects on the stories we tell ourselves about peace and genocide in her review essay of A. Dirk Moses' @dirkmoses.bsky.social The Problems of Genocide and Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

Now on FirstView: “Officers without Soldiers”?: Théophile Deslauriers analyzes Henry Sidgwick’s theory of representative government in the shadow of Liberal Unionism in Britain

Now on FirstView: The course that Vico ran? John Robertson analyzes the significance of the completed critical edition of Vico’s Scienza Nuova

Now on FirstView: Abolition on the eve of revolution? Jennifer Pitts and Michael F. Suarez, S.J., examine Condorcet’s French translation of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s influential antislavery treatise and analyze its reception in France

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Modern Intellectual History

Now on FirstView: Against the Caesarist crowd? Peter Giraudo analyzes Georges Sorel's early democratic socialism during the Dreyfus affair and his ideas on workers' dissociation from Parisian crowds as a necessary condition for socialist progress

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The Course That Vico Ran: The Significance of the Completed Critical Edition of the Scienza Nuova

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The Course That Vico Ran: The Significance of the Completed Critical Edition of the Scienza Nuova

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The Course That Vico Ran: The Significance of the Completed Critical Edition of the Scienza Nuova | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Modern Intellectual History

Pleased to see my article "Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments" published in @mihjournal.bsky.social. In short, it explores the relationship between financial law, Chicago school theory, and continued fossil-fuel investments. 1/

Modern Intellectual History

The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Peace and Genocide

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Peace and Genocide | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

“Officers without Soldiers”: Henry Sidgwick on Representative Government in the Shadow of Liberal Unionism

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“Officers without Soldiers”: Henry Sidgwick on Representative Government in the Shadow of Liberal Unionism | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

“Officers without Soldiers”: Henry Sidgwick on Representative Government in the Shadow of Liberal Unionism

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Cugoano, Condorcet, and Abolition on the Eve of Revolution

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Cugoano, Condorcet, and Abolition on the Eve of Revolution | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments

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Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Against the Caesarist Crowd: Georges Sorel's Early Democratic Socialism during the Dreyfus Affair

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Against the Caesarist Crowd: Georges Sorel's Early Democratic Socialism during the Dreyfus Affair | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

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