Monthly Archives: June 2015

Book Announcement: From Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 24, 2015

From Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy: the stamp of inutility Marco Solinas (Florence University) Announcing a new book by Marco Solinas that will be of interest to many ISIH members: From Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy: the stamp of inutility (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Starting with Aristotle and moving on to Darwin, Marco Solinas outlines the basic […]

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CFP: Enacting the People: Political Representation and Democratic Legitimacy

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 24, 2015

CFP: Enacting the People: Political Representation and Democratic Legitimacy 29 September 2015, University of York The conference aims to explore the genealogy of the concept of representation as well as cutting-edge work of conceptual clarification and conceptual innovation confronting the question of what political representation is and/or what it can do, and how. Given the prominence […]

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Dictionnaire des philosophes français du 17e siècle: acteurs et réseaux du savoir

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 24, 2015

Dictionnaire des philosophes français du 17e siècle: acteurs et réseaux du savoir Major Research Resources The Dictionnaire des philosophes français du 17e siècle presents, in alphabetical order, the work of 690 authors of philosophical texts between 1601 and 1700. Understanding the seventeenth-century use of the term ‘philosophy’ in its broadest sense, this dictionary is an […]

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Preternature: New Titles for Review

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 24, 2015

Preternature: New Titles for Review Preternature provides an interdisciplinary, inclusive forum for the study of topics that stand in the liminal space between the known world and the inexplicable. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural that encompasses the weird and uncanny—magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, esotericism, demonology, monstrophy, and more, recognizing that […]

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Book Announcement: From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 11, 2015

From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth By Alex Gourevitch From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth by Alex Gourevitch (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University) reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These ‘labor republicans’ derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating […]

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The Art of Experimental Natural History: Francis Bacon in Context

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 5, 2015

Book Announcement: The Art of Experimental Natural History: Francis Bacon in Context Dana Jalobeanu Francis Bacon introduced his contemporaries to a new way of investigating nature. He called it  “natural and experimental history.” Despite its rather traditional name, Bacon’s natural and experimental history was a new discipline: it comprised new ideas, new practices and new models […]

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CFP: Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 4, 2015

CFP: Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order 25 September 2015, Edge Hill University The global order of State and inter-State surveillance has become an integral feature of contemporary human life. For a typical individual inhabiting State-controlled spaces, the apparatus of monitoring is inescapable— embedded in technologies and legal frameworks of movement, communication, and […]

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CFP: Creation of Reality: The Crag International Confluence 2015

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 4, 2015

CFP: Creation of Reality: The Crag International Confluence 2015 3-5 December 2015, University of Edinburgh Since the second half of the 20th century, ‘creation of reality’ is a compound that has gained exponential momentum in books and other publications (fiction and non-fiction). The general increase in the human belief that reality is, or can be to differing […]

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The Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 4, 2015

The Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress Research Resources Announcing the Radio Preservation Task Force, a new Library of Congress project. The RPTF is organized to encourage the preservation, research, and pedagogical application of the intellectual and aesthetic history of technology. For further information, please see the project website.  

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Book Announcement: The Testosterone Hypothesis

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 4, 2015

The Testosterone Hypothesis: How Hormones Regulate the Life Cycles of Civilization Roy Barzilai THE TESTOSTERONE HYPOTHESIS: How Hormones Regulate the Life Cycles of Civilization is Roy Barzilai’s next provocative book, following last year’s release of THE OBJECTIVE BIBLE: Western Civilization’s Struggle for Philosophic Liberation from a Herd-Mentality and Pagan Mysticism. Tel Aviv, May 1, 2015. Dibrah […]

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