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New Books in Intellectual History

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In 1651, the English Civil Wars were ending, and Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan. He used the book

John Behr's book John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology (Oxford UP, 2021

Nissim Mannathukkaren's book Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South

rom the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar

You may know the term “Machiavellian,” but where does the word really come from? Niccolò Machiavelli

A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why

Given that we live in an era roiled by concerns about how democratic supposedly democratic countries

In 1951, following the Holocaust and Second World War, Hannah Arendt wrote The Origins of Totalitari

Though relatively short, the 2022 book The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Lega