Bọlanle Awẹ: The Matriarch of Feminist History by Toyin Falola

“…For both Professor Awẹ and even Nigeria’s premier university, this great honor is a fitting tribute to mark the anniversary of the institution of learning that has been central to the intellectual history of Nigeria. The University of Ibadan has done well to select Professor Awẹ for this honor. …”
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Une relecture de l’événement : La chute du Royaume arabe de Damas en 1920 by Jean-David Mizrahi

“…Therefore, we have, first and foremost, sought to understand the transformations of the Syrian political arena in those days in the light of economic and social changes that affected the Bilâd al-Shâm during a long Ottoman 19th century, before exploring the intellectual history and that of representations, and being aware that the civilizing example of the Arabian kingdom, inherited from the Europe of the Enlightenment, was eventually bound to come up against a radical and populist trend in the Arab nationalism.…”
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El semanario Vida Socialista. ¿Una empresa generacional? by Alberto Núñez Rodríguez

“…The cultural magazines edited by the socialists of Madrid from the 1890s onwards lend themselves to a revealing reinterpretation from the perspective of intellectual history. Therefore, the objective of this article is to interpret the publication of the weekly Vida Socialista (1910-1914) as an unknown enterprise of the Generation of 1914. …”
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The Shipwreck and the Wreath. Dissolution of Identities in Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea by Ewa Lukaszyk

“… The article presents a reading of Ruta Sepetys’ novel Salt to the Sea in the context of the philosophical proposal of Hans Blumenberg, who tried to capture the dynamics of European cultural and intellectual history through the metaphor of shipwreck. This pessimistic theory of modernity as a cycle of catastrophes is counterbalanced by the new vision of transcultural becoming and the theory of dissolution of cultures proposed by Wolfgang Welsch. …”
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Désobéissance radicale, désobéissance politique : la remise en cause du consensus rawlsien dans le champ philosophique étatsunien contemporain by Charlotte Thomas-Hébert

“…The present article outlines a brief intellectual history of the concept of civil disobedience in the US academic field. …”
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Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal by Serhat Uyurkulak

“…The quest for authenticity as an ethical ideal can be observed throughout the intellectual history of modernity from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century. …”
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Blütenmeere jenseits naturalisierender Literaturgeschichte by Jonas Hock

“…At the same time, journalist Gustav René Hocke published two volumes on Mannerism in art (I) and literature (II) in the series “rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie”, in which he advocated radically opposite views and presented a cyclical model of art and intellectual history. He promoted nothing less than the salvation of homo europeus by taking up an “irregular”, namely mannerist tradition. …”
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The Right to Petition in the Italian Revolutionary Triennium (1796-1799) by Cecilia Carnino

“…The focus will be on the right to petition from the perspective of ideas, intellectual history, and political cultural history. The first part of the article will deal with the right of petition in the Constitutions of the Italian Revolutionary Triennium by comparing the various Italian republican experiences and also taking into account the fundamental model represented by the French constitutions. …”
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Le passé indien et l’avenir de la nation au Mexique :Retour sur l’anthropologie critique de Guillermo Bonfil Batalla by Miriam Hernández Reyna

“…In this article we restitute several elements of the intellectual history of Bonfil Batalla. First, we situate his thinking in the context of an international anthropology that denounced the conditions of the lives of indigenous peoples in independent nation-states, and then we examine how the anthropologist's thinking feeds on these elements and contributed to create the critical trend in anthropology and its application in Mexico. …”
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Dari Sosialisme menuju Islam Makrifat: Evolusi Pemikiran HOS Tjokroaminotoaminoto, 1924 – 1928 by Miftakhus Sifa' Bahrul Ulumiyah

“…This study adopts a historical research method with an intellectual history approach and uses Hans-George Gadamers theory as a tool to analyse the texts and thought contexts. …”
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The Roman catastrophe of 1527 in the Italian Wars, or Sacco di Roma: analysis of the historical interpretation of the event by several contemporaries by Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich

“…As a result of considering both a number of sources and their historiographical analysis in the discourse of intellectual history the author concludes that the most logically compromising reflection of what happened around Sacco di Roma was made by the Florentine diplomat and historian of the Italian Wars era, Francesco Vettori, who pointed out the crisis of the institution of the papacy in the Italian politics of his time. …”
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The Encounter of Arabic Intellectual Discourses with Modernity: An Introduction and Critique of Book of Arabic and Modernity: A Study in the Discourse of Modernists by Mohammad Ali Tavana

“…In contrast to Belqiziz, the discourse of critical rationalism is the solution to these problems because of its reliance on the internal dialectic between self and the other, self and the other dialectical critique, nonlinear view of history (simultaneous intellectual history), cultural understanding of modernity, avoidance of absolutism, as well as the possibility of combining Western and Islamic. …”
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Mohammad Sjafei: A Nationalist Educator in West Sumatra by Listia Anita Wati, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…The role and contribution of these national thinkers are important to study in order to enhance understanding and knowledge in the field of intellectual history. One such national thinker examined in this article is Mohammad Sjafei. …”
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Is Communism Incompatible with Religion?: Islam and Communism in Haji Misbach's Thoughts (1914-1926) by Syaidina Sapta Wilandra

“…The data obtained is then analyzed using an intellectual history approach. This study found that when it was present in the Hindia Belanda, communism faced various other thoughts, including Islam. …”
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Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020): Philosopher, Polymath, Humanist by Sanya Osha

“…Throughout the huge conference, I had been beside Irele, ravenously tapping into his wealth of knowledge and experience, plying him with an endless barrage of questions relating to our intellectual history and the key figures who had indelibly marked and shaped its trajectory. …”
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Kazakhstan segment of Soviet historiography of agrarian colonization of Steppe region in second half of XIX–early XX centuries: factors of genesis and evolution by S. A. Abselemov

“…In the study based on methodological approaches and practices of cultural and intellectual history it was possible to trace the influence of the ideological principles of the Soviet state on the perception of colonialists in the domestic scientific community as a source of absolute and relative evil, to identify the circumstances that led to the recognition of the thesis of voluntary accession of the region to Russia. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…No longer burdened with the need to condemn his orientation, desire, or lifestyle, recent critics can readily appreciate the subtlety with which Pater interweaves intellectual history, aesthetic method, and sensual self-indulgence. …”
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'Giustizia fatta': observations sur un registre des condamnés à mort (1471–1764) de la bibliothèque de Beccaria by Pierre Musitelli

“…In short, this register of condemned men and women allows us to understand the fertile ground in which took root the penal humanitarianism that was an essential component of the Italian Enlightenment’s intellectual history. Résumé On trouve dans les archives de Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) un registre manuscrit inédit, rédigé en italien par différentes plumes anonymes, intitulé Elenco dei giustiziati in Milano: s’y étend sur plus de 200 pages la liste chronologique des exécutions publiques d’hommes et de femmes sur le territoire du duché de Milan, entre 1471 et 1764. …”
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