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Jacob Saliba

@jacobsaliba.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame | modern Europe, religion, continental philosophy, social theory | former Primary Editor @jhideas.bsky.social

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For the Blog, Alexander Aerts interviews Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba about their edited volume, "Authority, History, and Political Theology" (Bloomsbury, 2026), which documents the relationship between philosopher Alexandre Kojève and theologian Gaston Fessard. @jacobsaliba.bsky.social
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Kojève and Fessard on Political Theology: An Interview with Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba
Alexander Aerts interviews Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba about their edited volume, "Authority, History, and Political Theology," which documents the relationship between philosopher Alexandre Kojève...
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My review of a swell new collection on Hegel, Kojev and Fessard marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2291...
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‘Authority, History and Political Theology: Collected Works and Correspondence of Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard’ by Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba (eds) reviewed by Matt McManus
Alexandre Kojève is one of the more mercurial figures in the history of continental thought. Born in the Russian empire in 1902, Kojève initially supported the Bolshevik Revolution – but not quite eno...
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Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So thrilled that our book—including the writings, correspondences, lectures, and reviews between Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard, SJ—is now officially published! Please enjoy and don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like a review copy. www.bloomsbury.com/us/authority...
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The JHI Blog has released a call for submissions to its forum on the “Conceptual History of Technology.” Pitches are due on May 7.
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Call for Submissions: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology
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Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A tremendous pleasure interviewing Brandon Bloch on his new book! We discuss not only the nature and practice of religious nationalism in modern Germany but also how religion has animated, transformed, and negotiated the future—and ultimate limits—of secular politics today.
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.
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Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context
by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas." @mflohr.bsky.social
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The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History: A JHI Blog Forum
by Jonathon Catlin, Paige Pendarvis, and Jacob Saliba In recent years, intellectual history has been said to be undergoing a renaissance at the same time as it has been institutionally hollowed out. R...
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Registration is now open for the JHI Graduate Student Symposium, to be held on Saturday, October 4 via Zoom. Peruse the program and register to attend:
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JHI Graduate Student Symposium, “Between the Text and Material History”: Registration Now Open
The 2025 JHI Graduate Student Symposium will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025, on Zoom. Registration is now open.
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Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Pre-order is officially available for our expansive volume on the influential Hegelian philosopher Alexandre Kojève and his friend the Jesuit theologian Gaston Fessard. For the first time in English, this volume includes their letters and writings over four decades. www.amazon.com/Authority-Hi...
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
In today's think-piece, Sam Chian discusses Immanuel Wallerstein alongside W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of decolonization and Pan-Africanism.
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After the Year of Africa: W. E. B. Du Bois, Immanuel Wallerstein, and the Sociology of Decolonization
by Sam Chian
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We're now accepting proposals for the JHI Graduate Student Symposium, to be held via Zoom on October 4. This year's symposium, “Between the Text and Material History," will explore how historians’ engagement with visual and material sources extends the discipline’s intellectual realms.
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JHI Graduate Student Symposium, 2025: “Between the Text and Material History,” Call for Proposals
Now accepting proposals for the JHI Graduate Student Symposium.
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Today on the blog, Thomas Cryer interviews David Weinfeld on his latest book, "An American Friendship." They discuss the role of friendship in reconstructing the pluralist thought of Horace Kallen and Alain Locke.
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Friendship and the Politics of Difference: An Interview with David Weinfeld
by Thomas Cryer
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
JHI Blog welcomes submissions for a forum on the relationship between new work in intellectual history and political economy. Submit a proposal by May 15. Read the call here:
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Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the relationship between new work in intellectual h...
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In today's think piece, Sam Chian provides an original and intellectually rich portrait of the early years of famed American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein.
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Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America
by Sam Chian
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Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Part two of our interview with intellectual historian Elias Palti is out! We take up more contemporary stakes, challenges, and opportunities in the field today.
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Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A great pleasure convening this @jhideas.bsky.social interview with award-winning intellectual historian Elias Palti on his latest book, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. Please enjoy! (Pt. II of this interview will be made available on Wednesday!)
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American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
ACHA President @anthonyb1939.bsky.social interviewed Film Director Martin Scorsese in an ACHA exclusive event at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Be on the look out for the transcript of this conversation. He received the ACHA’s Distinguished Service Award. #ACHA2025
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Mike Pasquier @pasquieractual.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The great @anthonyb1939.bsky.social with Martin Scorsese at the Basilica of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral @achahistory.bsky.social #ACHA2025 #ACHA25 #AHA2025 #AHA25
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Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It’s always a great pleasure to present at the annual @achahistory.bsky.social and this year’s conference was extra special after winning a small raffle—a ‘support Catholic schools’ pin. (I confess that there was a Pope John Paul II vintage baseball card that had my eye… maybe next year.)
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Our newsletter includes round-up of recent JHI Blog posts and a some of the year’s most-read journal articles, which are freely available for the next few weeks: mailchi.mp/742b2d4d8001... Have a look—and resolve to submit an article or blog post to the journal or JHI Blog in the new year!
A list of some of hte JHI's most-read articles from 2024 which are freely available for several weeks:
Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part One: Rethinking the “Origins” of US Intellectual History by Sophie Smith
Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, and the Future by Sophie Smith
Alternate Edens: History, Evolution, and Origins in UNESCO's Cultural and Scientific History of Mankind by Emily M. Kern
Sophie de Grouchy’s Political Thought in the "Letters on Sympathy" (1798) by Minchul Kim
“Facts” and “Ideas”: Richard Jones, William Whewell, and the Entangled Histories of Science and Political Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain by Upal Chakrabarti
Prisoner, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Hobbes on Coercion and Consent by Daniel Luban
Legal Analogies in Cicero's Political Thought by Maarten Klink
Historicizing a Dream of Complete Science by Nasser Zakariya
Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity by Stuart Elden
"Building the Earth": Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Science, and the Spirituality of the United Nations by Sarah Shortall
The Influence of the Principle "Necessitas Non Habet Legem" on Nordic Medieval Laws on Theft by Mia Korpiola and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A new virtual issue of the JHI highlights recent publications of relevance to French intellectual history since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024...
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Virtual Issue: Recent Work in French Intellectual History
This virtual issue highlights recent publications in the JHI of relevance to French intellectual history since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The reason for compiling it is relatively sim...
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Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My peer-reviewed article on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain's decisive role during WWII as co-founder and president of the Free French University, a hub for intellectuals in exile including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alexandre Koyré, Jean Wahl, and others! crossworks.holycross.edu/jgc/vol9/iss...
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"Responding to the Global Crisis: Jacques Maritain and World War II" by Jacob Saliba
This article offers an interdisciplinary study of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain during World War II in order to provide an historical resource for understanding the global dimension...
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Wondering where else to find and follow the JHI Blog?
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
In today’s think-piece, primary editors Artur Banaszewski and Jacob Saliba discuss the influence of Leszek Kołakowski on Tony Judt’s interpretation of the Cold War. www.jhiblog.org/2024/08/05/l...
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Lessons of the Cold War: The Influence of Leszek Kołakowski on Tony Judt
by Artur Banaszewski and Jacob Saliba
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Today the blog features Steven Shapin writing on Bruno Latour. This piece is drawn from Shapin's talk at the Harvard symposium “Thinking after Latour," honoring the memory of Bruno Latour and reflecting on his work. www.jhiblog.org/2024/10/28/a...
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A Serious Man
by Steven Shapin
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