Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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See the new issue of History of Social Science, just published! Half the articles are free, including @brad.bolman.com’s account of Bruno Latour’s blocked appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study and Chas Camic’s short bio of Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class muse.jhu.edu/issue/56614
In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/985884
Small supplementary note: I'm really thankful to @histsocialscience.bsky.social for letting this article run long (hopefully not too long), an opportunity that is really vanishing in modern scholarly publishing
The second issue of our journal @histsocialscience.bsky.social is here! Read now via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55727
The second issue of History of Social Science (the new journal from @pennpress.bsky.social) is live, with half the articles in temporary free access muse.jhu.edu/issue/
Back in the late 1960s, Mondale proposed creating a national Council of Social Advisers, which would draw on social science to support a liberal reform agenda. This initiative's failure symbolized the collapsing faith in the possibility of well-informed progressive state muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
The first issue of History of Social Science (brand new journal with @pennpress.bsky.social) is published in free access. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109
The first issue of History of Social Science is available now
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My review of the excellent Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by @bernarddionysius.bsky.social is out now in the new and very exciting @histsocialscience.bsky.social! Available open access here~~
muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
🚨 SOUNDING THE NEW JOURNAL KLAXON 🚨
Looks great!