The ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering
intellectual history,
conceptual history, and the
history of ideas, including the histories of
philosophy
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,
literature
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and the
arts
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,
natural and
social sciences
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,
religion
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, and political thought.
The journal was established in 1940 by
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy and
Philip P. Wiener and has been published by the
University of Pennsylvania Press
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History
The press was originally incorporated with b ...
since 2006. In addition to the print version, current issues are available electronically through
Project MUSE, and earlier ones through
JSTOR
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. The
editors-in-chief are
Joyce Chaplin (
Harvard University
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),
Stefanos Geroulanos (
New York University
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),
Adom Getachew (
University of Chicago
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),
Ann E. Moyer (
University of Pennsylvania
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), Sophie Smith (
University of Oxford
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), and
Don Wyatt (
Middlebury College). Distinguished former editors include
Arthur Lovejoy,
John Herman Randall,
Paul Oskar Kristeller,
Philip P. Wiener,
Donald Kelley,
Lewis White Beck
and
Anthony Grafton. Since 2015, the Journal is complemented by a blog, which publishes short articles and interviews related to intellectual history.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Further reading
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References
External links
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Website of the Journal of the History of Ideas BlogIssues from Volume 57 (1996) through current issueIssues from Volume 1 (1940) through 2019
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