New Studies in the History and Historiog Beyond the Babylonian Trauma: Theories of Language and Modern Culture in the German-Jewish Context, Book 5, (Hardcover)

This series aims to publish monographs and collected works that reconsider the history of early modern, modern, and contemporary "Western" philosophy. The editors especially encourage projects that pursue novel approaches to authors, texts, and debates in the following areas:

1. Historically overlooked and undervalued authors, including women, members of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and "minor" figures whose contributions illuminate philosophical movements, themes, and topics in new ways.
2. Relations between philosophy and its broader contexts. Philosophy takes shape in relation to the economic, political, religious, and social dimensions of the lives of individuals and communities in which it emerges. New studies in the history of philosophy will both benefit from detailed investigation into how these dimensions of human life have informed the trajectory of philosophy and expand our understanding of how philosophy has historically situated itself within culture and society more generally.
3. Relations between philosophy and adjacent disciplines. Since modern disciplinary divisions are a product of the nineteenth century, studies of the history of philosophy that examine how philosophers drew on resources and pursued questions in what appears today to be multi- or transdisciplinary ways are essential for grasping the history of the discipline in its own terms.
4. New historiographical methods and commitments that bring the history of philosophy into productive conversation with other historical disciplines and pursuits. Feminist, decolonial, environmental, and global histories, to name only a few, promise to expand our understanding of the history of ideas and their legacies and reverberations in the modern world.
5. The historiography of philosophy. In addition to reconsiderations of the history of philosophy with new historiographical tools, we seek projects that focus more squarely on the philosophical stakes of historical methodology itself and that advance new critical reflections on the methods employed in writing the history of philosophy.