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In 1927, an American’s polemic sets off a storm in British India; Indian women refuse to be spoken for; their activism transforms the political history of rights….
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The Cooperative Question, Then and Now
During the formation of the “global countryside,” the Indian cooperative offered a compelling reconciliation of the tenets of a market-based society with the moral-based ideas of community….
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Universal Rights and the Specters of Indian Feminism, Part II: An Interview with Mrinalini Sinha
In the late 1920s, Indian feminists found a brief opening for collective political agency as women. Why did this opening emerge—and then get foreclosed?…
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Alexandre Koyré and the Beginning of the End of History
It was Russo-French philosopher Koyré who first conceptualized the end of history, using it to ask questions about what imparts meaning to human time. His student, Kojève, later equated the end of history with that of politics….
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André Leroi-Gourhan’s Technological Sequences: An Interview with Nathan Schlanger
Nathan Schlanger discusses his book, “The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan,” which charts how Leroi-Gourhan helped make the study of techniques central to the many fields with which he engaged….
