Charles Capper - Modern Intellectual History. Volume 08, Issue 02, August 2011 [2011][A]

Book Editors: Professor Charles Cappe, Dr Duncan Kelly, Professor Samuel Moyn, Professor Sophia Rosenfeld, Assistant Editor - Aaron Hiltner

Editorial Board: Professor David Armitage, Professor David Bates, Dr Duncan Bell, Professor Julian Bourg, Dr Richard Bourke, Professor Howard Brick, Professor Lawrence Buell, Professor Leslie Butler, Professor Deborah Coen, Professor Jeffrey Collins, Dr Faisal Devji, Professor Benjamin Elman, Professor Christian Emden, Dr Alexander Etkind, Professor Javier Fernández Sebastián, Professor Peter Gordon, Professor Cordula Grewe, Professor David A. Hollinger, Dr Joel Isaac, Professor Andrew Jainchill, Professor Mary Kelley, Professor James T. Kloppenberg, Professor Julien Victor Koschmann, Professor Javed Majeed, Professor Peter Mandler, Professor Karuna Mantena, Professor Suzanne Marchand, Professor Tracie M. Matysik, Professor Darrin M. McMahon, Professor Michael O'Brien, Professor Karen O’Brien, Professor Mark A. Peterson, Dr John Robertson, Professor Helena Rosenblatt, Professor Andrew Sartori, Professor Silvia Sebastiani, Professor David Sehat, Professor Celine Spectre, Professor Judith Surkis, Professor John Toews, Professor Daniel Wickberg, Professor Caroline Winterer

Journal Description
This important journal serves as a focal point and forum for scholarship on intellectual and cultural history from the mid-seventeenth century to the present, with primary attention to Europe and the Americas and to transnational developments that encompass the non-West. MIH enquires into intellectual discourses and texts, their contextual origins and reception, and the recovery of their historical meanings. The journal encompasses various forms of intellectual and cultural history, including political thought and culture, philosophy, religion, literature and literary criticism, social and natural sciences, visual arts and aesthetic theory, communications, law, economic thought, psychology, anthropology, music and the history of the book.

A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
Charles Capper and Anthony La Vopa
Roughly eight years ago we met in Manhattan with Nick Phillipson to plan a new journal to be launched by Cambridge University Press. Two Americans who knew each and had worked together well, and who were largely in agreement about what MIH should accomplish. We were well aware of the quality of Nick's scholarship, of course, and had heard through the transatlantic grapevine that he was a great colleague. Still, we were more than a little apprehensive. What if Nick had a totally different idea of the journal? What if the personal chemistry didn't work? Within an hour of our discussion we knew that we had “lucked out” on both counts. Readers familiar with Nick's work will surely agree that he has one of the sharpest and most imaginative minds in the discipline, and that he had been combining intellectual history with social and cultural history well before historians started making such a fuss about it. Manhattan was the right place to meet. An urban gentleman (in the best of senses), Nick is a gourmet of awesome range (everything from haute cuisine to deli food) and a sparkling conversationalist and raconteur. Lunch or dinner with him is an event. No one takes more care, or pleasure, in ordering a good bottle of wine. The subject of conversation need not be history; he is a lover of art and music, and has been very active in the cultural and civic life of Edinburgh, where he was a celebrated teacher at the university from 1965 to 2004.