Father of holism: Was Jan Smuts an intellectual?

Jan Smuts and Personality Theory: The Problem of Holism in Psychology

White masculinity: Jan Smuts, race and the South African war.

NO SINGLE FIGURE DID MORE to shape South Africa in the first fifty years of the twentieth century, or to establish it in the international imagination, than Jan Christiaan Smuts. Widely recognised in his day as an exceptional scholar, soldier, and scientist, he was also South Africa’s most outstanding white statesman in the twentieth century, the equivalent in terms of international stature the...

George Washington's infertility: why was the father of our country never a father?

George Washington was the single most important figure in the founding of the United States of America. Numerous biographies of Washington have been written and his name is honored in countless ways, including as the name of the United States' capital. Washington has become so idealized in U.S. consciousness that it is easy to lose sight of his failings and disappointments. Undoubtedly, one of ...

“ He was the father of us all . ” Ernie Guillemin

1 Abstract—Historians of electrical technology deal routinely with inventions, inventors, theoreticians, large-scale sociotechnological systems, and corporate and institutional history. Yet one category of major contributor to the development of the discipline is rarely considered in detail: the engineering educator. This paper presents the contribution of one of the outstanding teachers of ele...

Jan - Werner Müller European Intellectual History as Contemporary History

The first part of this essay examines the peculiar role European intellectual history played in coming to terms with the twentieth century as an ‘Age of Extremes’ and the different weight it was given for that task at different times and in different national contexts up to the 1970s. The second part looks at the contemporary history of politically focused intellectual history – and the possibl...