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Modern Intellectual History Vol 14792443_8-3.qxd:mih 8/26/11 8:58 AM Page 1 vol. 8 | no. 3 | november 2011 | issn 1479–2443 Modern Intellectual History History Intellectual Modern Articles 499–530 Politics and Poetics of the Body in Early Modern Japan modern KATSUYA HIRANO 531–560 Heterogeneities, Slave-Princes, and Marshall Plans: Schmitt’s Reception in Hegel’s France STEFANOS GEROULANOS intellectual 561–590 The Catholic Origins of Totalitarianism Theory in Interwar Europe JAMES CHAPPEL 591–620 Hope and Memory in the Thought of Judith Shklar KATRINA FORRESTER history Essay 621–646 Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and Secularization in Early Modern Germany IAN HUNTER Review Essays vol. 8 647–658 The Search for the Origins of Modern Democratic Republican Political Thought in Early Modern Switzerland MARC H. LERNER 659–672 “The Power of Feeling”? Emotion, Sensibility, and the American Revolution | SARAH M. S. PEARSALL 3 no. 673–685 Once More Beyond Consensus: The “Transnational Turn” and American Liberal Nationalism | CARL J. GUARNERI november 2011 november 687–696 The Curious Career of Liberalism in India PARTHA CHATTERJEE 697–708 Looking for an Honest Man BRYAN GARSTEN MHI Cambridge Journals Online For further information about this journal please go to the journal website at: journals.cambridge.org/mih 14792443_8-3.qxd:mih 8/26/11 8:58 AM Page 2 Instructions for contributors 4. offprints modern intellectual history MIH serves as a focal point and forum for scholar- No paper offprints are provided, but the correspon- ship in intellectual history and related fields. Though ding author will be sent the pdf of the published its primary focus is on Europe and the United article. Print offprints may be purchased at extra States, it also devotes attention to intellectual and cost at proof stage. Editors cultural exchanges between the West, the non-West, and the Americas. 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