Another Now.

Another Now. A Journal of the History of Ideas is a peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to the history of ideas, understood as a broad and interdisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws inspiration on the one hand from the tradition of scholarship inaugurated by Arthur Lovejoy and George Boas, founders of the Journal of the History of Ideas, and, on the other, from the work of the historian of ideas Paolo Rossi (1923–2012).  The journal's title is inspired by Paolo Rossi's 1999 book Un altro presente ("Another Now"). It aims to explore the past and analyze the present through its lens. The past is rediscovered not just as a world "other" than our own, but also as one marked by the same uncertainty and unpredictability that define our present. Too often, we fail to look back or do so only selectively and ideologically. The journal seeks to examine our present by tracing the complex roots of the problems we face.

Moving beyond the confines of narrow academic specializations, Another Now challenges the outdated notion of a divide between the "two cultures". It focuses on broad, long-term themes, particularly ideas that, due to their enduring influence, continue to evolve and reemerge in unexpected ways. The journal embraces problem-oriented analyses that cross disciplinary boundaries, in the spirit of Rossi and Lovejoy's collaborative, integrative approaches. [Publisher's text]