New Work In Intellectual History

New Work In Intellectual History

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New Work In Intellectual History episodes

  • The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century
    The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century
    to today―and the courageous counter-voices.
    In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Dagmar Herzog about her new book
    The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century
    (Princeton University Press, 2024). Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide
    claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with
    psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would
    these murders, as well as the coercive sterilisations of some four hundred
    thousand others classified as “feeble-minded,” be officially acknowledged
    as crimes at all. The Question of Unworthy Life charts this history from
    its origins in prewar debates about the value of disabled lives to our
    continuing efforts to unlearn eugenic thinking today.
    1 hr 5 min
  • Anticlerical Legacies
    In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Elad Carmel about his new book
    Anticlerical Legacies - The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c.
    1670–1740 (Manchester University Press, 2024). The conversation touches
    upon a wide range of topics related to 17th-century religion, reception
    history, and deism.
    1 hr 11 min
  • The Holy Alliance - Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
    In this episode, Seungeun Lee speaks with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his new
    book The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
    (Princeton, 2024).
    The book challenges the prevailing view of the Holy Alliance as a
    reactionary and illusory endeavor, as well as the idea of a linear
    progression of liberalism in opposition to such deviations. Nakhimovsky
    reconstructs the discourse around a liberal vision of a European
    federation, where reformers and patriots from smaller European states, as
    well as abolitionists beyond Europe, looked to Russia as the potential
    guarantor of a peaceful order.
    33 min
  • Edmund Burke
    In this interview, Ross Carroll (Dublin City University) talks about what's
    new and interesting in scholarship on Edmund Burke, following writing a new
    introduction to the great Irish thinker for Polity's Classic Thinkers
    series.
    50 min
  • Conservatism
    Mark Garnett, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University, has a
    bone to pick with commentators on the British conservative tradition and
    the British Conservative Party. In this wide-ranging conversation, he
    discusses how so often what the Party’s ideology is taken being the same
    thing as conservative political thought. But for most of its history, the
    Conservative Party has been anything other than conservative. Instead, we
    might understand the Party’s changing ideology in terms of the overlapping
    and competing perspectives of liberalism, nationalism and pragmatism. And
    we might also think again about what ‘conservative political thought’
    actually has been in England the past two centuries.
    1 hr 1 min
  • New Podcast: Zeitgeist und Geschichte
    In this bonus episode, we bring an interview with Professor Peter Gordon
    about the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969). The
    interview is part of a new podcast series on German Intellectual History
    entitled Zeitgeist und Geschichte. Discover more episodes here and
    subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.
    1 hr 18 min
  • Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals
    In this episode, Richard Whatmore speaks with Aurelian Craiutu about his
    new book Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals (CUP, 2023).
    The book challenges the conventional image of moderation as a “simple
    virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center
    between the extremes.” Instead, he shows moderation to be a complex virtue
    with a rich tradition and unexplored radical aspects. With its epistolary
    form, the book presents an imaginary dialogue between two young radicals
    and a passionate moderate, thereby outlining the distinctive political
    vision undergirding moderation in modern America.
    49 min
  • Hegel’s World Revolutions
    In this wide-ranging interview, Richard Bourke (King’s College Cambridge)
    discusses not only Hegel’s anatomy of the modern world, but how Hegel’s
    reputation changed over the twentieth century. In doing so, we discuss the
    significance of not only Hegel’s thought to contemporary society, but also
    the study of the history of political thought in general.
    1 hr 9 min

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