New Work In Intellectual History

By Institute of Intellectual History

Listen to interviews with intellectual historians about recent research and new publications.

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New Work In Intellectual History episodes:

June 23, 2022 The Political Thought of Thomas Spence
Our guest this episode is Dr Matilde Cazzola who introduces us to the
ultra-radical English thinker and activist Thomas Spence (1750–1814),
famous for his “Plan” for the abolition of private land ownership. Often
dismissed as an eccentric anachronistic figure, Spence is shown by Cazzola
to be a fascinating political agitator aiming for the overturning of the
ancien regime in favour of the “swinish multitude”. He is also, Cazzola
contends, a subtle thinker with something to contribute to radical thinking
about communal property today.
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56min
June 17, 2022 Adam Smith Reconsidered
Is Adam Smith an apologist for capitalism who viewed it as the fourth and
final stage of socio-economic development? Was Smith provoked into his
moral and economic defence of capitalism by Rousseau’s Second Discourse?
Much current Smith literature would suggest the answer to both questions is
yes. But, perhaps, questions like these indicate that something has gone
very wrong with our interpretations of Smith? Paul Sagar thinks so. We
explore what needs to change and why in this conversation about his newly
published and enjoyably iconoclastic Adam Smith Reconsidered: History,
Liberty and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Princeton, 2022).
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1h 9min
June 09, 2022 The Post-Medieval Reception of Medieval Manuscripts
In this episode Prof Margaret Connolly talks about the post-medieval
reception of medieval texts. Along a selection of eight manuscripts,
Margaret traces how three generations of a sixteenth-century family from
Middlesex read and used books from the fifteenth century. Examining their
annotations of the fifteenth-century manuscripts, Margaret derives insights
about the relevance of medieval contents for sixteenth-century readers and
places the individual personae into the context of the English Reformation.
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58min

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