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The Hedgehog and the Fox
By The Hedgehog and the FoxEducation
The Hedgehog and the Fox episodes
- Conversations with Publishers: Derek Krissoff, West Virginia University PressThis week, we launch a new series, Conversations with Publishers. It seems to me that being curious about books needn’t stop at the people who write them; it can also… Read More
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35 min - Mark Polizzotti: a translation manifestoMy guest this week is Mark Polizzotti, author notably of a biography of surrealist André Breton; publisher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and acclaimed translator from French of books… Read More
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40 min - Bradley Stephens: Victor Hugo, beyond Les MisérablesThis week we’re focusing on one of the nineteenth century’s most successful and influential writers, Victor Hugo. By the time of his death in 1885, Hugo was undoubtedly the most… Read More
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33 min - Tim Ingold: ‘Anthropology’s subject is humanity unsliced’This week we tackle a big question with my guest Tim Ingold: what’s the point of anthropology? Tim tells me: ‘Anthropology should be an ethical project which is dedicated to… Read More
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32 min - Amaranth Borsuk on The BookThis week the Hedgehog and the Fox turn their curiosity on books themselves, indeed on a book entitled The Book by Amaranth Borsuk, which appears in the MIT Essential Knowledge… Read More
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36 min - Sten-Åke Stenberg: Born in 1953I was in Stockholm for the first time a few weeks before Christmas, so I was intrigued when I recently came across a new book about a study that’s followed… Read More
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28 min - Lynn Hunt: why history mattersIn the first Hedgehog & Fox podcast of 2019, we grapple with some big questions – does history matter? If so, why? And is it, and other forms of knowledge,… Read More
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37 min - Paul Luna on typographyMy guest in this week’s programme is Paul Luna, who’s the author of a recent book on typography in the Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press. Paul is… Read More
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36 min - Monica Cure on the power of the postcardThis week the Hedgehog and the Fox examine the humble postcard. In fact, when the postcard was new it was anything but humble, as Monica Cure, my guest on today’s… Read More
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32 min - Jonathan Loesberg on translating a ‘lurid and breathless’ bestsellerA few weeks ago, I put up an interview with Anne O’Neill-Henry about her book Mastering the Marketplace, which examines the dawn of the era of the bestseller in nineteenth-century… Read More
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About The Hedgehog and the Fox
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Podcasts hosted by George Miller, presenting fresh ideas and stimulating conversations on a wide variety of subjects, with a particular focus is on books published by university presses.
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of these interviews may present bold new theories (in the spirit of the hedgehog) while others may focus in detail on something quite small, even overlooked (in the spirit of the fox). The driving forces are curiosity and the desire to communicate original thinking in an engaging, accessible way.
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