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Elisabeth Paquette, "Universal Emancipation: Ra...
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference?
58 min
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James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Refor...
In Simpson’s account, liberalism did not flow neatly from Protestant triumph. Liberalism and Protestantism are indeed intertwined, but in a much more violent, anguished way than we’re familiar with...
86 min
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Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left"...
What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...
69 min
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Spencer Critchley, "Patriots of Two Nations: Wh...
America is in a Cold Civil War, between people who see each other as threats to the country — but themselves as patriots. How can that be? They are patriots of two nations...
58 min
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Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: ...
Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe...
29 min
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Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Bl...
One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...
68 min
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Adam Knowles, "Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: ...
Martin Heidegger was member of the Nazi Party. What does that mean for his thought?
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Sree Padma, "Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Recon...
Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...
32 min
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Brian Weatherson, "A History of Philosophy Jour...
Weatherson examines the entirety of research articles published in twelve major English-language philosophy journals between 1876 and 2013, identifying 90 topics across the journals to retrace their fortunes over time...
60 min
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Ernest Freeberg, "A Traitor to His Species: Hen...
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...
59 min
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Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
80 min
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall ...
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia...
56 min
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Elleni Centime Zeleke, "Ethiopia in Theory: Rev...
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia...
52 min
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Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern Hi...
Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars...
52 min
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Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Spa...
44 min
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Joshua Kotin, "Utopias of One" (Princeton UP, 2...
In "utopias of one," the authors at one and the same time publish for an external audience, but sketch out modes of living and being that are in important ways both non-accessible and non-replicable....
63 min
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Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citiz...
Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism,..
49 min
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Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Caroli...
Gershenshorn offers a history of the struggle for Black equality in North Carolina from 1927 to 1971 as told through the life and activism of Black newspaperman Louis Austin...
54 min
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Eric Weiner, "The Geography of Genius: Lessons ...
Living, as we do, in a time in which a U.S. president anoints himself “a very stable genius”, we are particularly appreciative of Eric Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for NPR who writes with humility and humor, as he brings us along with him on his travels to times and places that produced genius...
37 min
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Harrison Perkins, "Catholicity and the Covenant...
Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...
28 min
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John Loughlin, "Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Chr...
This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood and explores the concept in the Judaeo-Christian tradition....
71 min
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Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democ...
Is religion indispensable to public life?
47 min
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Ian Kumekawa, "The First Serious Optimist: A. C...
Over the course of his long career, Pigou advanced ideas that remain very relevant today...
42 min
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Abla Hasan, "Decoding the Egalitarianism of the...
Is it possible to interpret the Qur’an using the Qur’an alone? Is a feminist interpretation of controversial verses such as 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating” verse, possible?
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Cory C. Brock, "Orthodox Yet Modern: Herman Bav...
Herman Bavinck negotiated his conservative background through life-long engagement with the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher...
28 min