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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”
58 min
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Giulia Bonazza, "Abolitionism and the Persisten...
Bonazza offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states...
59 min
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Mark Anderson, "From Boas to Black Power: Racis...
By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...
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Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language ...
Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...
62 min
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Greil Marcus, “Under the Red White and Blue" (Y...
Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself...
57 min
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Martin Jay, "Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt S...
Jay provides ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times...
86 min
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Fay Bound Alberti, "A Biography of Loneliness: ...
Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist...
50 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode, we begin with Eisler’s testimony before the skeptical Senators of the Committee on Banking and Currency in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 1934...
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Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...
68 min
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David Kaiser, "Quantum Legacies: Dispatches fro...
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science....
78 min
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Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
This volume takes Hegel as its key point of reference...
95 min
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Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early ...
Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...
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Peniel E. Joseph, "The Sword and the Shield: Th...
Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...
53 min
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Christian Kleinbub, "Michelangelo’s Inner Anato...
Kleinbub challenges the notion that Michelangelo, renowned for his magnificent portrayals of the human body, was merely concerned with “superficial” anatomy....
55 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode, we focus on one of Eisler’s most controversial works, a reconstruction of the 1st-century Roman Jewish historian Josephus’ account of the events surrounding the death of Jesus...
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Rachel Mundy, "Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beas...
What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?
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Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age o...
Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...
60 min
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Ruth Leys, "The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and...
Leys focuses on the post–World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive...
57 min
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Peter J. Boettke, "Public Governance and the Cl...
In our conversation we defined the disciplines of Public Choice and Public Administration and we named the key actors of a very long intellectual debate...
46 min
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Nicole Maurantonio, "Confederate Exceptionalism...
Maurantonio’s interdisciplinary book treats the state of Virginia as a confederate museum to be analyzed....
51 min
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Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Cla...
The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...
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Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...
49 min
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Zachary Carter, "Price of Peace: Money, Democra...
Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century,..
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
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Theodor Adorno, "The Authoritarian Personality"...
Adorno and his colleagues attempted to map the psychological and emotional dynamics of those who might find themselves seduced by authoritarianism...
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