New Books in Intellectual History
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Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman...
Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...
52 min
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Oded Y. Steinberg, "Anglo-German Thought in the...
Steinberg analyses the emergence of a particular notion of a “Teutonic” identity among a group of scholars in England and Germany...
46 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode, we talk with Michael Gubser about the pioneering art historian Alois Riegl, one of Eisler’s teachers in Vienna and a major influence on his thought...
53 min
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Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History ...
Ryrie offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism...
64 min
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Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theat...
Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...
59 min
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Ashley E. Kerr, "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gen...
Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...
64 min
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Anya P. Foxen, "Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, ...
Foxen traces several disparate yet entangled roots of modern yoga practice to show that much of what we call yoga...
54 min
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Philip A. Craig, "The Bond of Grace and Duty in...
Philip A. Craig’s new book on John Owen, the premier puritan theologian, demonstrates how carefully his subject tracked the influence of antinomianism in his writing...
34 min
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Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evo...
The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old...
52 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Beller...
49 min
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Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizensh...
Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...
58 min
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Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: B...
Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...
39 min
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Sherrow O. Pinder et al., "Black Political Thou...
"Black Political Thought" is nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “never ending issue” of the unequal positioning of black Americans...
101 min
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Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasur...
Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...
102 min
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Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experienc...
Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...
63 min
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Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the Americas: A Poetic...
Garcia sets sparks flying by inviting us to explore the literature and theory created by 20th and 21st century writers who deploy sign systems...
45 min
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Garrett Felber, "Those Who Know Don't Say: The ...
Felber examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalist to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination...
54 min
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Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Refle...
Each chapter in Filmed Thought treats a film in-depth, including works by Hitchcock, Ray, Malick, Sirk, Almodovar, Polanski, and the Dardenne brothers...
98 min
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Fadi A. Bardawil, "Revolution and Disenchantmen...
One of these movements, Socialist Lebanon, took root in the 1960s, and much Arab political thought has developed in its shadow ever since.,,
87 min
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Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, A...
Duncombe considers ancient views of relativity from Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics (particularly Simplicius), and the Stoics (particularly Sextus Empiricus)...
59 min
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Taylor Petrey, "Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality ...
A path-breaking work of religion and gender and sexuality, "Tabernacles of Clay" sets the agenda for a new generation of scholars interested in the recent Latter-day Saint past.
36 min
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Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Afric...
Where do good ideas come from?
86 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...
49 min
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Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Bl...
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human...
55 min
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Begüm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Constru...
Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....
73 min