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Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Re...
Loughnan questions assumptions about the rise and prominence of criminal responsibility from the late colonial period until recent times...
58 min
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Pablo Meninato, "Unexpected Affinities: The His...
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects has not been comprehensively analyzed...
46 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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James Bernard Murphy, "How to Think Politically...
What is truly at stake in politics?
58 min
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Santiago Zabala, "Being at Large: Freedom in th...
In recent years, questions around the nature of truth and facts have reentered public debate...
54 min
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Nancy J. Chodorow, "The Psychoanalytic Ear and ...
Chodorow advocates for a return to an interest in the social and social sciences in psychoanalytic thinking...
63 min
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Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Mar...
Elkins examines ancient representations of mothers and children in the context of sociopolitical violence....
53 min
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Derek Penslar, "Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic ...
The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief...
49 min
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Nancy Mattina, "Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys...
Mattina offers the first full biography of Reichard, and examines her pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language; and her exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring...
62 min
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Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteent...
Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she terms the “woman-slave analogy” in nineteenth-century US feminist discourse...
48 min
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Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Dialogue and Doxogr...
This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu
57 min
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Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in M...
McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...
69 min
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Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conse...
Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...
46 min
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Matthew Miller, "The German Epic in the Cold Wa...
Miller explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature...
66 min
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Abram Van Engen, "City on a Hill: A History of ...
Van Engen examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and American Exceptionalism...
32 min
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Dominik Finkelde, "Excessive Subjectivity: Kant...
How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?
74 min
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Alexander Zevin, "Liberalism at Large: The Worl...
Zevin helps us see what he calls “really existing liberalism”––that is, a liberalism that rooted for empire, embraced finance, and has always wielded an ambivalence towards democracy...
66 min
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Lucia Rubinelli, "Constituent Power: A History"...
48 min
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James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided Americ...
Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...
67 min
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Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (O...
Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...
85 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
57 min
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Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Rig...
The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...
64 min
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Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrica...
Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,
52 min
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David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland, "Learning F...
Kettler and Wheatland pays special attention to Neumann's efforts to break down the conventional divide between political theory and the empirical discipline of political science...
60 min