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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
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Great Books: Maureen McLane on Wordsworth's Poetry
The British romantic poet William Wordsworth is best known for his moving evocations of nature,..
66 min
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Nicola Lacey, "In Search of Criminal Responsibi...
Lacey brings together philosophical, historical and socio-legal methods to give an account of the ever changing notion of responsibility in criminal law...
59 min
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Great Books: Nicholas Johnson on Samuel Beckett
“Another heavenly day” is the opening line of Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days (1961),...
65 min
2745
A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Rea...
The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...
52 min
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Shadaab Rahemtullah, "Qur'an of the Oppressed: ...
Rahemtullah offers a compelling comparative analysis of the works of four Muslim scholars of Islam – Asghar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas...
39 min
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Great Books: Denis Hollier on Lévi-Strauss' "Tr...
Ostensibly a travelogue and ethnographic account of a European's fieldwork among indigenous people in mid-20th century Brazil, it is a work of impassioned curiosity...
53 min
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Jon Piccini, "Human Rights in Twentieth-Century...
After the Second World War, an Australian diplomat was one of eight people to draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights...
66 min
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Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Pr...
Nahin offers a thorough study of the history and mathematics of the heat equation, which is not only important as an analysis of heat, its analysis marked the beginning of Fourier series...
49 min
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Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psych...
Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.
59 min