New Books in Intellectual History
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John Tweeddale, "John Calvin: For a New Reforma...
This book introduces principal themes of Calvin’s life, thought and literary achievements...
29 min
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Ryan Weber, "Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic ...
Musicologists have long tried to understand how cosmopolitanism and nationalism affected classical music...
57 min
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Christopher J. Shepherd, "Haunted Houses and Gh...
Anyone who tries to understand the history, religion, and especially the “culture” of Southeast Asia, will soon encounter the phenomenon of animism...
40 min
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Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: ...
Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...
33 min
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S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wol...
"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...
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Carol Zaleski, "The Fellowship: The Literary Li...
Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings...
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Ayelet Hoffman Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge ...
Libson examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE.
47 min
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Peter J. Boettke, "F. A. Hayek: Economics, Poli...
Boettke explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek...
46 min
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Saladin Ambar, "Reconsidering American Politica...
Ambar has written a masterful examination and analysis of American political thought in this new book which does, in fact, reconsider our thinking about this particular branch of political theory...
39 min
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Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Onew...
"Slavery in Islam" also offers a remarkable combination of intellectual and social history, anchored in layers of complex yet eminently accessible textual analysis...
68 min
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Misguided Bias: How Revisionism May Have Distor...
An interview with Adam Talib
8 min
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Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-...
Bergamin positions Ahimeir within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, and corrects some common misunderstandings surrounding the man and his ideology...
34 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Michael Menser, "We Decide!: Theories and Cases...
Menser a comprehensive treatment of participatory democracy, in which he delves into the history of democracy and offers an optimistic vision of the future of democratic participation in various forms and at different scales...
48 min
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Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel,...
Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...
115 min
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Abraham Kuyper, "On Education" (Lexham Press, 2...
Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...
42 min
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Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior'...
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Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federa...
Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...
34 min
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Daniel Kennefick, "No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919...
Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919...
36 min
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Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Et...
What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics?
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Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (R...
A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...
66 min
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Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western ...
Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..
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Gonzalo Lamana, "How 'Indians' Think: Colonial ...
Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Str...
Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.
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Jerome Gellman, "The History of Evil from the M...
Gellman discusses the flourishing of analytic philosophy of religion since the war, as well as the diversity of approaches to the topic of God and evil in this era...
48 min