New Books in Intellectual History
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Elizabeth S. Kassab, "Enlightenment on the Eve ...
Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...
56 min
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Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordi...
Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...
68 min
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Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring th...
From 1667 to 1676, a pivotal controversy played out among several mathematical luminaries of the time,..
57 min
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Joseph M. Adelman, "Revolutionary Networks: The...
Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization...
56 min
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M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History...
Did the early Christians believe their myths?
58 min
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Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance...
Kuby traces the fascinating history of the International Commission Against the Concentration Camp Regime (CICRC) established in 1949 by the French intellectual and Nazi camp survivor David Rousset...
59 min
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Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining ...
May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life...
50 min
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J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America...
There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...
28 min
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Is the Idea of "The Enlightenment" Still Useful?
A Discussion with Jeremy Black and William Gibson
45 min
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Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natu...
Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today...
49 min
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Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic...
The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...
57 min
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Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirit...
Otto “liberates Bauhaus history” with this work, drawing the focus from the handful of male artists like Klee and Breuer outward as she considers the other 1200 odd Bauhäusler...
71 min
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Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, "Reciting the Godd...
This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...
58 min
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Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil...
Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....
53 min
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Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a T...
It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...
70 min
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Elizabeth R. Baer, "The Genocidal Gaze: From Ge...
Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...
79 min
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Jamie Aroosi, "The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaar...
Aroosi has written an important book that brings together the theoretical work of Karl Marx and Soren Kierkegaard in a kind of intellectual encounter...
38 min
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Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti, "The Politics of Rel...
Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularization of the State and society...
56 min
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Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Lite...
Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...
65 min
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E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, "Freud/Tiffany...
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?
58 min
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Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation...
At the center of this analysis is what Meiches refers to throughout his text as the hegemonic understanding of genocide...
54 min
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Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Re...
Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...
57 min
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David Varel, "The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrect...
Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south, challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago...
63 min
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Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early Am...
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...
59 min
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Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Ninetee...
Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...
59 min