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Vinay Lal, "Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The...
64 min
127
Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and ...
43 min
128
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythica...
An interview with Marla Segol
54 min
129
Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its ...
41 min
130
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and th...
Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....
61 min
131
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
132
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: ...
An interview with José Vergara
54 min
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Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: ...
77 min
134
Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock The...
An interview with Isabella M. Weber
49 min
135
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spiri...
69 min
136
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of M...
51 min
137
Liz Fischer, "Network Analysis for Book Histori...
44 min
138
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race ...
71 min
139
Vinay Lal, "India and Its Intellectual Traditio...
65 min
140
Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Col...
53 min
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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches ...
95 min
142
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Wor...
89 min
143
Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of Am...
59 min
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Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederi...
74 min
145
Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" ...
Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.
60 min
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Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Master...
71 min
147
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoana...
56 min
148
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a V...
Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...
63 min
149
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeto...
63 min
150
Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdo...
64 min