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Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
202
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: ...
An interview with José Vergara
54 min
203
Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock The...
An interview with Isabella M. Weber
49 min
204
Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: ...
77 min
205
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spiri...
69 min
206
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of M...
51 min
207
Liz Fischer, "Network Analysis for Book Histori...
44 min
208
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race ...
71 min
209
Vinay Lal, "India and Its Intellectual Traditio...
65 min
210
Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Col...
53 min
211
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Wor...
89 min
212
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches ...
95 min
213
Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of Am...
59 min
214
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederi...
74 min
215
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
216
Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Master...
71 min
217
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoana...
56 min
218
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
219
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeto...
63 min
220
Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdo...
64 min
221
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Mi...
66 min
222
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politi...
54 min
223
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
224
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
62 min
225
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (...
39 min