New Books in Intellectual History
Interviews with Scholars of Intellectual History about their New Books
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- Interview with Scholars of Intellectual History about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-09 10:35
- last episode published
- 2025-03-09 08:00
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-09 |
Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher, "Meaning: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024) Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does meaning come from? What sorts of things have meaning? And how do we grasp the meaning others want to convey?... |
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| 2025-03-08 |
Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023) Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa (Harvard UP, 2023) is a revelatory new account of the magus―the learned magician―and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe. In literary legend, Faustus is the qui... |
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| 2025-03-08 | In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and i... |
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| 2025-03-04 |
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022) Constitutional Ratification Without Reason (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on constitutional ratification, the procedure in which a draft constitution is submitted by its creators to the people or their representatives in an up or down vote determining imple... |
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| 2025-03-02 | How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change—not just to do the... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024) Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much d... |
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| 2025-03-01 | Jana Byars talks to Ellen Arnold about Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, 300 - 1100 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex wo... |
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| 2025-02-28 |
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024) White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wan-Chuan Kao analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. The book argues that wh... |
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| 2025-02-26 |
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey In this conversation, we sit down with John D. Wilsey, Professor of Church History and Philosophy at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, to tackle the urgent and often contenti... |
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| 2025-02-26 |
Gregory Castle et al., "The Irish Bildungsroman" (Syracuse UP, 2025) The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development—the harmonization of individual desires with societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded, liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cult... |
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