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
- 2025-01-04 22:22
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- 2025-01-04 09:00
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-04 |
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020) The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of d... |
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| 2025-01-03 | Avi Shlaim is a celebrated "New Historian” whose earlier work established him as an influential historian of Middle Eastern politics and especially of Israel's relations with the Arab world. Most recently he has turned to his own Iraqi/Israeli/British ... |
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| 2025-01-03 | What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick and author of the Progressive Geographies blog,... |
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| 2025-01-02 |
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023) In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, an... |
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| 2025-01-02 | On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Robcis grapples with the historical,... |
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| 2025-01-01 | In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era.... |
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| 2025-01-01 |
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024) The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism: A World History (Princeton UP, 2024), historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nati... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018) The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies on Hysteria, the good doctor from Vienna continues to stir controversy in institutions, academic circ... |
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| 2024-12-30 |
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024) There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantin... |
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| 2024-12-29 | Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At... |
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