Rome, Liberty, and Rhetoric (Dr Valentina Arena)
How does the world of ideas impact our understanding of political practice? What notions of freedom shaped the Roman republic? And how can Roman understandings of rhetoric empower our thinking in the ...
27 Okt 201828min
Intellectual History, Critical Theory, and Method (Prof. Martin Jay)
What's the relationship between ideas and life experiences, politics and scholarship? How does our methodological self-consciousness evolve? What is the interaction between different schools of intell...
27 Okt 201823min
Enlightenment, Science, and Political Authorship (Prof. Avi Lifschitz)
Where did Enlightenment take place in the eighteenth century? Why were Enlightenment thinkers interested in the origins of language and the workings of the human mind? And can political rulers also be...
27 Okt 201823min
Politics, Language, and Nature (Dr Annabel Brett)
What makes early modern political thought fruitful for our thinking today? How do language and translation inform the writing of history? And why should animals be our starting point for thinking abou...
27 Okt 201828min
Enlightenment, Scotland, Europe (Prof. John Robertson)
In what ways has the question of Anglo-Scottish Union been - and become - urgent? What can historians learn from the philosophers' Enlightenment? These are some of the questions we discuss in this ep...
27 Okt 201830min
Beyond Human Rights (Prof. Samuel Moyn)
What is the relationship between neoliberalism and human rights? Does the exclusive focus on rights bias the discourse against other staples of ethical relations between humans, like duties? These ar...
27 Okt 201835min
Turkish Republicanism (Dr Banu Turnaoğlu)
What is the history of republicanism in Turkey? How did ideas travel between Turkey and Western Europe? And how can we write a transnational or even global intellectual history? These are some of the...
27 Okt 201827min
Sources, Forgeries, and Discoveries (Dr Felix Waldmann)
How do intellectual historians approach sources? What can a source change about existing narratives in the history of political thought? And why is it so important for intellectual historians to know ...
27 Okt 201828min
