Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Professor West is among the nation’s most distinguished philosophers. For several decades running, Cornel West has infus...
1 Juni 202130min
Zahi Zalloua, "Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
The figure of the human looms large of the history of philosophy, from the ancient Greeks speculating about featherless bipeds to contemporary programmers wondering if they can recreate human intellig...
31 Maj 202147min
Bernard E. Harcourt, "Critique and Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, a...
31 Maj 20211h 8min
Matthew Thompson, "Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives" (Liverpool UP, 2020)
How can we develop solutions to the housing crisis? In Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpool UP, 2020), Matthew Thompson, a Leverhulme Early C...
27 Maj 202157min
Jon Dean, "The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good" (Policy Press, 2020)
Why do people give to charity? In The Good Glow Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good (Policy Press, 2020), Jon Dean, Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam Universit...
26 Maj 202137min
Ana Honnacker, "Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home" (Palgrave, 2019)
How can we feel at home in this world? Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home (Palgrave, 2019) offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its pote...
26 Maj 202159min
Nicholas Freudenberg, "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Every day, individuals decide what to eat, which doctors to see, who to connect with online, and where to educate their children. Yet, many Ame...
25 Maj 202132min
Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident is the focus of Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork, an ongoing project that investigates the politics of aerial su...
25 Maj 202150min
