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. Criti...
4 Jan 20251h 1min
Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
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 War...
3 Jan 202550min
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 ...
2 Jan 20251h 9min
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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 Chicag...
2 Jan 20251h 1min
In Conversation: The Antinomies of Afropessimism
In this episode, S. Sayyid talks with Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University) on the Antimonies of Afropessimism. Professor Barnor Hesse teaches in the department of African American Studies, at Northw...
1 Jan 20251h 3min
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 continue...
31 Dec 20241h
Loneliness
Loneliness is what results when a person is cut off from the living world. Ecological loneliness, in particular, is reciprocal - what we mete out always comes back to trouble us. However, as Laura Mar...
30 Dec 202420min
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and s...
29 Dec 20241h 14min
