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April 15, 2021
The Hidden History of Coined Words
Ralph Keyes
Hosted by Marshall Poe
Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted …
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History
April 14, 2021
The Athenaeum
More Than Just Another London Club
Michael Wheeler
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their …
Japanese Studies
April 13, 2021
Flowering Tales
Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan
Takeshi Watanabe
Hosted by Jingyi Li
Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a …
Indian Religions
April 13, 2021
The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana
A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga
Ian Whicher
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Join Raj Balkaran as he discusses yoga philosophy with Ian Whicher. We begin with a discussion on how he began his journey towards yoga philosophy before probing his assertion that …
Education
April 13, 2021
Bearing with Strangers
Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion
Morten T Korsgaard
Hosted by Kai Wortmann
Bearing with Strangers: Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion (Routledge, 2018) looks at inclusion in education in a new way. By introducing the notion of the instrumental fallacy, it shows …
Law
April 12, 2021
Human Dignity in Context
Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, and Christoph Möllers
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the center of legal discourse on a global level. In 1949, Germany incorporated the concept …
Critical Theory
April 12, 2021
Abolishing Freedom
A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism
Frank Ruda
Hosted by Dominik Finkelde
Frank Ruda's book Abolishing Freedom. A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (University of Nebraska Press 2016) presents a compelling reading of authors diverse as Martin Luther, Descartes, Kant …
Philosophy
April 9, 2021
Marcus Aurelius
John Sellars
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations is one of the most popular philosophical works by sales to the public, while in academic philosophy he is considered somewhat of a philosophical lightweight. In Marcus …
Jewish Studies
April 9, 2021
Don Issac Abravanel
An Intellectual Biography
Cedric Cohen-Skalli
Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was an important forerunner of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier; a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings; a preacher and exegete …
Islamic Studies
April 9, 2021
Transformations of Tradition
Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity
Junaid Quadri
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In his much anticipated and equally brilliant book Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity (Oxford UP, 2021), Junaid Quadri explores the productive tensions, fissures, and creative interpretive projects …
History
April 9, 2021
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Mark A Waddell
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, Mark A. Waddell, Associate professor of History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science in the Department of History at Michigan State University in beautiful East …
Italian Studies
April 7, 2021
Old Schools
Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress
Ramsey McGlazer
Hosted by Ellen Nerenberg
Ramsey McGlazer's Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020), traces the ways in which a group of modernist cultural practitioners (thinkers, politicians, artists, poets, novelists …
African Studies
April 7, 2021
Street Archives and City Life
Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania
Emily Callaci
Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Emily Callaci's book Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania (Duke University Press, 2017) tells the histories of the young migrants who shaped the city of Dar es …
Anthropology
April 6, 2021
Anthropology and Radical Humanism
Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race
Jack Glazier
Hosted by Alex Golub
Paul Radin was one of the founding generation of American cultural anthropologists: A student of Franz Boas, and famed ethnographer of the Winnebago. Yet little is known about Radin's life. A leftist who was …
Literary Studies
April 6, 2021
The Shortest Way with Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel
Michael B. Prince
Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel (University of Virginia Press …
Science, Technology, and Society
April 5, 2021
Break on Through
Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture
Lucas Richert
Hosted by Chad Valasek
"Antipsychiatry," Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. The upheavals of the 1960s gave way to a decade …
Political Science
April 1, 2021
African American Political Thought
A Collected History
Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political theorists Melvin Rogers and Jack “Chip” Turner have produced a truly magisterial edited volume centering the work by African American thinkers over the past centuries. With thirty contributed chapters …
Eastern European Studies
March 31, 2021
Gender, Pleasure, and Violence
The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland
Agnieszka Kościańska
Hosted by Jill Massino
Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism …
Psychoanalysis
March 31, 2021
Freud and Said
Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis
Robert Beshara
Hosted by Vira Sachenko
Robert Beshara’s Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021) is a guide through the textual relationship between the work of Sigmund Freud and Edward Said. It is also a …
Indian Religions
March 30, 2021
Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy
A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge
Daniel Raveh
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) by Daniel Raveh introduces contemporary Indian philosophy as a unique philosophical genre through …
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