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High Theory
April 1, 2022
Welcome to High Theory!
Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu
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Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
Intellectual History
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Interviews with intellectual historians about their new books.
Biblical Studies
June 28, 2022
Satan and the Problem of Evil
From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers
Archie T. Wright
Hosted by
Jackson Reinhardt
Satan's transformation from opaque functionary to chief antagonist is one of the most striking features of the development of Jewish theology in the Second Temple Period and beyond. Once no …
Intellectual History
June 28, 2022
The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton
Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds.
Hosted by
Hope J. Leman
How much does the average person know about Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804)? Would we have guessed that this hero of many fiscal conservatives wrote, “A national debt, if it …
General History
June 28, 2022
Benjamin Franklin
Cultural Protestant
D. G. Hart
Hosted by
Zachary McCulley
Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin …
Literary Studies
June 27, 2022
Ahab Unbound
Melville and the Materialist Turn
Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
Hosted by
John Yargo
Today’s guests are Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the co-editors of a bracing new collection of essays about the figure of Ahab in Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. Meredith is the …
Literary Studies
June 24, 2022
Eternalized Fragments
Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
W. Michelle Wang
Hosted by
Gargi Binju
Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2020) explores the implications of treating literature as art--examining the evolving nature of aesthetic inquiry in literary studies, with …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
June 24, 2022
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws
And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities
Adrienne Mayor
Hosted by
Mark Klobas
Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights--glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth--embedded in myth, legends …
Biography
June 24, 2022
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
Marc David Baer
Hosted by
Armanc Yildiz
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most …
Indian Religions
June 23, 2022
The Transformation of Tamil Religion
Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood
Srilata Raman
Hosted by
Raj Balkaran
Srilata Raman's book The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood (Routledge, 2022) analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th …
Neuroscience
June 23, 2022
A Synthesizing Mind
A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory
Howard Gardner
Hosted by
Galina Limorenko
Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind was that rare publishing phenomenon--a mind-changer. Widely read by the general public as well as by educators, this influential book laid out Gardner's theory of …
Critical Theory
June 22, 2022
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Joseph A. Boone
Hosted by
Morteza Hajizadeh
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers …
Arguing History
June 21, 2022
Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
A Discussion with John-Paul Himka, David R. Stone, and Alexander Watson
John-Paul Himka, David R. Stone, and Alexander Watson
Hosted by
Charles Coutinho
In the midst of the ongoing war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, it is vital that the lay-educated public understand the historical origins of the conflict. It is with …
Biography
June 20, 2022
Life Under the Palms
The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner
Paul Van Der Velde
Hosted by
Cresa Pugh
Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754–1809) was one of the most popular European travel writers of the early nineteenth century, writing in the Romantic mode. A Dutch citizen, Haafner spent more than …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
June 20, 2022
Professor of Apocalypse
The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
Jerry Z. Muller
Hosted by
Renee Garfinkel
Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished …
Philosophy
June 20, 2022
How Things Are
An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics
Mark Siderits
Hosted by
Malcolm Keating
Mark Siderits’ How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022) is a wide-ranging survey of how Buddhist philosophers think about the nature of the world. The …
Critical Theory
June 16, 2022
Science and Religion
A Very Short Introduction. Second Edition
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro
Hosted by
Morteza Hajizadeh
Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious values and medical recommendations, or questions about how …
High Theory
June 16, 2022
Economics
A Discussion with Matt Seybold
Matt Seybold
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Matt Seybold talks about the development of economics as a discourse inside and outside the academy, its success in making itself felt to be the only discourse that can talk …
General History
June 16, 2022
The Atlantic Realists
Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States
Matthew Specter
Hosted by
Sean Byrnes
In The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States (Stanford UP, 2022), intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a …
Indian Religions
June 16, 2022
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism
Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality
Karen O'Brien-Kop
Hosted by
Raj Balkaran
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism (Bloomsbury, 2021) revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O'Brien-Kop also develops an alternative …
Literary Studies
June 16, 2022
Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
Adam Grener
Hosted by
Su Min Kim
In Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel (Ohio State UP, 2020), Adam Grener advances a new approach to evaluating realism in fiction by arguing that nineteenth-century literary realism …
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