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Intellectual History June 12, 2020

Signs of the Americas

A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs and Khipu

Edgar Garcia

Hosted by David Gutherz
In his sixth thesis on the philosophy of history, Walter Benjamin wrote, “The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past …
Intellectual History September 7, 2018

Cold War Freud

Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes

Dagmar Herzog

Hosted by David Gutherz
'Create two, three—many Freuds!’ That, Dagmar Herzog shows, was the forgotten slogan of the Cold War. With Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (Cambridge University Press, 2017) …
Intellectual History May 31, 2018

No Exit

Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization

Yoav Di-Capua

Hosted by David Gutherz
Yoav Di-Capua's new book, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization (University of Chicago Press, 2018) is narrative intellectual history at its best: a tale of friendship and betrayal …