New Books in Intellectual History

2784 Episodes

1. Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech

   Published: 2/17/2025
2. Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/16/2025
3. Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)

   Published: 2/16/2025
4. Trevor Wilson, "Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/15/2025
5. Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/14/2025
6. Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/14/2025
7. Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/13/2025
8. Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 2/13/2025
9. Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 2/13/2025
10. William Sweet, "Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics" (Peeters, 2023)

    Published: 2/12/2025
11. Frank Gerits, "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" (Cornell UP, 2023)

    Published: 2/12/2025
12. Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/12/2025
13. Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)

    Published: 2/10/2025
14. Josef Stern, "Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

    Published: 2/9/2025
15. Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)

    Published: 2/9/2025
16. Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/9/2025
17. Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)

    Published: 2/8/2025
18. Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

    Published: 2/8/2025
19. Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 2/7/2025
20. Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/6/2025