What do intellectual historians currently investigate? And why is this relevant for us today? These are some of the questions our podcast series, led by graduat...
Francis Bacon: A Lion under the Throne (with Richard Serjeantson)
According to some, Francis Bacon accomplished nothing less than a scientific revolution. Some even say he was the founder of modern science itself. Born into a world where natural magic, astrology, alchemy, and the wisdom of the Ancients were all accepted as authentic sciences, he left behind a body of work expressing a new and strange idea. In this radical vision, humanity was destined to free itself from its mundane misery by investigating nature and discovering its laws. It was a vision of collective action and incremental progress that sustains scientific practice to this day. Yet Bacon was also a deeply paradoxical figure. A lover of humanity and believer in progress, he was also a Machiavellian statesman committed to advancing the interests of the English state, as well as a self-seeking loner who married for money and disinherited his wife.
Richard Serjeantson, Cambridge’s foremost authority on Bacon’s life and legacy, tells us the intellectually exhilarating story of the man who ushered in our modern age of science.
This episode is hosted by Sam Tchorek-Bentall
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Big States, Small States, and the End of Enlightenment (Prof. Richard Whatmore)
What lessons can we draw from eighteenth-century thought about the relationship of big and small states? What are the limits of intellectual history? How and why did the Enlightenment end? Richard Whatmore, Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, joins us to discuss these questions and more.
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Equality, Intellectual Traditions, and the Seventeenth Century (Prof. Teresa Bejan)
What can the seventeenth century teach us about equality? Why do philosophers construct intellectual traditions and how do we use them? In what ways is political theory an educative endeavour? These are some of the questions we asked Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford.
Publications mentioned in this episode include:
First Among Equals: The Practice and Theory of Early Modern Equality. Under contract with Harvard University Press.
Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Harvard University Press, 2017)
“The Historical Rawls,” Special Forum for Modern Intellectual History, co-edited with Sophie Smith and Annette Zimmermann (2021).
“Rawls’s Teaching and the ‘Tradition’ of Political Philosophy,” Modern Intellectual History (2021).
“‘Since all the World is Mad, Why should not I be so?’ Equality, Hierarchy, and Ambition in the Thought of Mary Astell.” Political Theory (online first May 2019).
“The Two Clashing Meanings of Free Speech,” The Atlantic (2 Dec. 2017).
“Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Education,” Oxford Review of Education 36:5 (2010).
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Hume, the History of Philosophy, and the Concept of the People (Prof. James Harris)
How can we understand thinkers in their own terms? Why is such an approach particularly fruitful to understanding Hume? What can philosophy and the history of political thought learn from one another? What can Hobbes's conception of the people teach us about populism? James Harris, professor of the history of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, joins us to discuss these questions and more in this episode.
This episode's hosts: Zack Rauwald & Elena Yi-Jia Zeng.
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Representation, Public Debt, and the Ends of History (Dr Michael Sonenscher)
What is the relationship between war and representation? Why can't we understand the French Revolution without thinking about the political management of public debt? And what does the future have to do with how we write history? These are some of the questions answered by Michael Sonenscher, Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge.
This episode's hosts: Michael Kretowicz & Charlotte Johann.
Sobre Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast
What do intellectual historians currently investigate? And why is this relevant for us today? These are some of the questions our podcast series, led by graduate students at the University of Cambridge, seeks to explore. It aims to introduce intellectual historians and their work to everyone with an interest in history and politics. Do join in on our conversations!
(The theme song of "Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast" was created at jukedeck.com)
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