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Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 5min

Episode 126: Thomas Pangle - The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries

A conversation with Thomas Pangle about his recent book "The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker" (Cornell UP).
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Jun 26, 2023 • 1h 18min

Episode 125: Laurence Cooper - Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom

A conversation with Laurence Cooper about his recent book, "Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau's Philosophic Life" (U of Chicago Press).
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Jun 9, 2023 • 1h 18min

Episode 124: Jeanne Morefield - Unsettling the World

A conversation with Jeanne Morefield about her recent book, "Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory" (Rowman & Littlefield).
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May 16, 2023 • 1h 21min

Episode 123: Mathias Thaler - No Other Planet

A conversation with Mathias Thaler about his recent book "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World" (Cambridge UP).
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Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 15min

Episode 122: Eric MacGilvray - Liberal Freedom

Exploring the origins and misconceptions of liberalism, Hegel's philosophy of right, the relationship between republican freedom and markets, the concept and value of republican freedom, the relevance of soft despotism to liberalism, and the fragility of liberalism's future.
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Apr 5, 2023 • 1h 15min

Episode 121: Richard Velkley - Sarastro's Cave

A conversation with Richard Velkley about his recent book, Sarastro's Cave: Letters from the Recent Past (Mercer UP).
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Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 20min

Episode 120: Frederick Neuhouser - Diagnosing Social Pathology

Topics discussed include rejecting harmful conceptions of social pathology, Marx's use of biological language in capitalism, the artificiality and construction of social conventions, Durkheim's view of political society, philosophy of history in the 19th century, and conceiving society as social pathology.
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Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 17min

Episode 119: Rebecca Kingston - Plutarch's Prism

A conversation with Rebecca Kingston about her recent book "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500-1800" (Cambridge UP).
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Mar 7, 2023 • 1h 5min

Episode 118: Michael Walzer - A Struggle for a Decent Politics

A conversation with Michael Walzer about his recent book, "A Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' as an Adjective" (Yale University Press). 
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Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 20min

Episode 117: Nicholas Tampio - Teaching Political Theory

A conversation with Nicholas Tampio about his recent book Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach (Edward Elgar).

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