Lectures in Intellectual History
Intellectual History
Recordings from the popular public lecture series featuring new work on all aspects of intellectual history. Hosted by the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews. standrewsiih.substack.com
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Jan 23, 2020 • 1h 4min
Silvia Sebastiani - The Boundaries of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Orangutans, Slaves and Global Markets.
Dr Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS) delivered the 10th James H. Burnes Memorial Lecture on April 23, 2019 at the Institute of Intellectual History. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com
Dec 19, 2019 • 50min
Richard Whatmore - The End of Enlightenment: A synopsis of the 2019 Carlyle Lectures
Richard Whatmore (St Andrews) delivered this talk at the University of St Andrews on April 3, 2019. The talk was based on the Carlyle Lectures, which Professor Whatmore gave at the University of Oxford in the spring semester of 2019. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com
Dec 12, 2019 • 47min
Iain McDaniel - Writing the Intellectual History of Caesarism in the era of the Franco-Prussian War
Dr Iain McDaniel (Sussex) delivered the 16th István Hont Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Intellectual History (St Andrews) on April 2, 2019. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com
Dec 7, 2019 • 60min
Nathan Alexander - The Meanings of "Racism": Towards a history of the concept
Dr Nathan Alexander (Erfurt) delivered this talk at the University of St Andrews on February 2, 2019. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com
Nov 21, 2019 • 45min
Robin Douglass - The Moral Psychology of the Social Contract
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Nov 14, 2019 • 46min
Alex Douglas - Spinoza and Religion
Dr Alex Douglas is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com
Nov 7, 2019 • 56min
Paul Wood - The Rise and Fall of the Common Sense 'School' of Philosophy
The emergence of a Scottish 'school' of common sense philosophy has not yet been given the historical attention it deserves, despite the fact that the rise of common sense philosophy was one of the most important intellectual developments in the Atlantic world during the second half of the 18th century. In this lecture, Professor Paul Wood examines the responses of common sense philosophers such as James Beattie, James Oswald and Thomas Reid to David Hume's perceived scepticism and irreligion as well as Hume's subsequent reply to his critics. The lecture concludes with an account of the precipitous decline of the Scottish 'School' of common sense. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com
Nov 7, 2019 • 56min
Blair Worden - Ben Jonson and Liberty
Professor Blair Worden is an expert on early modern European history and the English Civil War period in particular. He has written numerous books, the principal of which are The Rump Parliament, 1648-1653 (1974), The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney's 'Arcadia' and Elizabethan Politics (1996), Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (2001), Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham (2007), The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (2009) and God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (2012). In this lecture, Blair Worden explores Ben Jonson's conception of liberty in relation to the writing of history. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com
Oct 31, 2019 • 56min
Riccardo Bavaj - The Spatiality of Ideas: Ernst Fraenkel, Richard Löwenthal, and the "Westernisation" of Political Thought
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Oct 31, 2019 • 40min
Nicholas Mithen - Codifying Good Taste: Historical Scholarship and Epistemic Virtue in Early 18th Century Italy
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