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Back to SearchMichael B. Gill, "A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 317
The third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) was a troubled soul – negative, misanthropic, and deeply troubled by his negativity and misanthropy. In A P…
2 years, 10 months ago
Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 76
The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders--and yet came to be considered, as Adam S…
2 years, 11 months ago
Mariana Alessandri, "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 64
Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the le…
2 years, 11 months ago
Maurizio Isabella, "Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 1321
After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna’s attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutio…
2 years, 11 months ago
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 658
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major…
2 years, 11 months ago
Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 224
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric (Princeton UP, 2023) examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Daniel A. Bell, "The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 59
I am not now nor at any time have ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet I serve as dean of a large faculty of political scienc…
2 years, 11 months ago
Carol Graham, "The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 135
In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of …
2 years, 11 months ago
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 182
Is libertarianism a progressive doctrine, or a reactionary one? Does libertarianism promise to liberate the poor and the marginalized from the yoke o…
3 years ago
Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 117
Listen to this interview of Helen Sword, professor emerita in the School of Humanities and the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation at the Unive…
3 years ago