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Edmund Burke and the Moral Imagination

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💭 Can feeling and imagination preserve what reason alone cannot? In this episode, Jack Thomson explores the political vision of Edmun…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Moderation and Memory: Rapin de Thoyras and the Making of English Party

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How did a French Huguenot exile end up writing the history that shaped how England understood its own political parties? This episode…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

History of Ideas Clubs: Industrialisation and Karl Marx

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Step into the upheaval of the long nineteenth century in this History of Ideas Club recording 🎙️

“Industrialisation and Marx: The Maki…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

History of Ideas Club: The Birth of the Modern Republic: France, America, Haiti

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Step into one of the defining political transformations of modern history in this History of Ideas Club recording 🎙️

“The Birth of the…

7 months, 1 week ago

History of Ideas Club: Revolution of Modernity: Descartes, Kant, Hegel

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Step into one of the most transformative moments in intellectual history in this History of Ideas Club recording 🎙️

“Revolution of Mod…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Joseph de Maistre: Order, Authority, and the Counter-Revolution

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Why did the French Revolution convince some thinkers that reason itself was the enemy? Joseph de Maistre's reactionary philosophy rem…

8 months ago

History of Ideas Club: The Copernican Revolution in Astronomy

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Copernicus demonstrated for the first time that the Earth orbits the sun, and not the reverse as was previously thought. Previous mea…

8 months, 1 week ago

Augustine’s City of God

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Written as Rome burned, Augustine's City of God asked whether any earthly political order could ever be sacred. Sixteen centuries lat…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

History of Ideas Club: The English Civil War

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The conflict between monarchical and republican visions of the state reflects far deeper disagreements about the human person - espec…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

History of Ideas Club: The Gregorian Reforms and the Protestant Reformation: Changing Concepts of Law and State

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In the eleventh century, the Gregorian Reforms sought to impose coherence on ecclesiastical or canon law and to clarify the relations…

9 months, 1 week ago