Lectures in Intellectual History

By Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews

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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.

Episode Date
Christopher de Bellaigue - "Suleyman the Magnificent and the 16th-century race for empire"
Apr 03, 2024
Ariane Fichtl - “Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation”
Mar 21, 2024
Tim Stuart-Buttle - "Behind the Curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition"
Mar 07, 2024
Richard Whatmore - "The End of Enlightenment (book launch)"
Dec 27, 2023
Jesse Norman - "Ambition, revenge, truth, fiction - The Winding Stair"
Dec 22, 2023
Vassilios Paipais - "Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology"
Dec 20, 2023
Adam Sisman - "The Perils of Biography"
Nov 14, 2023
Alan Kahan - "Three Pillars and Four Fears: A History of Liberalisms
Nov 14, 2023
James Harris - “Hobbes and Rousseau on ‘the act by which a people is a people’”
May 18, 2023
Brian Young - "Utilitarianism and the universities in Victorian England: the brothers Grote in nineteenth-century thought"
May 04, 2023
Sarah Mortimer - "Virtue beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe"
Apr 13, 2023
Ariane Fichtl - "Bound with the enslaved: the role of women in the formation of the political discourse of Immediate Abolitionism and its egalitarian framework"
Apr 06, 2023
Martine van Ittersum - "The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: A Case Study in the Micro-Sociologies of Archives"
Oct 06, 2022
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Maria Rosa Antognazza
Sep 18, 2022
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Jamie Gianoutsos
Sep 13, 2022
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Carole Levin
Sep 07, 2022
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians – Tae-Yeoun Keum
Aug 29, 2022
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Jacqueline Broad
Aug 22, 2022
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Eileen M. Hunt
Aug 17, 2022
Emma McLeod - "John Bruce, precedent, and the 'mind of government' in the English and Scottish state trials of 1793-94"
May 31, 2022
Rosa Antognazza - Leibniz as Historian
May 24, 2022
Karie Schultz - Holy war advocates or secular political theorists? The case of the Scottish Covenanters, 1638-1646
May 17, 2022
Craig Smith - Adam Smith and the Limits of Philosophy
Apr 20, 2022
Jesse Norman - Uses and abuses of the Ancient Constitution
Apr 09, 2022
Ryan Hanley - Commerce before Capitalism: Fénelon, Vauban, and Boisguilbert
Mar 18, 2022
John Robertson - The Refutation of Natural Law by Sacred History in Giambattista Vico's New Science
May 07, 2020
Giulia Delogu - The Emporium of Words: Free Ports and Port Cities as Laboratories of Modernity (16th-19th centuries)
Mar 26, 2020
Thomas Maissen - Britannia and her sisters in the 16th and 17th centuries: Political Representation and Iconography
Mar 19, 2020
Ian MacLean - Old wine in new bottles? Hippocrates, the classical tradition and the Early Enlightenment
Mar 05, 2020
David Weinstein - Green's Hume
Feb 20, 2020
Lucia Rubinelli - Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Weimar Germany
Feb 13, 2020
James Poskett - Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920
Feb 06, 2020
Emma Hunter - Africa and the Global History of Liberalism
Jan 30, 2020
Silvia Sebastiani - The Boundaries of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Orangutans, Slaves and Global Markets.
Jan 23, 2020
Richard Whatmore - The End of Enlightenment: A synopsis of the 2019 Carlyle Lectures
Dec 19, 2019
Iain McDaniel - Writing the Intellectual History of Caesarism in the era of the Franco-Prussian War
Dec 12, 2019
Nathan Alexander - The Meanings of "Racism": Towards a history of the concept
Dec 07, 2019
Robin Douglass - The Moral Psychology of the Social Contract
Nov 21, 2019
Alex Douglas - Spinoza and Religion
Nov 14, 2019
Paul Wood - The Rise and Fall of the Common Sense 'School' of Philosophy
Nov 07, 2019
Blair Worden - Ben Jonson and Liberty
Nov 07, 2019
Riccardo Bavaj - The Spatiality of Ideas: Ernst Fraenkel, Richard Löwenthal, and the "Westernisation" of Political Thought
Oct 31, 2019
Nicholas Mithen - Codifying Good Taste: Historical Scholarship and Epistemic Virtue in Early 18th Century Italy
Oct 31, 2019
Teresa Bejan - Equality and hierarchy in the thought of Mary Astell
Oct 31, 2019
Susan James - Putting One's knowledge to work: Spinoza on 'fortitudo'
Oct 31, 2019
David Armitage - The Dark Side of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: Civilisation and Civil War
Mar 14, 2018
Richard Whatmore - Scotland, Europe and the End of Enlightenment
Nov 22, 2017
Janet Coleman - Reflections on the Self Itself: in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and what happened next?
Nov 06, 2017
Lynette Mitchell - Monarchs in democracy
Oct 17, 2017
Gareth Stedman Jones - Karl Marx and the Emergence of Social Democracy
Sep 19, 2017
Susan Manly - Maria Edgeworth as political thinker: government, rebellion and punishment
Apr 25, 2017
Sophie Page - Cosmology and Ritual Magic in the Late Middle Ages
Apr 18, 2017
Caroline Humfress - Natural law and casuistic reasoning in Roman jurisprudence
Apr 11, 2017
Phil Connell - Wordsworth’s “Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty” (1802-3) and the British Revolutionary Past
Apr 04, 2017
Rory Cox - Just War Doctrine in Ancient Egypt
Mar 28, 2017
David D’Avray - How to do intellectual history
Mar 07, 2017
Tom Jones - George Berkeley in Livorno: Missionary Anglicanism and Commerce
Feb 07, 2017
Katrina Forrester - The Origins of Contemporary Liberal Theory Revisited
Jan 23, 2017
Michael Sonenscher - Hobbes, Rousseau and Democratic Politics
Nov 29, 2016
Steve Rigby - Marxism and the Middle Ages
Nov 15, 2016
Kleanthis Mantzouranis - Aristotle on the Ethics of Wealth
Nov 01, 2016
Milos Vec - The 'Family of Nations': A rhetorical figure and its ideology
Oct 10, 2016
Aaron Garrett - Moral Knowledge and the Decline of the Grotian Programme
Sep 27, 2016
Anthony Black - How to Plan a Global History of Political Thought
Sep 20, 2016
Eric Nelson - Barons' Wars, under other names: Magna Carta, Royalism, and the American Founding
Sep 13, 2016
Rachel Hammersley - The Republican Theorist as Royal Servant: James Harrington's Civil War
Sep 13, 2016
Quentin Skinner - A genealogy of liberty
May 04, 2016
Laszlo Kontler - The Enlightenment Narrative in the Age of Liberal Reform: William Robertson in Hungary
Apr 05, 2016
Mark Elliott - The contribution of the history of exegesis to the history of ideas
Mar 08, 2016
Béla Kapossy - Liberty before neo-Roman republicanism: Haller’s restoration of political science
Feb 02, 2016
Dimitris Kastritsis - The Alexander Romance and the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
Jan 26, 2016
Christian Maurer - The Forgotten Range of Defences of Sociability: Hutcheson and Campbell on Hobbes
Dec 02, 2015
Jane Judge - Ce que nous allons devenir. Belgian national identity in eighteenth-century revolution
Nov 10, 2015
John Dunn - Why We Need a Global History of Political Thought
Nov 04, 2015
Ian Hunter - The History of Dialectical History: The Case of International Law
Oct 30, 2015
David Allan - Reading and Remembering: Intellectual History and the Commonplace Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
Sep 29, 2015
Nick Phillipson - Hume, Smith and the Science of Man in Scotland
Sep 15, 2015
Keith Tribe - Utilitarianism, the Moral Sciences, and Political Economy: Mill-Grote-Sidgwick
May 11, 2015
Philip Schofield - Jeremy Bentham on Truth and Utility
May 05, 2015
James Harris - A New Approach to the Intellectual Biography of David Hume
Apr 14, 2015
Michael Bentley - Intellectual History and the Study of Historiography
Apr 10, 2015
Jacqueline Rose - The Problem of Political Counsel in Early Modern England
Apr 07, 2015
John Henry - The Only Game in Town? Why did Early Modern Reformers of Natural Philosophy turn almost exclusively to the Occult to replace Scholasticism?
Mar 31, 2015
Sarah Hutton - Intellectual History and Women
Mar 03, 2015
David Luscombe - Otto of Freising and Historical Knowledge
Feb 03, 2015
Stewart J. Brown - China and the European Enlightenment
Dec 02, 2014
Norman Vance - Sporting St Patrick's Breastplate: war and peace in Irish Intellectual History
Nov 18, 2014
Tim Hochstrasser - Lost or Found in Translation? Varieties of Political Economy in the Enlightenment
Nov 14, 2014
J. R. Milton - The Rise of Mechanism: What and Why?
Nov 04, 2014
Rachel Foxley - The City and the Soul in James Harrington's Republicanism
Oct 21, 2014
Knud Haakonssen - Political Economy and Utopia, or the Paternalistic Enlightenment in Scotland
Oct 07, 2014
Andreas Hess - Exile from Exile: The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar
Sep 23, 2014
Aileen Fyfe - Referees, Editors, and Printers in the Making of Scientific Knowledge
May 27, 2014
Greg Claeys - Mill, Malthus and Class: Family Values and the Harm Principle
May 06, 2014
Donald Winch - The Political Economy of Empire
Feb 04, 2014
John Robertson - Sociability between Natural Law and Sacred History, 1650-1800
Jan 28, 2014
David Armitage - Every Revolution is a Civil War
May 20, 2013
Colin Kidd - The Trials of Douglas Young: Hitler, Aristophanes and the SNP
Apr 17, 2013
Mark Salber Phillips - On Historical Distance
Mar 13, 2013
Richard Whatmore - Democracy and Empire
Mar 05, 2013
Blair Worden - Two 17th Century Century Concepts of Liberty and their Legacy
Jan 23, 2013
Ian Hunter - The Mythos, Ethos, and Pathos of the Humanities
Oct 11, 2012
James Moore - Calvinists, Socinians and Arminians: Reformation and natural rights in early modern political thought
Oct 11, 2012
Manuela Albertone - Benjamin Franklin's Radical Agrarian Project
Jun 18, 2012
Keith Tribe - Karl Marx: 'Ricardian Socialist'?
May 09, 2012
Donald Winch - Arnold Toynbee's Industrial Revolution
Apr 30, 2012
Jeremy Jennings - Travels with Alexis de Tocqueville
Apr 17, 2012
Peter Mandler - The sociological imagination in mid-twentieth century Britain and America
Mar 12, 2012
Nicola Miller - Reading Rousseau in Latin America
Feb 27, 2012
Norman Vance - What gave you that idea Paddy?
Feb 06, 2012
Stefan Collini - The Very Idea of the University
Dec 05, 2011
Isabel Rivers - The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival
Nov 21, 2011
John Robertson - Sacred History and Political Thought 1650-1750
Oct 18, 2011
Donald Winch - John Maynard Keynes: Economist as Biographer and Intellectual Historian
Jun 06, 2011
J.G.A. Pocock - Anglican Enlightenment and Christian revelation: The reception of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Mar 02, 2010