Lectures in Intellectual History

Jan 15 2025 119 ep. 51 mins 6.4k

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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.

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Sophie Scott-Brown (University of St Andrews; Remarque Institute, New York) - "British Activist-Intellectuals and the Unexpected Revival of Radical Democracy in the (Long) 1950s"

Jan 15 2025 55 mins

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 25 September 2024.

Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) - "Creating an Ancien Regime: The Union of 1800 as a Counter Revolutionary Act"

Dec 10 2024 35 mins

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 18 September 2024.

Tom Pye (UCL) - "The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain"

Oct 15 2024 48 mins

This lecture was delivered on 3 April 2024 at the University of St Andrews.

Norman Vance - "Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbes to Hayek and Beyond"

May 15 2024 41 mins

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 13 March 2024.

Christopher de Bellaigue - "Suleyman the Magnificent and the 16th-century race for empire"

Apr 03 2024 44 mins

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 31 January 2024.

Ariane Fichtl - “Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation”

Mar 21 2024 35 mins

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 24 January 2024.

Tim Stuart-Buttle - "Behind the Curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition"

Mar 07 2024 50 mins

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 17 January 2024.

Richard Whatmore - "The End of Enlightenment (book launch)"

Dec 27 2023 36 mins

This talk was given at Toppings in St Andrews on December 7, 2023.

Jesse Norman - "Ambition, revenge, truth, fiction - The Winding Stair"

Dec 22 2023 64 mins

The barely known story of the 30-year rivalry between Francis Bacon and Edward Coke is a fascinating case study in late-Elizabethan-Jacobean court politics. But it can also be a means by which to explore the limits of historical truth, and the uses of fiction. Jesse Norman is a Visiting Research Fellow at St Andrews, a Fellow of All Souls and a Member of Parliament (UK). This lectu

Vassilios Paipais - "Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology"

Dec 20 2023 32 mins

This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on 15 November 2023.