Synesis: History of Ideas Podcast

Synesis History of Ideas Podcast
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Interviews on the History of Ideas in Philosophy, Political Economy, Science and Theology!

Episodes

  1. FEB 20

    Episode #6 w/ Thomas Charrayre - Conservative Philosophy Before Conservatism

    In today's episode, Mateus talks with Thomas Charrayre, a PhD candidate in political theory at Sciences Po Paris. His dissertation examines Cold War conservatism through the works of Raymond Aron, Michael Oakeshott, and Leo Strauss, exploring how they rethought democracy, authority, and the liberal tradition in the shadow of totalitarianism. Without proclaiming to be "conservatives," nor believing they were part of a conservative "movement," these thinkers inaugurated a new philosophical category: Conservative Philosophy.

    1h 10m

  2. JAN 6

    Episode #5 w/ Otto Lehto: Evolutionary Liberalism: Nature, Justice, and Social Change

    Today, Mateus and João start a new series within Synesis, where young scholars may share their research. We welcome Otto Lehto, a Research Fellow at NYU Center for Bioethics & Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU School of Law's Classical Liberal Institute. Through four articles ("Power to the Powerless: Evolutionary Liberalism and Social Emancipation"; "Evolution, Complexity and Intelligence: The Methodological Foundations of Evolutionary Liberalism"; "When Less is More: In Defence of Narrow, Humean Justice"; and "Foucault, Neoliberalism and Basic Income"), Otto reassesses the legacy of thinkers like David Hume, Herbert Spencer, Henry George, and F.A. Hayek to the future of a naturalist, Enlightenment-inspired conception of Evolutionary Liberalism, offering an intriguing and powerful defence of Classical Liberalism's main principles as a potentially radical inspiration for social change.

    1h 42m

  3. 11/08/2025

    Episode #4 w/ Grant Kaplan (part 1): Beyond the Faith/Reason Divide

    In this episode André interviews catholic theologian Grant Klapan about his latest book "Faith and Reason through Christian History: A Theological Essay" (The Catholic University of America Press, 2022) and the relationship between faith and reason as understood in modern catholicism and its German roots, and the way the Magisterium of the Catholic Church changed its attitude toward modern philosophies and the relationship between nature and grace.

    1h 17m

  4. 09/26/2025

    Episode #3 w/ Matthew McManus (part 1): Post-Modern Conservatism in the age of commodified selfhood.

    Mateus, João and Mitch (guest interviewer) talk with Matthew McManus (Spelman College) about his "The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson" (Zer0 Books, 2020). In it, we address the transformations conservative and reactionary ideologies have suffered in the digital age, our post-modern condition, and the revolutionary character of Capitalism.

    1h 41m

  5. 09/01/2025

    Episode #2 w/ David Lay Williams (part 1): Inequality, "The Greatest of All Plagues"

    Mateus and João interview Professor David Lay Williams from DePaul University (USA) to talk about his book, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton University Press, 2024). Drawing from great thinkers of the Western Canon, David shows how inequality has always been considered a keen political problem in the West - until the rise of Capitalism and, with it, the hopes that an affluent world would cope with being unequal.

    1h 53m

  6. 08/05/2025

    Episode #1 w/ Jonathan Rose (part 1): Books from Below and the power of liberal education

    In this interview, Mateus interviews Jonathan Rose, renowned Historian, Professor of History, Director of the Graduate Program in Book History at Drew University, and the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. We discuss his book, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Yale University Press (2021, 3ed), the importance of Liberal Education for the emancipation of those that come from below, and the dangers of the current decline in reading rates!

    1h 18m
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Interviews on the History of Ideas in Philosophy, Political Economy, Science and Theology!

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  • Creator
    Synesis History of Ideas Podcast
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    6
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