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  1. Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato - Gregory Fried

    08/31/2024

    Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato - Gregory Fried

    Gregory Fried provides a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life he calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons.

    13 min
  2. Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability

    05/25/2023

    Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability

    Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Robin Douglass offers an account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher.

    18 min
  3. Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes

    11/26/2022

    Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes

    When Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, died in his villa in Cannes in May 1868 at the age of eighty-nine, he was well known for his many achievements in the fields of politics, law and education, and also as the man who put the Mediterranean town Cannes on the map. Rosemary Ashton discusses the origin of Cannes as a resort to a chance visit in 1834 by Lord Brougham.

    19 min
  4. Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?

    10/09/2022

    Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?

    Paul James discusses the significance of engaged globalization theory and critical reflexivity and the development of an integrated method of analysis.

    15 min
  5. British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922

    08/18/2022

    British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922

    Anthony Best discusses the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation.

    15 min
  6. Can the Liberal Order be Sustained? Nations, Network Effects, and the Erosion of Global Institutions

    07/31/2022

    Can the Liberal Order be Sustained? Nations, Network Effects, and the Erosion of Global Institutions

    A growing retreat from multilateralism is threatening to upend the institutions that underpin the liberal international order. Bryan H. Druzin applies network theory to this crisis in global governance, arguing that policymakers can strengthen these institutions by leveraging network effect pressures.

    15 min
  7. Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War

    06/01/2022

    Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War

    Jeremy Crang traces the wartime history of the WAAF, ATS and WRNS and the integration of women into the British armed forces.

    9 min
  8. Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

    05/28/2022

    Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

    For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Felipe Fernández-Armesto untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero.

    16 min
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    2019 - 2024
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