New Work In Intellectual History Institute of Intellectual History

In this episode, Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos interviews the historian of
political thought Professor Ferenc Hörcher about his new book Art and
Politics in Roger Scruton’s Conservative Philosophy (2022).

In this wide-ranging interview, Richard Bourke (King’s College Cambridge)
discusses not only Hegel’s anatomy of the modern world, but how Hegel’s
reputation changed over the twentieth century. In doing so, we discuss the
significance of not only Hegel’s thought to contemporary society, but also
the study of the history of political thought in general.

In this episode, Emilie Aebischer speaks with Prof Michael Sonenscher about
his most recent book After Kant - The Romans, the Germans and the Moderns
in the History of Political Thought (PUP, 2023).

In the aftermath of the Second World War, many prominent liberals looked
towards the future with eyes of disillusion and fear. In response they
jettisoned key progressive ideals of the Enlightenment, such as equality
and perfectibility, and formulated a defence of liberty in opposition to
communism and totalitarianism more generally. In his new book, Samuel Moyn
argues that the intellectual architects of Cold War liberalism truncated
the liberal tradition and thereby left a disastrous legacy, leaving
liberals unable to address the problems that face us today.

In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam) about his
recently published book Europe against Revolution - Conservatism,
Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past (OUP, 2023). In this book,
Matthijs explores what counter-revolutionary thinkers in the decades around
1800 thought about Europe. Many of his conclusions are surprising, with
critics of the French Revolution often being proponents of cultural and
religious diversity, cosmopolitanism and political moderation that they
viewed as unique to Europe. They believed themselves to be the true heirs
of the European Enlightenment, rather than the radical materialist atheists
who had taken over France.

In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora
Vargas about their new book Welfare for Markets - A Global History of Basic
Income (UCP, 2023). In their book, Jäger and Vargas trace the history of
basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following
periods of economic and political crisis to its modern popularity among
‘techno-populists’ in Silicon Valley. They describe how the idea gained
traction in the United States and Europe in the 1960s as a market-friendly
alternative to the postwar welfare state and how interest in the policy has
grown in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and again after the COVID-19
crisis.