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Lectures in Intellectual History

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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Colin Kidd - The Trials of Douglas Young: Hitler, Aristophanes and the SNP

Colin Kidd - The Trials of Douglas Young: Hitler, Aristophanes and the SNP

2013 sees the centenary of the birth of Douglas Young, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century Scottish... Read more

17 Apr 2013

1hr 2mins

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Michael Sonenscher - Hobbes, Rousseau and Democratic Politics

Michael Sonenscher - Hobbes, Rousseau and Democratic Politics

The political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is typically identified with two aspects of that of Thomas Hobbes. The fi... Read more

29 Nov 2016

49mins

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Stefan Collini - The Very Idea of the University

Stefan Collini - The Very Idea of the University

Stefan Collini offers a few brief reflections on the history and current state of the institution we call the university... Read more

5 Dec 2011

49mins

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John Robertson - Sacred History and Political Thought 1650-1750

John Robertson - Sacred History and Political Thought 1650-1750

How was the Hobbesian proposition - that man was not naturally sociable - answered by recourse to sacred history, the ac... Read more

18 Oct 2011

1hr 4mins

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Andreas Hess - Exile from Exile: The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar

Andreas Hess - Exile from Exile: The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar

How does the concept of exile permeate the life and work of the formative political thinker Judith N. Shklar? In this ta... Read more

23 Sep 2014

53mins

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Nathan Alexander - The Meanings of "Racism": Towards a history of the concept

Nathan Alexander - The Meanings of "Racism": Towards a history of the concept

Dr Nathan Alexander (Erfurt) delivered this talk at the University of St Andrews on February 2, 2019.

7 Dec 2019

59mins

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Richard Whatmore - The End of Enlightenment: A synopsis of the 2019 Carlyle Lectures

Richard Whatmore - The End of Enlightenment: A synopsis of the 2019 Carlyle Lectures

Richard Whatmore (St Andrews) delivered this talk at the University of St Andrews on April 3, 2019. The talk was based o... Read more

19 Dec 2019

49mins

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Gareth Stedman Jones - Karl Marx and the Emergence of Social Democracy

Gareth Stedman Jones - Karl Marx and the Emergence of Social Democracy

The years between 1864 and 1867 were among the most fulfilling of Marx’s life. Not only were these the years in which he... Read more

19 Sep 2017

56mins

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David Armitage - The Dark Side of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: Civilisation and Civil War

David Armitage - The Dark Side of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: Civilisation and Civil War

Modern cosmopolitanism traces its routes back to the Enlightenment. In its individual and collectivist strains, it has b... Read more

14 Mar 2018

47mins

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Jeremy Jennings - Travels with Alexis de Tocqueville

Jeremy Jennings - Travels with Alexis de Tocqueville

Demoracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville is possibly the most famous book about America, but what did Tocqueville s... Read more

17 Apr 2012

1hr 2mins

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James Harris - A New Approach to the Intellectual Biography of David Hume

James Harris - A New Approach to the Intellectual Biography of David Hume

What kind of narrative order can be imposed on the intellectual development of David Hume, a man demonstrably interested... Read more

14 Apr 2015

43mins

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Kleanthis Mantzouranis - Aristotle on the Ethics of Wealth

Kleanthis Mantzouranis - Aristotle on the Ethics of Wealth

Aristotle’s conception of wealth begins with the distinction he makes between two spheres of wealth: its possession (acq... Read more

1 Nov 2016

44mins

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Dimitris Kastritsis - The Alexander Romance and the Birth of the Ottoman Empire

Dimitris Kastritsis - The Alexander Romance and the Birth of the Ottoman Empire

During the period that saw the creation of the classical Ottoman Empire, the Alexander of pseudo-Callisthenes functioned... Read more

26 Jan 2016

55mins

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Katrina Forrester - The Origins of Contemporary Liberal Theory Revisited

Katrina Forrester - The Origins of Contemporary Liberal Theory Revisited

After the Second World War, political philosophy was dead. This changed in 1971 when John Rawls published his Theory of ... Read more

23 Jan 2017

45mins

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Philip Schofield - Jeremy Bentham on Truth and Utility

Philip Schofield - Jeremy Bentham on Truth and Utility

Jeremy Bentham has two very strong commitments in his thought: one is to the principle of utility, or the greatest happi... Read more

5 May 2015

55mins

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Michael Bentley - Intellectual History and the Study of Historiography

Michael Bentley - Intellectual History and the Study of Historiography

What is the nature of the relationship between intellectual history and the study of historiography? Where is it going? ... Read more

10 Apr 2015

56mins

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Alex Douglas - Spinoza and Religion

Alex Douglas - Spinoza and Religion

Dr Alex Douglas is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews.

14 Nov 2019

45mins

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Keith Tribe - Utilitarianism, the Moral Sciences, and Political Economy: Mill-Grote-Sidgwick

Keith Tribe - Utilitarianism, the Moral Sciences, and Political Economy: Mill-Grote-Sidgwick

Henry Sidgwick was already something of an enigma in Cambridge less than six years after his death, and recent interest ... Read more

11 May 2015

1hr 1min

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Paul Wood - The Rise and Fall of the Common Sense 'School' of Philosophy

Paul Wood - The Rise and Fall of the Common Sense 'School' of Philosophy

The emergence of a Scottish 'school' of common sense philosophy has not yet been given the historical attention it deser... Read more

7 Nov 2019

55mins

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Lynette Mitchell - Monarchs in democracy

Lynette Mitchell - Monarchs in democracy

The hallmark of Athenian democracy was equality. From at least the beginning of the 5th century, Athens was a place wher... Read more

17 Oct 2017

1hr

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