Conversations with scholars on recent books in Political Theory and Social and Political Philosophy. This podcast is not affiliated with the University of Houston, and no opinions expressed on this podcast are that of the University of Houston. Image: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), After a model by Jean Antoine Houdon (French, Versailles 1741–1828 Paris), in the public domain courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A conversation with Alan S. Kahan about his recent book, "Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Jason Blakely about his recent book "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing).
A conversation with Ines Valdez about her recent book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Justin Dyer about his recent book, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding," from Cambridge University Press.
A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Kristi Sweet on her recent book "Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: the Territory of the Third Critique" (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Kevin J. Elliott about his recent book, "Democracy for Busy People" (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Christopher Yeomans about his recent book, "The Politics of German Idealism" (Oxford UP)
A conversation with Melvin Rogers about his recent book "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African-American Political Thought" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Constantine Vassiliou about his recent book "Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Smith, Hume, and Ferguson" (Edinburgh University Press).
A conversation with Stefan Eich about his recent book The Currency of Politics: the Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP).
A conversation with John Scott about his recent book, "Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man" (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Yascha Mounk about his new book, "The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time" (Penguin Random House).
A conversation with Haig Patapan about his recent book, A Dangerous Passion: Leadership and the Question of Honor (SUNY Press).
A conversation with Philip Pettit about his new book "The State" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Melissa Lane about her new book "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Donovan Miyasaki about his recent two-volume project, Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy (Palgrave) and Politics after Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left (Palgrave).
A conversation with David James about his recent book "Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy" (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Ewa Atanassow about her recent book, "Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization" (Princeton UP).
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