• 407. Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration

    Posted on 6 November 2022

    An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Locke and Leibniz.

    Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London.

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  • 110. Politics with Bloodshed: the Black Panthers

    Posted on 30 October 2022

    The philosophical underpinnings of a “vanguard of revolution” led by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver: the Black Panther Party.

    3 comments
  • 406. Believe at Your Own Risk: Toleration in France

    Posted on 23 October 2022

    Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian Castellio.

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  • 109. Say It Loud: Black Power

    Posted on 16 October 2022

    How the controversial slogan “black power,” used by activists like H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael (pictured), relates to ideas of militancy, separatism, and the power of language.

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  • 405. Divide and Conquer: the Spread of Ramism

    Posted on 9 October 2022

    The methods of Peter Ramus sweep across Europe, winning adherents and facing stiff opposition in equal measure.

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  • 108. Or Does It Explode? Lorraine Hansberry

    Posted on 2 October 2022

    The author of the famous play, A Raisin in the Sun, explores questions of violence, sexuality, and more during her too brief life. 

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  • 404. Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus

    Posted on 25 September 2022

    A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy, not to mention some juicy academic quarrels in Paris.

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  • 107. Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon

    Posted on 18 September 2022

    We're joined by a leading Fanon expert to talk about a range of themes in his work: Negritude, psychiatry, and violence.

    1 comments
  • 403. Make It Simple: Peter Ramus

    Posted on 11 September 2022

    Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.

    2 comments
  • 106. Combat Literature: Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth

    Posted on 4 September 2022

    Fanon’s incendiary final work explores the violent process of decolonization.

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