Posted on 29 January 2023
The sources and scope of the skepticism of Montaigne, Charron (pictured), and Sanches.
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Posted on 22 January 2023
Two scholars of the same name join us to shed further light on freedom fighter and political theorist Amílcar Cabral.
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Posted on 15 January 2023
In his Essays Montaigne uses wit, insight, and humanist training to tackle his favorite subject: Montaigne.
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Posted on 8 January 2023
Amílcar Cabral, leader of a revolution against colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, rethinks culture and Marxist theory as bases for his struggle.
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Posted on 1 January 2023
Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Guillaume du Vair grapple with history and the events of their own day.
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Posted on 25 December 2022
The first leader of independent Tanzania grounds his socialist ideas in traditional African values.
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Posted on 18 December 2022
A chat with Ann Blair about the "Theater of Nature" by Jean Bodin, and other encyclopedic works of natural philosophy. (Pictured: Prof Blair holding the annotated copy of Bodin's Theatrum she describes in the episode.)
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Posted on 11 December 2022
After Albert Cleage and James Cone propose a liberatory interpretation of Christianity, William R. Jones wonders whether God is a white racist. We also follow Black Theology among “Womanist” authors and in South Africa.
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Posted on 4 December 2022
The polymath Jean Bodin produces a pioneering theory of political sovereignty along the way to defending the absolute power of the French king.
3 commentsI am pleased to say that the great Muslim philosopher and theologian Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is now covered on the Stanford Enyclopedia of Philosophy! I did the entry together with Fedor Benevich of Edinburgh University.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-din-al-razi/
He was covered here on the podcast too, in this episode:
A lot of these seem to be coming along at the moment: here's a second appearance for me on the series Blogging Theology devoted to the ancient and Islamic debate over the Eternity of the Universe. It's a one hour conversation on video with the host, Paul Williams.
Here's another video podcast appearance! I was interviewed for "Love and its Discontents" on the topic of love in Greek philosophy, and this has just appeared today:
Happy New Year! I thought I might take this chance to share what you can expect here on the podcast in the coming year.
Since we are moving towards the end of our coverage of the Renaissance and Reformation in France, I thought I would divulge plans for the miniseries Britain in the same period (15-16th centuries). Comments and suggestions more than welcome! These episodes will kick off on March 12, 2023, if all goes according to plan. Note: interviews are not included in this list, only scripted episodes,
You can hear me speak about my new book "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" in this new episode of the New Books in Medieval History podcast.
This month my new book, Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, has appeared with Notre Dame University Press! Please consider getting a copy and if you do, maybe give it a review on Amazon!
I was just interviewed for the monthly online publication "Medieval Philosophy Today" by my own PhD student, the brilliant Sarah Virgi! You can check it out here: https://ipmtoday.com/philcomm_peter_adamson_09_2022/
Listeners starved for podcast content during our August break will be glad to know that the wait is almost over: September 4 we relaunch with the next episode of the Africana Philosophy podcast. Here is what is coming up between now and the end of the year, if all goes well!
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Posted on 5 February 2023
The career and ideas of Nelson Mandela up to the time of his imprisonment, in the context of the founding of the African National Congress.
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