# intellectual history (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover intellectual history. Page: Feed: --- ## [Decomposing Historians (with Elise Garritzen)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Decomposing-Historians-with-Elise-Garritzen-e3k1m5f) _2026-05-29 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ Should you judge a book by its cover? Victorian historians and their readers did; and through examining the decisions that went into binding, titling, annotating and prefacing historical works, we can recover some of the anxieties and labour that went into creating the image of the historian we have today. This is Elise Garritzen's task, in 'Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England: Books,… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/120690287/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-28%2Fbd6a3ca7-d66d-a610-0490-5b442ffad28b.mp3) ## [Plato’s Political Ideas: From Limited Rule to Tyranny (with Melissa Lane)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Platos-Political-Ideas-From-Limited-Rule-to-Tyranny-with-Melissa-Lane-e3h4pkd) _2026-03-30 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ Who will rule the rulers? Who will chaperone the chaperones? Who will guard the guardians? These questions are rarely associated with Plato. Usually seen as the arch-defender of the rule of the enlightened few over the ignorant many, he has not been perceived as a friend of accountable government. But is this traditional picture of Plato true? Melissa Lane, the world’s foremost interpreter of… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/117646413/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-29%2F420993800-44100-2-0418bfcd05317.m4a) ## [Sketching Characters: from Ancient Moralists to the Mansplainer (with Katie Ebner-Landy)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Sketching-Characters-from-Ancient-Moralists-to-the-Mansplainer-with-Katie-Ebner-Landy-e3et2r5) _2026-02-10 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He wrote widely on topics including metaphysics, plant-life, dizziness, odours, and juice. Most notably, though, he was the author of a colourful text detailing the vices of thirty typical characters from Athenian city life. The impact of this short book of sketches, known simply as Characters , was prodigious. In early modern Europe, it spawned an… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/115296549/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-10%2F77eb7b90-3280-6026-616c-dc716cc25c9f.mp3) ## [The Curious Case of Martin Crusius (with Richard Calis)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/The-Curious-Case-of-Martin-Crusius-with-Richard-Calis-e3c0sur) _2025-12-08 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ Martin Crusius (1526-1607) spent most of his life in the Lutheran town of Tübingen. While there, he became Europe's foremost expert on Ottoman Greece. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he held with the Greek Orthodox alms-seekers who visited his home, he painted a picture of a people unparalleled in its richness and scope. Yet he also constructed a narrative of the religious and cultural… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/112275867/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-7%2F33f05a0e-eb68-fba8-adbc-33a6161ba16b.mp3) ## [Mary Wollstonecraft: The Honest Educator (with Sylvana Tomaselli)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Mary-Wollstonecraft-The-Honest-Educator-with-Sylvana-Tomaselli-e39rafo) _2025-10-22 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ By her death in 1797 at the age of 38, Mary Wollstonecraft had produced a body of work unmatched for its honesty and critical acumen. In a society where marriage often amounted to legal prostitution, Wollstonecraft confronted the ways in which property and power distorted lives and corrupted our most essential relationships: as human beings, men and women, mothers and children. Following a… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/109995960/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-9-21%2F7b3a60c1-dee7-bfda-0dd9-d84e8b4ddf8c.mp3) ## [African-American Ideas about Race (with Mia Bay)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/African-American-Ideas-about-Race-with-Mia-Bay-e38ba3k) _2025-09-17 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ After the founding of the American Republic, African-American Intellectuals never accepted passively the narratives of racial difference maintained by the defenders of slavery and segregation. At a time when the belief in human equality was under attack from religious reactionaries and scientific innovators alike, Black thinkers succeeded in vindicating the unity of the human community as a… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/108422708/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-8-17%2Fc5c8233a-22dc-2dda-0259-8c93e1109d75.mp3) ## [Liberty as Independence (with Quentin Skinner)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Liberty-as-Independence-with-Quentin-Skinner-e35peqp) _2025-07-21 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ Sometime in the eighteenth century, a great transformation took place in the language of liberty. Since the days of the Roman Republic, to be free had meant to be independent of the arbitrary will of another. You enjoyed freedom if nobody could impose their will on you without your prior consent. You were free if you were your own master, and you were unfree to the extent that you answered to… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/105740569/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-6-20%2Fb32031c4-d16a-9f4e-5e2b-e63def0dad67.mp3) ## [Abolitionist Ideas: Battling the Slave Trade in Britain](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Abolitionist-Ideas-Battling-the-Slave-Trade-in-Britain-e33smpf) _2025-06-09 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ If you visited Britain around 1700, you’d find hardly a single advocate of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. You’d hear the institution of slavery described as a moral evil, but no one would tell you that it could be done away with if only people put their minds to it. Slavery was supported by monarchy, government, church, and public opinion in general. Yet in 1807, the trade in… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/103749871/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-5-6%2F062355f8-f46a-f278-89fc-a259e0023182.mp3) ## [Carl Schmitt: The Thoughtful Nazi (with Lars Vinx and Samuel Zeitlin)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Carl-Schmitt-The-Thoughtful-Nazi-with-Lars-Vinx-and-Samuel-Zeitlin-e31m1mr) _2025-04-27 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ Why is Carl Schmitt one of the most widely read political theorists of the twentieth century? A lifelong antisemite, a petty careerist, a Nazi ideologue who only avoided being tried at Nuremberg because he wasn’t considered important enough, Schmitt was an unlikely candidate for canonical fame. And yet from today’s perspective, few other authors present as many opportunities to think through the… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/101434523/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-3-26%2F834ac96f-b2e0-19aa-b392-a20718be2091.mp3) ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/N1TW1uJHR4lI) _2025-04-27 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Indigenous Ideas: A Global Perspective (with Saliha Belmessous)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theihpodcast/episodes/Indigenous-Ideas-A-Global-Perspective-with-Saliha-Belmessous-e2vcf3q) _2025-03-04 · Interventions · Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast_ In 1686, a French witness spoke openly of a Native American declaration of independence. ‘We have to assume’, he said, ‘that the Iroquois do not accept any master’. Claims such as this were made frequently throughout the history of European colonialism, forming a rich tapestry of indigenous ideas. Although often dismissed by historians as badly documented and politically irrelevant fictions, these… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/4533744/podcast/play/99023418/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-2-4%2Fcb046ac7-7fc4-e4f4-fdb5-3a787705b7af.mp3)