Faculti Podcast
1) Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato - Gregory Fried
Gregory Fried provides a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life he calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation w...Show More
2) Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability
Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of l...Show More
3) Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes
When Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, died in his villa in Cannes in May 1868 at the age of eighty-nine, he was well known for his many achievements in the fields of politics, law and ed...Show More
4) Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?
Paul James discusses the significance of engaged globalization theory and critical reflexivity and the development of an integrated method of analysis.
5) British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922
Anthony Best discusses the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only ...Show More
6) Can the Liberal Order be Sustained? Nations, Network Effects, and the Erosion of Global Institutions
A growing retreat from multilateralism is threatening to upend the institutions that underpin the liberal international order. Bryan H. Druzin applies network theory to this crisis in global governanc...Show More
7) Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War
Jeremy Crang traces the wartime history of the WAAF, ATS and WRNS and the integration of women into the British armed forces.
8) Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Felipe Fe...Show More
9) Making a Modern U.S. West
Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders...Show More
10) The Meaning of 'Life' in Early Modern Philosophy
Deborah Brown suggests René Descartes philosophy recognises irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own distinctive modes of explanation