The Political Theory Review: Recent Episodes
Jeffrey Church
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 Haig Patapan about his recent book, A Dangerous Passion: Leadership and the Question of Honor (SUNY Press).
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).
A conversation with Thomas Pangle about his recent book "The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker" (Cornell UP).
A conversation with Laurence Cooper about his recent book, "Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau's Philosophic Life" (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Jeanne Morefield about her recent book, "Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory" (Rowman & Littlefield).
A conversation with Jeffrey Church about his recent book, "Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Ben Jones about his recent book, "Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope" (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings about her recent book, "Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality" (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Lee Ward about his recent book, "Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests" (Edinburgh UP).
A conversation with Mary Keys about her recent book "Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God" (Cambridge UP)
A conversation with Guido Parietti about his recent book "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford University Press).
A conversation with Rob Goodman about his recent book Words on Fire: On Eloquence and Its Conditions (Cambridge University Press).
A conversation with Terry Pinkard about his recent book, "Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Sartre's Appropriation of Hegel and Marx" (U of Chicago Press 2022).
A conversation with Ann Ward about her recent book The Socratic Individual: Philosophy, Faith, and Freedom in a Democratic Age (Lexington Books).
A conversation with Michael Sandel about his recent book The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good? (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
A conversation with Joshua Cherniss about his recent book "Liberalism in Dark Times: the Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Michael Hawley about his recent book Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero's Liberal Legacy (Oxford UP).
Several short conversations with scholars on the process of writing a book in Political Theory. This is a special episode, marking the 100th episode of this podcast. Appearing on this episode are:
Michael Zuckert (Notre Dame)
Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Haverford)
Elizabeth Markovits (Mount Holyoke)
Catherine Zuckert (Notre Dame)
Ian Shapiro (Yale)
Nancy Rosenblum (Harvard)
K. Anthony Appiah (NYU)
A conversation with Arthur Ripstein about his recent book "Kant and the Law of War" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Rita Koganzon about her recent book "Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood & Education in Early Modern Thought," from Oxford University Press.
A conversation with Lucia Rafanelli about her recent book "Promoting Justice Across Borders: the Ethics of Reform Intervention" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Colin Bird about his recent book "Human Dignity and Political Criticism" (Cambridge University Press).
A conversation with Paul Franco about his recent book, "Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human" (U Chicago Press).
A conversation with Chiara Cordelli about her recent book, "The Privatized State" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Aaron Herold about his recent book The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Enlightenment Theology (U Penn Press).
A conversation with Lorna Bracewell about her recent book "Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era" (U of Minnesota Press).
A conversation with Mauro Caraccioli about his recent book "Writing the New World: the Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (University of Florida Press).
A conversation with Adriana Alfaro about her recent book "The Belief in Intuition: Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler" (U Penn Press).
A conversation with Michelle Schwarze about her recent book "Recognizing Resentment: Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought" (Cambridge University Press).
A conversation with Sinja Graf about her recent book, "The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Dean Moyar about his recent book, Hegel's Value: Justice as the Living Good (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Jason Frank about his recent book "The Democratic Sublime: on Aesthetics and Popular Assembly" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Benjamin Storey about his co-authored book, Why We are Restless: on the Modern Quest for Contentment (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Manu Samnotra about his recent book Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action (Lexington Press)
A conversation with Sara Rushing about her recent book The Virtues of Vulnerability (Oxford UP)
A conversation with Kevin Vallier about his recent book "Trust in a Polarized Age" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Sandra Field about her recent book Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Steven Smith about his recent book "Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes" (Yale UP).
A conversation with Adom Getachew about her recent book "Worldmaking after Empire: the Rise and Fall of Self-Determination" (Princeton UP)
A conversation with John Scott about his recent book "Rousseau's Reader: Strategies of Persuasion and Education" (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Helene Landemore about her recent book Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP)
A conversation with Lorraine Pangle about her recent book "Reason and Character: the Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy" (U Chicago Press).
A conversation with Yvonne Chiu about her recent book "Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare" (Columbia UP).
A conversation with Kris Sealey about her recent book "Creolizing the Nation" (Northwestern University Press).
A conversation with Joel Schlosser about his recent book Herodotus in the Anthropocene (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Kevin Duong about his recent book The Virtues of Violence (Oxford UP, 2020).
A conversation with Jason Blakely about his recent book "We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Cristina Lafont about her recent book Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Ryan Patrick Hanley about his recent book The Political Philosophy of Fenelon (Oxford UP) and his recent translation of Fenelon's Moral and Political Writings (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Paulina Ochoa Espejo about her recent book "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Alin Fumurescu about his 2019 book Compromise and the American Founding: the Quest for the People's Two Bodies (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Jennie Ikuta about her recent book, Contesting Conformity: Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Samuel Fleischacker about his recent book "Being Me Being You: Adam Smith & Empathy" (U Chicago Press).
A conversation with Paul Ludwig about his recent book, Rediscovering Political Friendship: Aristotle's Theory and Modern Identity, Community, and Equality (Cambridge University Press).
A conversation with Nomi Claire Lazar about her recent book Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time (Yale University Press). Photo credit: Tom White
A conversation with Jeremy Fortier about his recent book, The Challenge of Nietzsche: How to Approach his Thought (U Chicago Press).
A conversation with Ryan Hanley about his recent book Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Tongdong Bai about his new book, Against Political Equality: the Confucian Case (Princeton University Press).
A conversation with Andrew Huddleston about his recent book, Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Joshua Foa Dienstag about his recent book Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity (Oxford UP 2020).
A conversation with Yuval Levin about his recent book A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to our Institutions can Revive the American Dream (Basic Books).
A conversation with Anna Stilz about her recent book Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Andrew March about his recent book, The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (Harvard UP).
A conversation with Nadia Urbinati about her recent book Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press).
A conversation with Jeremy Bailey about his recent book The Idea of Presidential Representation: An Intellectual and Political History (Kansas).
A conversation with Lisa Wedeen about her recent book Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (U Chicago P).
A conversation with Kevin Vallier about his recent book Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society (Oxford UP).
A conversation about the nature of Political Theory, some major issues and debates, relationship to other fields, and the status and worth of the canon. Featuring Jeanne Morefield (University of Birmingham) and Ryan Hanley (Boston College).
A conversation with Inder Marwah about his recent book, Liberalism, Diversity, and Domination: Kant, Mill, and the Government of Difference (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Todd May about his recent book A Decent Life: Morality for the Rest of Us (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Wendy Brown about her recent book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Columbia UP).
A conversation with Michael Walzer about his recent book In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Yale University Press).
A conversation with James Fishkin about his recent book, Democracy When the People Are Thinking (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Ines Valdez about her recent book, "Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft" (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Christopher Beem about his recent book Democratic Humility: Reinhold Niebuhr, Neuroscience, and America's Political Crisis (Lexington Press).
A conversation with Dilek Huseyinzadegan about her recent book, Kant's Nonideal Theory of Politics (Northwestern UP).
A conversation with Abraham Singer about his recent book The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Murad Idris about his recent book, War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Sheri Berman about her recent book Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Age (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Sarah Conly about her recent book Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labor, and the Role of Organizations in Society (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Sarah Song about her recent book Immigration and Democracy (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Samuel Scheffler about his recent book Why Worry About Future Generations? (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Demetra Kasimis about her recent book The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy (Cambridge University Press).
A conversation with Charles Griswold about his recent book Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter (Routledge).
A conversation with John McCormick about his recent book, Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics (Princeton UP).
A conversation with William Galston about his recent book, Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy (Yale University Press).
A conversation with Seyla Benhabib about her recent book Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Devin Stauffer about his recent book, Hobbes's Kingdom of Light (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Bonnie Honig about her recent book Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham UP).
A conversation with Christian Miller about his recent book, The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (Oxford UP)
A conversation with Elizabeth Markovits about her recent book Future Freedoms: Intergenerational Justice, Democratic Theory, and Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy (Routledge 2018).
A conversation with Shilo Brooks about his book Nietzsche's Culture War: The Unity of the Untimely Meditations (Palgrave) and my forthcoming book, Nietzsche's Unfashionable Observations: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh UP).
A conversation with Ronald Beiner about his recent book Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (U Penn Press).
A conversation with Paul Stern about his recent book, Dante's Philosophical Life: Politics and Human Wisdom in Purgatorio (Penn).
A conversation with Tamler Sommers about his recent book, Why Honor Matters (Basic Books).
A conversation with David James about his recent book, Fichte's Republic: Idealism, History, and Nationalism, from Cambridge University Press.
A conversation with Jennifer Pitts about her recent book Boundaries of the International (Harvard UP).
A conversation with Stephen White about his recent book, A Democratic Bearing (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Daniel Kapust about his recent book, Flattery and the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art (Cambridge).
A conversation with Alan Patten about his recent book, Equal Recognition: the Moral Foundations of Minority Rights (Princeton)
A conversation with William Curtis about his recent book, Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue.
A conversation with Nicholas Tampio about his book, Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy
A conversation with Michael Gillespie about his recent book, Nietzsche's Final Teaching (Chicago UP).
A conversation with Katrin Flikschuh about her recent book, What is Orientation in Global Thinking?
A conversation with Terry Pinkard about his new book, Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice.
A conversation with Vickie Sullivan about her recent book, Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe.
A conversation with Paul Katsafanas about his recent book, The Nietzschean Self: Moral Psychology, Agency, and the Unconscious
A conversation with Robert Taylor about his recent book, Exit Left: Markets and Mobility in Republican Thought.
A conversation with Mark Alznauer about his recent book, Hegel's Theory of Responsibility.
A conversation with Peter Steinberger about his recent book, The Politics of Objectivity.
A conversation with John Scott about his book The Routledge Guidebook to Machiavelli's The Prince