Susan Shell is Professor of Political Science at the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. Shell joins the podcast to discuss her new book, The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant’s Critique of Taste, from Cambridge University Press. Listen below as Shell discusses the way that Kant’s “critical treatment of aesthetic […]
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Michael Zuckert is the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Zuckert joins the podcast to discuss his new book, A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty, from the University Press of Kansas. The book considers a “coherent center to Lincoln’s political ideology” of democratic […]
Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life: Author Interview with Jeffrey Church
Jeffrey Church is a political theorist and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. Church joins this episode of the Political Theory Review Podcast to discuss his new Oxford University Press book, Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life. The book is the “first extended treatment of Immanuel Kant’s understanding of […]
Apocalypse without God: Author Interview with Ben Jones
Ben Jones is the Assistant Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Research Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. On this episode of Political Theory Review, Jones discusses his new Cambridge University Press book, Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope. The book argues that “we can gain […]
Burke and Adams: Tradition vs. Constitutionalism
In his 1953 classic The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk stresses what he sees as the remarkable similarity in political thinking between Edmund Burke, the “Father of Western Conservatism,” and John Adams, often referred to as the first great American conservative. Kirk asserts that “it is difficult to draw any clear line of demarcation” between the […]
