Eric MacGilvray (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy. His research and teaching interests center in modern and contemporary political thought, with an emphasis on liberal, republican, and democratic theory and the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is the author of Liberal Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Invention of Market Freedom (Cambridge University Press, […]
The Politics of Beauty: Author Interview with Susan Shell
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 […]
A Nation So Conceived: Author Interview with Michael Zuckert
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 […]
