As several scholars, like Bernard Bailyn, Caroline Robbins, and Gordon Wood, have reminded us, a number of ideological influences have played a significant role in the creation of the American republic. Among them were two opposing concepts that were at the center of the Founders’ debate over the meaning of republicanism in America. One was […]
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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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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 […]
