Institute of Intellectual History
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Founded in 2013, the Institute of Intellectual History is a hub for everyone interested in intellectual history at both the University of St Andrews and beyond. www.intellectualhistory.net
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Roots and Branches Podcast I Why History Matters — Institute of Intellectual History
Discover how ideas shape our world with the Roots and Branches podcast from the University of St Andrews. Monthly episodes trace intellectual history from its roots to real-world impact—listen, learn ...
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Join us as we uncover why history matters and how it continues to influence the present and future. www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...
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Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality.
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
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With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
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October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality.
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
Losing Control of Tocqueville: J. P. Mayer and the Genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/core/journal...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Losing Control of Tocqueville: J. P. Mayer and the Genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/core/journal...
New episode: Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond Geuss www.intellectualhistory.net/german-ih-li...
Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond Geuss — Institute of Intellectual History
In this episode, we interview Emeritus Professor Raymond Geuss (FBA) on the relationship between Genealogy and Critique. We discuss the relationship between Adorno, Heidegger and Nietzsche, the danger...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
New episode: Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond Geuss www.intellectualhistory.net/german-ih-li...
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🌳🎧 Start your October right - with Quentin Skinner on @rbpodcast.bsky.social. Quentin discusses his view on liberty, how freedom relates to democracy, and which limits there are to liberty in representative government.
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Quentin Skinner, is republican liberty fit for the 21st century?
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October 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
🌳🎧 Start your October right - with Quentin Skinner on @rbpodcast.bsky.social. Quentin discusses his view on liberty, how freedom relates to democracy, and which limits there are to liberty in representative government.
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Join us tomorrow at 5.15 pm.
Jesse Norman MP - A Discussion of ‘Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right’ (by Quinn Slobodian), with James Harris and Richard Whatmore
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Jesse Norman MP - A Discussion of ‘Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right’ (by Quinn Slobodian), with James Harris and Richard Whatmore
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September 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Join us tomorrow at 5.15 pm.
Jesse Norman MP - A Discussion of ‘Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right’ (by Quinn Slobodian), with James Harris and Richard Whatmore
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Jesse Norman MP - A Discussion of ‘Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right’ (by Quinn Slobodian), with James Harris and Richard Whatmore
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What role did transportation costs play in Adam Smith's defence of free trade? And what effect would free trade have on agriculture? Find out about this and much more in this new article (open access) by Lasse S. Andersen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Adam Smith and Agriculture: The Political Economy of the ‘Unnatural and Retrograde’ Order Revisited
This paper provides a reinterpretation of Adam Smith's distinction between the natural and the unnatural and retrograde order of progress. In doing so, the paper explores Smith's idea of the divisi...
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September 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What role did transportation costs play in Adam Smith's defence of free trade? And what effect would free trade have on agriculture? Find out about this and much more in this new article (open access) by Lasse S. Andersen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Really enjoyed discussing Erased with Selma Sondern on the "Roots and Branches" podcast @standrewsiih.bsky.social.
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Patricia Owens, how do we prevent historical erasure?
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September 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Really enjoyed discussing Erased with Selma Sondern on the "Roots and Branches" podcast @standrewsiih.bsky.social.
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Stefan Collini, FBA. Lecture two: Careers.
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature open.substack.com/pub/standrew...
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature open.substack.com/pub/standrew...
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Lecture 2: Careers
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July 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Stefan Collini, FBA. Lecture two: Careers.
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature open.substack.com/pub/standrew...
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature open.substack.com/pub/standrew...
New article by Cailean Gallagher: The Jacobite groundwork of James Steuart’s Political Economy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Jacobite Groundwork of James Steuart’s Political Economy | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
The Jacobite Groundwork of James Steuart’s Political Economy
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July 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New article by Cailean Gallagher: The Jacobite groundwork of James Steuart’s Political Economy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Stefan Collini, FBA - Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature. (The Donald Winch Lecture in Intellectual History, 2022). open.substack.com/pub/standrew...
Stefan Collini - Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Lecture 1: Justifications
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July 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Stefan Collini, FBA - Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature. (The Donald Winch Lecture in Intellectual History, 2022). open.substack.com/pub/standrew...
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The @standrewsiih.bsky.social has launched a fantastic new podcast! It's called Roots and Branches and the first episode with Richard Whatmore is already out! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/1...
#1 Richard Whatmore, can Intellectual History save liberty?
Podcast Episode · Roots and Branches · 01/07/2025 · 1 sec
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July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The @standrewsiih.bsky.social has launched a fantastic new podcast! It's called Roots and Branches and the first episode with Richard Whatmore is already out! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/1...
Join us as we uncover why history matters and how it continues to influence the present and future. www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...
Roots and Branches Podcast I Why History Matters — Institute of Intellectual History
Discover how ideas shape our world with the Roots and Branches podcast from the University of St Andrews. Monthly episodes trace intellectual history from its roots to real-world impact—listen, learn ...
www.intellectualhistory.net
June 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Join us as we uncover why history matters and how it continues to influence the present and future. www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...
Great news for T. R. Malthus scholars! An archive with the papers of the late historian John Pullen (1933 - 2022) has been established at the Intellectual History Archive - with more material being added week by week. Explore the archive here: rb.gy/clx2s2
Major Pieces and Unpublished Papers · Intellectual History Archive
The Intellectual History Archive is a digital repository of papers from eminent intellectual historians. It is curated by the Institute of Intellectual History and hosted by the University of St Andre...
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May 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great news for T. R. Malthus scholars! An archive with the papers of the late historian John Pullen (1933 - 2022) has been established at the Intellectual History Archive - with more material being added week by week. Explore the archive here: rb.gy/clx2s2
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📢 Join us for the 2025 Winch Lectures at St Andrews by Melissa Lane (Princeton) on "Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau through Ancient Lawgivers"
📅 12–14 May 📍School V & Old Class Library 🍷 Reception Mon 12 May
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📅 12–14 May 📍School V & Old Class Library 🍷 Reception Mon 12 May
@standrewshist.bsky.social @saims.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📢 Join us for the 2025 Winch Lectures at St Andrews by Melissa Lane (Princeton) on "Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau through Ancient Lawgivers"
📅 12–14 May 📍School V & Old Class Library 🍷 Reception Mon 12 May
@standrewshist.bsky.social @saims.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social
📅 12–14 May 📍School V & Old Class Library 🍷 Reception Mon 12 May
@standrewshist.bsky.social @saims.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social
Today at 17:15.
Katharina Reitzler (University of Sussex): ‘Women’s International Thought in U.S. Public Culture: A Divided History’
Find us in St Katharine's Lodge, Room 1.10.
Katharina Reitzler (University of Sussex): ‘Women’s International Thought in U.S. Public Culture: A Divided History’
Find us in St Katharine's Lodge, Room 1.10.
April 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today at 17:15.
Katharina Reitzler (University of Sussex): ‘Women’s International Thought in U.S. Public Culture: A Divided History’
Find us in St Katharine's Lodge, Room 1.10.
Katharina Reitzler (University of Sussex): ‘Women’s International Thought in U.S. Public Culture: A Divided History’
Find us in St Katharine's Lodge, Room 1.10.
Hugo Drochon
‘Centrism from the French Revolution to Today’
Wednesday 2 April 2025
17:15-18:30
St Katharine's Lodge Room 1.10
www.intellectualhistory.net/events
‘Centrism from the French Revolution to Today’
Wednesday 2 April 2025
17:15-18:30
St Katharine's Lodge Room 1.10
www.intellectualhistory.net/events
Events — Institute of Intellectual History
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April 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Hugo Drochon
‘Centrism from the French Revolution to Today’
Wednesday 2 April 2025
17:15-18:30
St Katharine's Lodge Room 1.10
www.intellectualhistory.net/events
‘Centrism from the French Revolution to Today’
Wednesday 2 April 2025
17:15-18:30
St Katharine's Lodge Room 1.10
www.intellectualhistory.net/events
Part 2 of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration is now online on
@standrewsiih.bsky.social YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Q3...
@standrewsiih.bsky.social YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Q3...
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration (Part 2)
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March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Part 2 of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration is now online on
@standrewsiih.bsky.social YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Q3...
@standrewsiih.bsky.social YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Q3...
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What did the Greeks do for us? March’s blogpost reflects on 20 years since the publication of ‘The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought’. www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/2/28/the-greek-tradition-in-republican-thought @threadofariane.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought — Rachel Hammersley
I am currently co-teaching a module on 'The Scientific Revolution'. Consequently, Isaac Newton's famous comment to Robert Boyle about 'standing on the shoulders of giants' was already in my mind on 15...
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March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What did the Greeks do for us? March’s blogpost reflects on 20 years since the publication of ‘The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought’. www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/2/28/the-greek-tradition-in-republican-thought @threadofariane.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social
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Part 1 of 2 of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration is now online on @standrewsiih.bsky.social‘s YouTube channel!
Speakers in that part include:
Quentin Skinner, James Hankins, @rhammersley99.bsky.social, & many more.
👇🏻✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8V...
Speakers in that part include:
Quentin Skinner, James Hankins, @rhammersley99.bsky.social, & many more.
👇🏻✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8V...
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration (Part 1)
YouTube video by StAndrewsIIH
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February 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Part 1 of 2 of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration is now online on @standrewsiih.bsky.social‘s YouTube channel!
Speakers in that part include:
Quentin Skinner, James Hankins, @rhammersley99.bsky.social, & many more.
👇🏻✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8V...
Speakers in that part include:
Quentin Skinner, James Hankins, @rhammersley99.bsky.social, & many more.
👇🏻✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8V...
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In-person speakers lineup of my first organised conference, Greek Tradition Twenty, which took place on Feb 15th, 2025. The recording is in preparation and will be released soon @standrewsiih.bsky.social!
February 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In-person speakers lineup of my first organised conference, Greek Tradition Twenty, which took place on Feb 15th, 2025. The recording is in preparation and will be released soon @standrewsiih.bsky.social!
Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday's event and made it such a fantastic conference. #GreekTraditionTwenty www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...
February 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday's event and made it such a fantastic conference. #GreekTraditionTwenty www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...
Everything ready for tomorrow's big event. Welcome at 8.30 AM in Parliament Hall. www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...
February 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Everything ready for tomorrow's big event. Welcome at 8.30 AM in Parliament Hall. www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...
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Registration (in person or online) for #GreekTraditionTwenty ends on Saturday!
Make sure to drop me a message if you’d like to attend! My mail is avf2@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Make sure to drop me a message if you’d like to attend! My mail is avf2@st-andrews.ac.uk.
February 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Registration (in person or online) for #GreekTraditionTwenty ends on Saturday!
Make sure to drop me a message if you’d like to attend! My mail is avf2@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Make sure to drop me a message if you’d like to attend! My mail is avf2@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Please register for the conference by February 8th, 2025. Online participation also available with registration. www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...
Greek Tradition Twenty — Institute of Intellectual History
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January 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Please register for the conference by February 8th, 2025. Online participation also available with registration. www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...
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"Pocock was paradoxically under attack for being too liberal, but also for not being liberal enough.Said differently, Pocock was criticised for being too American and for not being American enough –all the more intriguing for a New Zealander" Read my article on JGA Pocock below! tinyurl.com/xtv3maav
History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life
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January 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"Pocock was paradoxically under attack for being too liberal, but also for not being liberal enough.Said differently, Pocock was criticised for being too American and for not being American enough –all the more intriguing for a New Zealander" Read my article on JGA Pocock below! tinyurl.com/xtv3maav