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Vico and the Concept of the Natural

82 min • 6 juli 2025

We discuss Vico's theory of nature, his unorthodox mix of stereotypically ancient and modern approaches, and how his "new science" seems to be going so far.

Senaste avsnitt

Vico and the Concept of the Natural

Senaste avsnitt

Vico and the Concept of the Natural

Hobbes' Behemoth

Nick Land & the Politics of Acceleration (w/Michael Downs)

The Politics of Plato's Parmenides

John Morley & the Politics of Compromise

The Politics of Plato's Philebus

Clausewitz (w/Elizabeth Dearden-Williams)

Cutrone and the Party (w/Chris Cutrone)

John Milton as a Political Theorist (w/Raeffe Gibson)

Michael Pettis as a Political Theorist

Samuel Huntington

Frédéric Bastiat

Terry Eagleton

Tertullian

Pocock & History in Political Theory

Murakami and Political Despair

Habermas

Christian Wolff

Monks in the City

G.K. Chesterton & G.B. Shaw as Political Theorists

Laclau

Lyotard

Deleuze & Guattari

Althusser & Foucault, Ideology & Power

Free Speech with Doug Lain

Nicole Oresme

The Roman Economy

Mou Zongsan

Wang Yangming

Shang Yang

Voter Ethics

Manuel II Palaiologos and Late Byzantine Thought

Aeschines, Demosthenes, and Athenian Rhetoric

Gandhi

John Duns Scotus

Chrysippus and Early Stoicism

Frynas, Petrol States, and Oil Companies

Bartolus and Roman Law in the Middle Ages

The Arthashastra

John Maynard Keynes as a Political Theorist

Nizam al-Mulk and Persian Political Thought

Confucius and the Role of Ritual in Chinese Political Thought

Žižek and the Politics of Ideology

Michael Psellos and Byzantine Political Thought

Pyrrho and the Politics of Skepticism

John Locke & Piracy

Aquinas and De Regno

Iamblichus and the Politics of Theurgy

James Harrington with Edmund Wilson

Marsilius of Padua

Skinner and the State

Dante's De Monarchia

Plato's Timaeus

G.A. Cohen and the September Group

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Concept of Representation

Sieyes and the French Revolution

Montesquieu: Honor, Monarchy, and the Prologue to the French Revolution

States of all Sizes & Polarity

Politics and Morality

Concepts of Currency

Aesthetics and Politics

Meditation and Buddhism with Charlotte Newman

Concepts of Liberty

Concepts of Equality

The Late Frankfurt School and the Cultural Turn

Weber on Maturity, Capitalism, and Protestantism

Durkheim and Lukacs on Alienation, Anomie, and Reification

Bentham, Mill, and the Utilitarians

Fenelon, Mandeville, and 18th Century Thoughts on Commerce & Luxury

Hobbes, Hume, Spinoza, and the Politics of Human Nature

The Frankfurt School and the Rise of the Interventionist State

Marxism After Marx

Nietzsche, Arendt, and Aesthetic Struggle

Marx and Materialism

Hegel and the German Conception of Freedom

Kant, Fichte, and the Liberal Origins of Nationalism

Machiavelli, Smith, and the Separation of Politics and Morality