In this episode of Zeitgeist und Geschichte, we interview Professor Peter Gordon about his new book A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity (CUP, 2023).

Join us on this St. Andrews podcast as we interview academics and researchers of German Intellectual History with an eye to reflecting on the integral influence German thinkers have had on our intellectual landscape.

The workshop will take place 25th - 27th June 2025 at St Andrews Business School, Scotland, UK.

Deadline for abstracts (300-500 words): 1st November 2024.

Richard Whatmore speaks with Aurelian Craiutu about his new book Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals (CUP, 2023).

Martin Daunton speaks with Richard Whatmore about Adam Smith, David Hume and the End of Enlightenment

The Institute of Intellectual History is pleased to announce a call for papers dedicated to the 20th publication anniversary of Professor Eric Nelson’s book The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (CUP, 2004), which will take place at the University of St Andrews in mid-February 2025.

“‘Normal for Norfolk’: Two Legal Antiquaries on the Norman Conquest”

13, 14 & 16 May 2024.

Old Class Library, St Andrews.

Intellectual History in a Thousand Manuscripts

Item no. 24: A letter to Isaiah Berlin from 1955.

The History of Scottish Philosophy wi’ Muckle Gaps is back! Listen to new episodes here.

On 9 March, colleagues and friends of J. G. A. Pocock gathered in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews to celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest and most influential historians of the 20th century.

Deadline: 28 March 2024.

Saturday 9 March.
Parliament Hall, St Andrews.

Read the programme here.

This project seeks to advance philosophy in business ethics by drawing upon the history of moral, political, or legal thought.

Deadline: March 15th 2024.

We are pleased to announce that the 2022 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Claire Rydell Arcenas for America’s Philosopher - John Locke in American Intellectual Life (UCP).

John Pocock, who has died at the age of ninety-nine only a little short of his hundredth birthday, was a giant of the historical profession.

Obituary by Colin Kidd

Talk given by Richard Whatmore in Vienna, December 2023.

Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment will be published on December 7th 2023. Join us for the book launch in St Andrews.

Robin Mills speaks with Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam) about his recently published book Europe against Revolution (OUP, 2023).

Robin Mills speaks with Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas about the history of basic income, from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic and political crisis to its present-day popularity in Silicon Valley.

Robin Mills speaks with Fredrik A. Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, who examine the origins of the vision of scarcity embedded in modern economics and demonstrate its historical contingency, even in the age of capitalism.