The Late Frankfurt School and the Cultural Turn

The Late Frankfurt School and the Cultural Turn

Author: Political Theory 101 February 17, 2021 Duration: 1:52:22
Edmund and Benjamin return to the Frankfurt School, discussing the evolution of the theory of history as theorists incorporated more and more thoughts from Weber, Freud, and Heidegger. In the hands of the Americans, this process culminates in Habermas-influenced liberal accounts of deliberative democracy...

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Caesar, Weber, and the Power of Charisma [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:10
Edmund and Benjamin discuss the role of charismatic leaders in politics in the Roman Empire, interwar Germany, and more recently.
Aristotle, Constant, and the Distribution of Time [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:41
Benjamin and Edmund discuss the ancient zero-sum conception of liberty, attempts by later political theorists to universalise it, and some of the ways understandings of liberty have changed to accommodate that. Draws mos…
Hobbes, Plato, and the Rise of the State [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:54
Benjamin and Edmund discuss why both Hobbes and Plato think the state is necessary, comparing and contrasting the two along the way.
Welcome to Political Theory 101 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:25
Benjamin Studebaker and Edmund Wilson welcome you to a new series about the history of political thought and some of the people who have contributed to it.

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