New Work In Intellectual History

In this episode, Kohei Shiozawa speaks with Professor Susan James FBA about the art of philosophy and Nicolas Poussin as a philosophical painter. Professor James visited St Andrews earlier this year when she was invited to give the Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History.

In this episode, Yifan Wang and Seungeun Lee speak with Professor Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary) about his new book The West: The History of an Idea (PUP, 2025).

In this episode, Harim and Hyein interview Lasse S. Andersen about the new edited volume entitled Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights (CUP, 2026). This volume, which brings together seven hitherto unpublished papers by the late István Hont, was published by Cambridge University Press in January of 2026. The interview was conducted in the spring of 2025. Apologies for the poor audio.

In this episode, Derek van Voorst interviews Professor Ferenc Hörcher. The two discuss his new edited text “Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton”, as well as the history and future of modern conservatism both politically and philosophically.

In this episode, Seungeun Lee interviews Professor Robert Frost, the Burnett Fletcher Chair in History at Aberdeen University. Professor Frost gave a lecture at the Institute of Intellectual History on 17 September 2025, on which day he also sat down for an in-depth interview about his ongoing, multi-volume work on the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569.