New Work 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seven hitherto unpublished papers by the late István Hont, was published by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.

What is the relation between philosophy’s claim to disinterested universal
rational inquiry and its historical existence as an assemblage of
apparently sectarian schools? This is the question that formed the topic
for a conversation that Valery Vino initiated with Ian Hunter.