Posts Tagged History

Historyish Podcast Profile of Foucault

Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in Other (i.e. Lesser) Podcasts on February 1, 2012

Historyish FoucaultIn looking for Foucault supplementary audio, I ran across a fairly new podcast, “Historyish,” which appears to be run by people involved with the University of Warwick and the Postgraduate Forum for the History of Medicine.

Their October 2011 episode on Foucault can be found here; the page itself includes some of the biographical information read on the episode.

The first 20 min of the episode are not about Foucault, but instead a “this day in history” segment, sharing fun facts. From this, I had hoped that we’d get some clarity re. how accurate a historian Foucault was (a topic which we decided on our Foucault episode was rather beside the point for our purposes). Instead, you get a decent overview of Foucault’s life and work, which made a few points that I hadn’t really considered:

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How Did We Get Here?: Fukuyama on The Origins of Political Order

Posted by Tom McDonald in Reviewage on December 11, 2011

Francis FukuyamaIn his new book The Origins of Political Order,Francis Fukuyama tackles the history of the idea and its reality “from prehuman times to the French Revolution.” Fukuyama works under the contemporary name of political science, but he is really one of the few people we have today intellectually able to go beyond the narrow confines of academic specialization and to give us the sort of philosophically-informed and empirically-informed broad vision comparable to that of the classical modern political philosophers, e.g., the grand ambitions we find in Adam Smith‘s Wealth of Nations, David Hume‘s 6-volume History of England (“From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688″), and Hegel’s History of Philosophy.

Watch a video interview where Fukuyama summarizes his book.

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