Politeia
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe connect critical theory to the world through digital media
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《書到用時》EP06: 情人節不要說穿
February 15, 2022 04:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB二月十四，又是一年一度的西方情人節，送花食大餐似是不可或缺。但談愛也可以愛智慧，回到歷史的根源去問，到底情人節紀念的是甚麼呢? 婚姻跟愛情又是甚麼關係呢? 愛情最重要的目的是結婚嗎? 讓我們回到愛與秩序的張力之中，讓愛重新回到未解魅前，作為一個跨越世代的謎。 主持人: Samuel Lee (紐約社會研究新學院政治系博士生)/ Athena Tam (燃燈者主編)
《書到用時》EP05：污染作為殖民手段
February 01, 2022 18:00 - 15 minutes - 10.3 MB第五集的主題為「污染作為殖民手段」，通過閱讀Max Liboiron的新作Pollution Is Colonialism，讓我們跳出污染作為單純人類破壞環境的片面印象，改從更深入的帝國主義結構，重新設想污染如何作為全球北方對全球南方的支配，歐美的現代科學觀如何令自己化作唯一普遍客觀的知識體系，壟斷了人對自然和土地的理解和關係，也助長了人類利用大自然作為工具使用和污染的價值觀。 主持人: Samuel (紐約社會研究新學院政治系博士生)
《書到用時》EP01: 人類世及其不滿
February 01, 2022 18:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MB第一集題為「人類世及其不滿」，借助兩位法國批判思想學者Christophe Bonneuil 與Jean-Baptiste Fressoz第一集題為「人類世及其不滿」，借助兩位法國批判思想學者Christophe Bonneuil 與Jean-Baptiste Fressoz所著的The Shock of the Anthropocene，我們會嘗試了解近年日漸流行的「人類世」想法，跟最近愛丁堡氣候會議的關係，科學界如何理解全球暖化下的新人類時代，與及這論述框架的問題。 主持人: Samuel (紐約社會研究新學院政治系博士生)
《書到用時》EP02：超越人類世的歷史敘述
February 01, 2022 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB延續第一集對人類世的討論，今集會深入到兩位法國批判思想學者Christophe Bonneuil 與Jean-Baptiste Fressoz在The Shock of the Anthropocene所談及的「熱世」(Thermocene)和「死亡世」(Thanatocene)作為兩種角度，重新把握二氧化碳的政治經濟史，還有軍事發展帶來的生態災難，如何造成當前的各樣環境問題。 主持人: Samuel (紐約社會研究新學院政治系博士生)
《書到用時》EP03: 沒有冬至，哪有國家
February 01, 2022 18:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MB到了年尾，又是迎接聖誕和冬至，一家團圓相聚的日子。但到底聖誕和冬至是否有關係呢? 如果冬至代表著農業世界的生活節奏，那麼又會跟文明和國家有甚麼關係呢? 借助James Scott 的名著Against the Grain，我們會走進國家形成背後的農業經濟和社會演變，重新詰問傳統上理解農業社會等於文明化的信念。 主持人: Samuel (紐約社會研究新學院政治系博士生)
《書到用時》EP04: 希羅以前的地中海文明
February 01, 2022 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MB踏入2022年，希望跟讀者一同回顧幾本去年新出版或者新修訂的好書，今次講的是Eric H. Cline的名作 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed。 當我們一般講述所謂歐洲文明的起源時，總會追溯至希臘羅馬的傳統。然而希臘的遠古記憶，如荷馬史詩或者赫西俄德的《神譜》，當中所講述的木馬屠城或者阿加門農的神話故事，並不是發生在當時希臘世界的事件，而是來自更古老的邁錫尼文明的殘餘片段。那些史詩故事也跟青銅器時代西臺帝國的《庫馬爾比神話》或者蘇美時代的《吉爾伽美什史詩》多有關連。從種種蛛絲馬跡中，似乎揭示著一個曾經光輝燦爛的地中海文化，與及在公元前十二、三世紀之間的廣泛崩潰。為何文明崩潰會出現呢? 對今天會否有甚麼啟示呢? 主持人: Samuel (紐約社會研究新學院政治系博士生)
Stuart Elden and Samuel Lee on Foucault
November 03, 2021 05:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBShould we question the traditional periodization of Foucault's oeuvre? What is the difference between biography and intellectual history? Why read Foucault today? Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, will share his view about Foucault and the method of intellectual history.
Craig M. Wright and Samuel Lee on Beethoven
October 27, 2021 23:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBWhat makes a genius like Beethoven, nature or nurture? Why is Beethoven's music so embracive to different interpretations? How can we re-assess Beethoven's life and music in the 21st century? Does his preference in the genre of music (preference for sympathy over opera, for example) reveal something about his personality and aesthetics? Craig M. Wright, the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music Emeritus at Yale University, will share his view about Beethoven and art history.
Bernard Harcourt and Samuel Lee on Critical Legal Theory and Praxis
October 16, 2021 19:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBUnder the colonial legal system, should we still believe in due process and the rule of law? If the point is to change the world, how to develop a better form of praxis? What more am I to do? Bernard Harcourt, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, will share his view about critical legal theory and the approach of critical praxis.
Eric M. Nelson and Samuel Lee on John Rawls and Political Theology
October 11, 2021 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBHow can we re-read or re-evaluate Rawls and the contemporary debate of liberalism from a theological perspective? Why does political philosophy always intermingle with theology and how does this matter? Eric M. Nelson, the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University, will share his critical view about John Rawls, liberalism and political theology.
Richard J. Bernstein and Samuel Lee on Hannah Arendt
September 16, 2021 06:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBWhy does Arendt strongly insist on the neat distinction between the social and the political, the power and the violence? How does she understand the meaning of the American Revolution, and why she overlooks the Haiti Revolution, the so-called Black Jacobin Revolution that took place in the late 18th century? Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research, will share his critical view about Arendt's thought-provokin...
Samuel Moyn and Samuel Lee on Human Rights
September 08, 2021 23:00 - 14 minutes - 9.94 MBDoes the debate of human rights merely concern moral foundation or human dignity? How to reconceive and redefine the idea of human rights from a postcolonial perspective? Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, will show us how human rights connect to global economic fairness and inequality.
Simon Critchley and Samuel Lee on Plato and Tragedy
August 27, 2021 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBWhy should we value philosophy over tragedies, when the latter seems more realistic and powerful? Can we derive a new kind of philosophy from tragedies? Simon Critchley, the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, will argue for the role and significance of tragedy that is severely understated for centuries.
Gregory S. Moss and Samuel Lee on Hegel's Political Philosophy
August 27, 2021 23:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBIs Hegel a liberal? How to reconcile necessity and contingency through the historical development of self-determination? Gregory S. Moss, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, will show us how Hegel thinks about politics.