Decolonisation, Freedom, and African Intellectual History (Prof. Emma Hunter)

10/09/19 • 35 min

Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast

What can decolonisation in twentieth century Africa tell us about the history of political thought? How might African intellectual history shed light on new methods and modes of inquiry? And what does it mean to ‘decolonise’ intellectual history? Emma Hunter, professor of global and African history at the University of Edinburgh and the 2018/19 Quentin Skinner Fellow, joins us to discuss these questions and more in this episode.

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Some books and papers mentioned in this episode are:

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography by Peter Brown

The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

Spinoza on philosophy, religion, and politics: the Theologico-political treatise by Susan James

'Responding Emotionally to Fiction: A Spinozist Approach' by Susan James

Early Modern French Thought by Michael Moriarty