A Podcast about German Intellectual History

Zeitgeist und Geschichte

Invoking ‘German thought’ today is likely to trigger immediate associations with the Kantian critical project. At worst, reference to a ‘German’ tradition can even provoke suspicions around its potentially Fascist sympathies, and the darker, more irrational inclinations of the human psyche.

Yet the influence of German thinkers upon our contemporary academic world is vaster than these crudities allow. It is difficult to think of Political Theory without Hegel or Marx; Philosophy without Kant, or Literature without Sturm und Drang. Yet by questioning this ostensibly ‘German’ tradition of thinking, we can garner a greater appreciation of the diverse systems of thought that have come from Germany and make them easily available to an English-speaking audience.

Join us on this St Andrews podcast, as we interview academics and researchers of German Intellectual History with an eye to reflecting on the integral influence these thinkers have had on our intellectual landscape.