OPEN STACKS | #20 UCHI 0101: Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse, Catherine Zuckert & Katy O'Brien Weintraub
September 24th, 2017
This week on Open Stacks, we celebrate the new school year at our neighbor, the University of Chicago. We'll hear from Professors Catherine Zuckert and Nathan Tarcov on Zuckert's book Machiavelli's Politics, and Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse on their new book, Debating Darwin. Plus, a very special interview with Co-op bookseller and UChicago instructor, Katy O'Brien Weintraub.
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Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a surprising amount we don't know about the father...
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Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the Discourses on Livy to argue that Machiavelli is actually a passionate advocate of republican...