BlomCast
The BlomCast looks at turning points in history, which have always fascinated me. My name is Philipp Blom, I am a historian and broadcaster and author of many books about the Enlightenment, the story of modernity and climate history. The climate catastrophe places us at the greatest historical turning point hin human history. What, if anything, can we learn from moments in the past in which a model of life seemed to change, or had to change, in which whole societies were transformed?
Podcasting since 2022 • 41 episodes
BlomCast
Latest Episodes
[30] Raoul Schrott — Der Sternenhimmel oder, wie Homo sapiens die Welt eroberte
Alle Kulturen sehen dieselben Sterne (wenn auch auf beiden Hemisphären unterschiedlich), erzählen sich aber ganz unterschiedliche Geschichten darüber. Tatsächlich gibt es überraschende Ähnlichkeiten zwischen den Sternbildern der Australischen U...
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Episode 30
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1:34:46
[29] Richard Cockett — Vienna, City of Ideas
Modernity is a Viennese phenomenon, says historian Richard Cockett, who is currently working as senior editor at The Economist. The cauldron of Vienna ca. 1900 with its dynamism, its migrants and its cultural new beginnings and especially the p...
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Episode 29
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[28] Musa Al-Gharbi — Symbolic Capitalism and the Pitfalls of Moral Righteousness
"We Have Never Been Woke" is the title of Musa Al-Gharbi’s brilliantly polemic analysis of an educational and social elite that believes it has all the answers. He calls this professional class symbolic capitalists — people who make their livin...
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Episode 28
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1:23:47
[27] Franz Essl — Über Wendepunkte reden
Die Artenvielfalt bricht weltweit so rasend schnell zusammen, dass die Naturwissenschaft schon von einem Sechsten Artensterben sprechen. In Europa sind beispielsweise die Insekten um bis zu 80% zurückgegangen, die der Singvögel um etwa 50%. Fra...
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Episode 27
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[26] Samuel Moyn — Has the Liberal Dream Collapsed
In this fascinating conversation we explore the history of liberal ideas from Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mills until today. Samuel Moyn is particularly interested in liberalism during the Cold War and the changes these ideas were sub...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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