Germaine de Staël with Helena Rosenblatt

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In this episode of Her Place in Theory, Juliette Marchant is joined by Helena Rosenblatt, Distinguished Professor of History, French, Political Science, Biography and Memoir at the CUNY Graduate Center, to discuss the life and legacy of Germaine de Staël.Together, they explore de Staël’s role in shaping modern liberalism, her navigation of the tumultuous politics of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the intellectual networks that made her a force across Europe. What can de Staël’s ideas about freedom, emotion, and conversation teach us about politics, and about the life of the mind, today?Texts Referenced in the Episode:The Lost History of Liberalism – Helena RosenblattConsiderations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution - Germaine de Staël

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