Conversation with Barry Prize Winner Jon Levenson

Jon Levenson of Harvard University was awarded a 2023 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement.
In this video, Greg Forster of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters interviews Dr. Levenson about the danger of "presentism" and "reductionism" - overemphasizing immediate relevance and the role of power relations in a way that can deafen us to the voice of the past and the transcendent.
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