Andrea Wulf

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625 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

Thank you for having me.

Very much so.

I think I am interested in the ideas.

I mean, I'm not...

I don't like to be in a category, so I am kind of a historian.

I've done a lot of history of science.

I've done philosophy.

So I think I'm interested in the ideas, but I'm really interested in who had these ideas because I think we sometimes tend to think about the work of someone or the idea of someone

as a kind of standalone thing.

And we forget that it was very much influenced also by the life they lived.

So like a poet, for example, we read the poem or we read a drama or a novel, but that is very often influenced by what that person just went through in their life.

So that are the things I'm interested in.

But also I think because we tend to focus

If we focus on a person, we tend to focus on one person.

And we also forget that we don't really, unless you're a hermit, you don't really exist in a vacuum.

So we are all part of a community, of a family, a group of friends, at work, in a country, in a nation.

So I'm interested at these kind of threats and connections.

But then also, who were the people who have...

given us the ideas of the Enlightenment or Romanticism, for example.

And I'm interested in particular the so-called long 18th century, so from the late 17th century to the early 19th century, because I think a lot of the ideas we have today or who we are today is shaped by what happened during that time.

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