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Podcast The Big Ideas

The Big Ideas

The Guardian

Frequency: 1 episode/40d. Total Eps: 10

Hosting podcast The Guardian
Every month, a group of academics, columnists and philosophers dissect a phrase that's become an intellectual cliché in order to analyse its true meaning
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The Big Ideas podcast: Rousseau's 'Man is born free'

mardi 10 juillet 2012 • Duration 12:41

On the tricentenary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamen Walker and guests explore the legacy of the Swiss-born French philosopher

The Big Ideas podcast: Plato's 'just society'

mercredi 9 mai 2012 • Duration 09:49

Benjamen Walker and guests explore the legacy of Plato's Republic

The Big Ideas podcast: Guy Debord's 'society of the spectacle'

mercredi 28 mars 2012 • Duration 13:18

Benjamen Walker explores situationism and the legacy of French philosopher Guy Debord's famous phrase

The Big Ideas podcast: Friedrich Nietzsche's 'God is dead'

samedi 4 février 2012 • Duration 14:04

What did Nietzsche mean by the death of God? Benjamen Walker and guests explore the legacy of the German philosopher's statement

The Big Ideas podcast: Friedrich Kittler's computer wars

mardi 27 décembre 2011 • Duration 13:16

Philosopher Avital Ronell and novelist Tom McCarthy are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of 'the Derrida of the digital age'

The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'

mercredi 9 novembre 2011 • Duration 12:03

Economist Andrew Simms and Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of Schumacher's 'Buddhist economics'

The Big Ideas podcast: Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' - audio

jeudi 6 octobre 2011 • Duration 12:14

Philosopher John Gray and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee are among those joining Benjamen Walker to consider the legacy of Smith's much-abused phrase

The Big Ideas podcast: the banality of evil

mercredi 17 août 2011 • Duration 20:13

In the second of a series of philosophy podcasts, Benjamen Walker and guests consider the impact and legacy of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase

The Big Ideas podcast: The medium is the message

mercredi 20 juillet 2011 • Duration 10:35

In the first of a series of philosophy podcasts, Benjamen Walker and guests discuss the communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and his most famous line

The Big Ideas podcast: coming soon

vendredi 15 juillet 2011 • Duration 00:37

Every month, a group of academics, columnists and philosophers dissect a phrase that's become an intellectual cliche in order to analyse its true meaning. The Big Ideas podcast starts on 21 July 2011

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