Stuart Elden - Thinking about the question of power with Foucault
Foucault says we need to think about power in a different way. It’s not that power doesn’t work in those ways, but that power doesn’t only work in those ways. About Stuart Elden "I’m a Professor of Po...
22 Jul 202514min
Peter Salmon - Breaking down deconstruction with Derrida
Novelist and biographer Peter Salmon, discusses deconstruction – the question the philosopher Jacques Derrida never wanted to answer. About Peter Salmon "I’m a novelist and biographer. I recently wro...
21 Jul 202512min
Kate Kirkpatrick - Sartre, Beauvoir and existentialism
I’m the Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics at Regent's Park College, Oxford. My research focuses primarily on Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and I've written a few books on S...
20 Jul 202512min
Lyndsey Stonebridge - Thinking with Hannah Arendt
Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, tells how Hannah Arendt helped her to think. About Lyndsey Stonebridge "I am Professor of Humanities and ...
19 Jul 202512min
Dana Mills - Simone Weil and the relationship between action and thought
Dana Mills, lecturer in political theory at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, discusses Simone Weil and activism. About Dana Mills "I'm the Director of International Relations at Gisha and I have ...
18 Jul 202513min
Barry Smith - Wittgenstein and the ambition of philosophy, logic and language
Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, discusses Wittgenstein, logic and language. About Barry Smith "I'm a professor of philosophy and Director of the I...
17 Jul 202513min
Adrian Moore - Kant and how to live in purely rational terms
Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, explores the practical use of reason and morality in Kant’s system. About Adrian Moore "I am Professor of Philosophy at the Universit...
16 Jul 202512min
Susan James - Spinoza, the philosopher, and the virtue of fortitude
Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, discusses why Spinoza’s philosophy is relevant to our lives today. About Susan James "I’m a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck Colle...
15 Jul 202512min
