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 Mark Vernon: Wellbeing [14:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Mark Vernon has just brought out a book on wellbeing in a new series of which he’s general editor. But this isn’t a run-of-the-mill self-help series.
The series is called The Art of Living  and it’s published by independent philosophy specialist, Acumen. Their stated aim is to “open up philosophy’s riches to a wider public once […]

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 Simon Critchley: The Book of Dead Philosophers [24:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“The book is written against the view that a philosopher’s biography is of no importance and that philosophy can be reduced to a series of systems of thought.
It’s really an attempt to rewrite the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers. That was the way that philosophy was taught until the eighteenth century.
“So in […]

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In May I made a number of recordings for this year’s Bristol Festival of Ideas, a series of very popular events which brought some high-powered thinkers to the city to stimulate discussion on subjects as diverse as the legacy of ‘68 to why the human brain is not quite ‘fit for purpose’.
I’m editing my interviews […]

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