Der Sozialphilosoph Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) suchte Zeit seines Lebens nach den Möglichkeiten für eine humanere Gesellschaft. Wie aktuell ist seine Gesellschaftskritik heute? Von Sven Ahnert (SWR 2020/2025) | Manuskript und mehr zur Sendung: http://swr.li/erich-fromm | Mehr Porträts bei Das Wissen von Personen aus Wissenschaft und Kultur: http://swr.li/bio ... Show More
Aug 23
Private Hochschulen boomen – Eliteprojekt oder Bildung für alle?
Private Hochschulen boomen in Deutschland. Sie sind teuer, bieten aber denjenigen Chancen auf ein Studium, die an staatlichen Unis keine Möglichkeiten hätten. Von Luca Sumfleth (SWR 2025) Manuskript und mehr zur Sendung: http://swr.li/private-hochschulen Hörtipps: Stanford, Harva ... Show More
28m 23s
Jun 2023
Plato: the world’s greatest philosopher?
He learned from Socrates, taught Aristotle and is often described as the key figure in the history of philosophy. But what do we actually know about the life of Plato of Athens? And why was his work so pioneering? Plato’s latest biographer, Robin Waterfield, joins Rob Attar to ex ... Show More
43m 13s
Aug 2021
The Present Age | Søren Kierkegaard
The Present Age was published in 1846 by Søren Kierkegaard. He discusses the philosophical implications of a society dominated by mass media, foreseeing the rise of twenty-four hour news and social media, it examines the philosophical implications of a culture of endless, inconse ... Show More
10 m
Aug 2023
Travis Holloway, "How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene" (Stanford UP, 2022)
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster.The irony of t ... Show More
51m 14s
Apr 2024
Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist?
Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher, and the author of numerous books, including Understanding Postmodernism, and Nietzsche & the Nazis. As Professor Hicks is a critic of postmodernism, I decided to ask him about Nietzsche's connection to postmodern thought. Is Nietz ... Show More
1 h