PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Per...

<p>In light of <em>One Battle After Another</em>, Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al walk through the range of his films from his 1996 crime film <em>Hard Eight</em> through his much lauded <em>Magnolia</em>, <em>Boogie Nights</em>, <em>Punch-Drunk Love</em>, and <em>There Will Be ... Show More

<p>On sections of <em>The Problem of Christianity</em> (1913) which establish Royce's concept of a community of interpretation: individuals working together with a sense of shared history and expectation. He claims that such a grouping can be counted as a literal mind and that it ... Show More

<p>Marshall began creating his catchy, harmonically thick rock tunes in the early '80s with six major label albums, but went indie in the '90s to record four more as well as several EPs and live collections.</p> <p>We discuss "Stranger and Stranger," newly reworked for <em>From t ... Show More

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most interesting of the French phenomenological thinkers, but his reputation has been eclipsed by those of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Katherine Morris discusses some of Merleau-Ponty's ideas abou ... Show More

Peter's colleagues MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf join him for a special 50th episode interview, to discuss Aristotle's reactions to his teacher Plato 

For this Christmas Special, Tom and Helen discuss two of their all time favourite novels that share the same themes of empire, nationalism and loss - Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March (1932) and Giuseppe Tommasi, The Lampedusa's The Leopard (1958).<hr><p style='color:grey; font-si ... Show More

Casablanca's impact and the effect the film had on cinema audiences of 1942 are remembered by Alistair Cooke on its 50th anniversary. 

Matthew Sweet explores Belmondo's central role in the revolutionary cinema of 1960s France and how he became one of the most celebrated screen actors of his generation with Ginette Vincendeau, Lucy Bolton and Phuong Le.Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King's Col ... Show More

<p>Howard Bloom, the&nbsp;author of Global Brain and the Lucifer Principle, joins the show for a conversation about the 60’s and the journey of self-discovery.</p><p><br></p> 

In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Centur ... Show More

<p>A chat with Ann Blair about the "Theater of Nature" by Jean Bodin, and other encyclopedic works of natural philosophy.</p> 

<p>Expert en biologie moléculaire et en sciences de l’information, Joël de Rosnay est un scientifique français, né en 1940 à l’ile Maurice. D’abord chercheur et enseignant au MIT, il devient directeur des Applications de la Recherche de l’institut Pasteur. Agissant comme vulgaris ... Show More