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Can Education Save Us from Society?
Episode 3
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Can education protect us from the society that forms us? In the final episode of our Rousseau series, Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Can society make us free again?
Episode 2
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If society creates dependence and inequality, can political association also make us free? In the second episode of our Rousseau seri…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and why did he turn against civilisation?
Episode 1
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In the first of three Beyond the Text episodes on Rousseau, Samuel Woodall explores the life behind the arguments: the Confessions, G…
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Who gets to call others barbarous?
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Who gets to call another society barbarous, and what does that judgement reveal about ourselves? In the final episode of our Montaign…
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How should we learn to live and die?
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Does thinking about death set us free, or keep us trapped by fear? In the second episode of our Montaigne series, Samuel Woodall and …
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Why did Montaigne make himself his subject?
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In the first episode of our Montaigne series, Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson ask why Michel de Montaigne made himself the subject of…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
When does disagreement become faction?
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When does an argument among citizens become a threat to political peace? In the final conversation of this Hobbes series, Samuel Wood…
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Why should we obey the state?
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What problem does political authority solve, and what do we give up when we create it? In the second of three conversations, Samuel W…
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Who was Thomas Hobbes and what was he afraid of?
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The first of three Beyond the Text conversations on Thomas Hobbes. Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson begin with Hobbes’s life, the poli…
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Symphony for Sovereignty: How Music Toppled an Empire
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In this solo episode, we examine the political power of song during the Baltic "Singing Revolution" and the historic Baltic Way of Au…
1 month, 3 weeks ago