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Back to SearchRt Honourable Jesse Norman MP (Con) on "The Winding Stair": Dissecting Francis Bacon's Ambition and the Art of Historical Fiction
Season 1 Episode 21
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A sitting MP and Bacon biographer on ambition, power, and writing history as fiction.
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2 years, 7 months ago
Professor Ritchie Robertson on 'The Enlightenment and the Pursuit of Happiness'
Season 1 Episode 20
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Was happiness always the Enlightenment's real project? Ritchie Robertson makes the case.
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2 years, 8 months ago
Shapers of Political Thought Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine Explored
Season 1 Episode 19
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Burke and Paine argued about the French Revolution in real time — and the disagreement still defines left and right.
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2 years, 8 months ago
Prof. Anthony Pagden on 'The Enlightenment and Why it Still Matters'.
Season 1 Episode 18
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A leading historian on why Enlightenment ideas remain the ground we still argue on, whether we admit it or not.
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2 years, 8 months ago
Prof. Denis Lacorne on 'The Limits of Tolerance'
Season 1 Episode 17
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How much difference can a liberal society actually tolerate before tolerance itself breaks down?
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2 years, 9 months ago
The Tyranny of Reason
Season 1 Episode 16
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When does reason stop liberating us and start dominating us? A look at the Enlightenment's own internal critics.
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2 years, 9 months ago
Professor Dominic Aquila on 'The Church and the Age of Enlightenment (1648-1848)'
Season 1 Episode 16
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Two centuries of an uneasy relationship between organized religion and Enlightenment rationalism.
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2 years, 9 months ago
The Enlightenment or the 'Age of Reason'
Season 1 Episode 15
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What did contemporaries actually mean when they called their own era "the Age of Reason"?
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2 years, 9 months ago
Enlightenment, Encyclopédie and Ernst Cassirer
Season 1 Episode 14
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How Diderot's Encyclopédie tried to organize all human knowledge — and how Cassirer later made sense of the Enlightenment as a whole.…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rt Honourable Hillary Benn MP (Lab): Brexit, COVID-19 and Education
Season 1 Episode 13
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A senior Labour MP on three of the defining crises of recent British politics.
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2 years, 10 months ago