Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has written a philosophical take on the current pandemic and what it tells us about society. He talks with Stella Sandford, Director of the Society for European Philosophy in the UK and author of How to Read Beauvoir, whose own research looks at sex, race and feminism, and with Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. The Virus in the Age of Madness by Bernard-Henri Lévy is out now. You can find a philosophy playlist on the Free Thinking programme website featuring discussions including panpsychism, Boethius, Isaiah Berlin, the quartet of C20th British women philosophers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x0twx You can also find Prof Homi K Bhabha giving a lecture on memory and migration recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gt9 Producer: Ruth Watts
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| 0:41.6 | So what can our finest thinkers tell us about philosophy in a time of COVID-19? |
| 0:46.9 | And can they help us to make sense of our strange times? |
| 0:51.1 | Homie Baba, Bernard Henri Levy and Stella Sanford in conversation for today's |
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