Frauds of the left, Siblings
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'Frauds' of the Left: Laurie Taylor examines the intellectual credibility of key thinkers of the New Left. Roger Scruton, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, argues that the modern academy is gripped by a form of 'group think' which fails to challenge the positions of theorists such as Michel Foucault and Antonio Gramsci. Has left wing fashion trumped credible argument? They're joined by Mark Fisher, Lecturer in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Also, the significance of siblings in constructing a sense of self. Katherine Davies, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, discusses a study which suggests that the stories people tell about their similarity, or difference, from siblings have a critical role in shaping past, present and future identities.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co. UK. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello. Well as you can probably tell from my confident tone I have an almost innate sense of my own superiority, |
| 0:20.0 | but then compared to the rest of my family I had I had such a wonderful start. |
| 0:25.0 | Give me a cheer, precious firstborn. |
| 0:28.0 | You see the confidence of a firstborn? |
| 0:33.0 | Firstborn's know that very important thing |
| 0:36.0 | that you were created because two people fell so madly in love with each other |
| 0:42.0 | that they decided to create a human being out of that love. |
| 0:47.0 | Give me cheer people like me, secondborn children. |
| 0:50.0 | We were not made from love. We are toys for the firstborn. |
| 0:57.6 | That's the sole reason we exist. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, because we thought it'd be nice for him to have company. |
| 1:04.0 | Give me a cheer thirdborn children. |
| 1:07.0 | Not many photos of you. |
| 1:11.0 | Shappie Korsandi on BBC One's live at the Apollo. |
| 1:15.0 | Actually it's just too surprising that Shapi's rather lovely riff on siblings and sibling |
| 1:20.4 | rivalry was lapped up by her audience. What one thinks of one's brother and |
| 1:24.5 | one's sister is a common enough conversational topic, but social scientists have |
| 1:29.1 | sometimes seemed too preoccupied with parental influences to contribute much to this popular discourse. |
| 1:35.0 | So I was particularly pleased to come across an article in the journal Sociology which explicitly |
| 1:38.8 | sets out to explore the manner in which sibling relationships affect one's sense of self. |
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