This is Philosophy Bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.

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Interviews for philosophy bites have until now

always been conducted in person

but philosophy bites like much of the world is in lockdown.

So here's something a bit different, a book interview.

Philosophy books tend not to be bestsellers.

A little history of philosophy, published by Yale, was a rare exception,

translated into multiple languages. Its author might be familiar to you.

Nigel Warburton, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you very much.

We're talking today about a little history of philosophy.

You've written many books, but this is your best-selling book.

Tell us a bit about how it fits into a whole series of books.

Well, back in the early 30s, Ernst Gombric wrote a book called A Little History of the World

just after he finished his PhD. he was a brilliant art historian and

theorists about the nature of art but he was asked to write a history of the world and

he wrote that it was quite soon banned by the Nazis for being too pacifist and it wasn't actually published in English

until 2005 and then Yale University Press started commissioning a series following up from that.

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