In Our Time: Philosophy
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<p>From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes.</p>
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Recent Episodes
April 24, 2025
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), who was part of the movement known as phenomenology. While less well-known than his contemporaries Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his popularity has increased among philosophers in recent years. Merleau-Ponty rejected Rene Descartes’ division between body and mind, arguing that the way we perceive the world around us cannot be separated from our experience of inhabiting a physical body. Merleau-Ponty was interested in the down-to-earth question of what it is actually like to live in the world. While performing actions as simple as brushing our teeth or patting a dog, we shape the world and, in turn, the world shapes us. With </p><p>Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield</p><p>Thomas Baldwin Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of York</p><p>And </p><p>Timothy Mooney Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin</p><p>Produced by Eliane Glaser</p><p>Reading list:</p><p>Peter Antich, Motivation and the Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2021)</p><p>Dimitris Apostolopoulos, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) </p><p>Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails (Chatto and Windus, 2016) </p><p>Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings (Routledge, 2004)</p><p>Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Reading Merleau-Ponty (Routledge, 2007)</p><p>Renaud Barbaras (trans. Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor), The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (Indiana University Press, 2004).</p><p>Anya Daly, Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)</p><p>M. C. Dillon, Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (Northwestern University Press, 1998, 2nd ed.) </p><p>Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Alden L. Fisher), The Structure of Behavior (first published 1942; Beacon Press, 1976)</p><p>Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Donald Landes), Phenomenology of Perception (first published 1945; Routledge, 2011)</p><p>Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-Sense (first published 1948; Northwestern University Press, 1964)</p><p>Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Signs (first published 1960; Northwestern University Press, 1964)</p><p>Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (first published 1964; Northwestern University Press, 1968)</p><p>Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Oliver Davis with an introduction by Thomas Baldwin), The World of Perception (Routledge, 2008)</p><p>Ariane Mildenberg (ed.), Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2019)</p><p>Timothy Mooney, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception: On the Body Informed (Cambridge University Press, 2023) </p><p>Katherine J. Morris, Starting with Merleau-Ponty (Continuum, 2012) </p><p>Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2011)</p><p>Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, The Routledge Guidebook to Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2011)</p><p>Jean-Paul Sartre (trans. Benita Eisler), Situations (Hamish Hamilton, 1965)</p><p>Hilary Spurling, The Girl from the Fiction Department (Penguin, 2003)</p><p>Jon Stewart (ed.), The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (Northwestern University Press, 1998)</p><p>Ted Toadvine, Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature (Northwestern University Press, 2009)</p><p>Kerry Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of an Existential Politics (Princeton University Press, 1988)</p><p>Iris Marion Young, On Female Body Experience: “Throwing Like a Girl” and Other Essays (Oxford University Press, 2005)</p><p>In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production</p>
February 20, 2025
Socrates in Prison
<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show Socrates preparing to die in the way he had lived: doing philosophy. In the Crito, Plato shows Socrates arguing that he is duty bound not to escape from prison even though a bribe would open the door, while in the Phaedo his argument is for the immortality of the soul which, at the point of death, might leave uncorrupted from the 'prison' of his body, the one escape that truly mattered to Socrates. His example in his last days has proved an inspiration to thinkers over the centuries and in no small way has helped ensure the strength of his reputation.</p><p>With</p><p>Angie Hobbs Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield</p><p>Fiona Leigh Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University College London</p><p>And </p><p>James Warren Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge</p><p>Producer: Simon Tillotson</p><p>Reading list:</p><p>David Ebrey, Plato’s Phaedo: Forms, Death and the Philosophical Life (Cambridge University Press, 2023)</p><p>Dorothea Frede, ‘The Final Proof of the Immortality of the Soul in Plato’s Phaedo 102a-107a’ (Phronesis 23, 1978)</p><p>W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 4, Plato: The Man and his Dialogues, Earlier Period (Cambridge University Press, 2008) Verity Harte, ‘Conflicting Values in Plato’s Crito’ (Archiv. für Geschichte der Philosophie 81, 1999)</p><p>Angie Hobbs, Why Plato Matters Now (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025), especially chapter 5 </p><p>Rachana Kamtekar (ed.), Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology and Crito: Critical Essays (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)</p><p>Richard Kraut, Socrates and the State (Princeton University Press, 1984)</p><p>Melissa Lane, ‘Argument and Agreement in Plato’s Crito’ (History of Political Thought 19, 1998) </p><p>Plato (trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo and Phaedrus (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 2017)</p><p>Plato (trans. G. M. A. Grube and John Cooper), The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Hackett, 2001) </p><p>Plato (trans. Christopher Rowe), The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Penguin, 2010)</p><p>Donald R. Robinson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Socrates (Cambridge University Press, 2011)</p><p>David Sedley and Alex Long (eds.), Plato: Meno and Phaedo (Cambridge University Press, 2010)</p><p>James Warren, ‘Forms of Agreement in Plato’s Crito’ (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, April 2023)</p><p>Robin Waterfield, Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths (Faber and Faber, 2010)</p><p>In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production</p>
November 14, 2024
Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) in which Hayek (1899-1992) warned that the way Britain was running its wartime economy would not work in peacetime and could lead to tyranny. His target was centralised planning, arguing this disempowered individuals and wasted their knowledge, while empowering those ill-suited to run an economy. He was concerned about the support for the perceived success of Soviet centralisation, when he saw this and Fascist systems as two sides of the same coin. When Reader's Digest selectively condensed Hayek’s book in 1945, and presented it not so much as a warning against tyranny as a proof against socialism, it became phenomenally influential around the world. </p><p>With </p><p>Bruce Caldwell Research Professor of Economics at Duke University and Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy</p><p>Melissa Lane The Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the 50th Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College in London</p><p>And</p><p>Ben Jackson Professor of Modern History and fellow of University College at the University of Oxford</p><p>Producer: Simon Tillotson</p><p>Reading list:</p><p>Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression (Harvard University Press, 2012)</p><p>Bruce Caldwell, Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 2004)</p><p>Bruce Caldwell, ‘The Road to Serfdom After 75 Years’ (Journal of Economic Literature 58, 2020)</p><p>Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger, Hayek: A Life 1899-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2022)</p><p>M. Desai, Marx’s Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism (Verso, 2002)</p><p>Edward Feser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hayek (Cambridge University Press, 2006)</p><p>Andrew Gamble, Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty (Polity, 1996)</p><p>Friedrich Hayek, Collectivist Economic Planning (first published 1935; Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2015), especially ‘The Nature and History of the Problem’ and ‘The Present State of the Debate’ by Friedrich Hayek</p><p>Friedrich Hayek (ed. Bruce Caldwell), The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition (first published 1944; Routledge, 2008. Also vol. 2 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, University of Chicago Press, 2007)</p><p>Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom: Condensed Version (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2005; The Reader’s Digest condensation of the book)</p><p>Friedrich Hayek, ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’ (American Economic Review, vol. 35, 1945; vol. 15 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, University of Chicago Press) </p><p>Friedrich Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order (first published 1948; University of Chicago Press, 1996), especially the essays ‘Economics and Knowledge’ (1937), ‘Individualism: True and False’ (1945), and ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’ (1945)</p><p>Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (first published 1960; Routledge, 2006) </p><p>Friedrich Hayek, Law. Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy (first published 1973 in 3 volumes; single vol. edn, Routledge, 2012)</p><p>Ben Jackson, ‘Freedom, the Common Good and the Rule of Law: Hayek and Lippmann on Economic Planning’ (Journal of the History of Ideas 73, 2012)</p><p>Robert Leeson (ed.), Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part I (Palgrave, 2013), especially ‘The Genesis and Reception of The Road to Serfdom’ by Melissa Lane</p><p>In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production</p>
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