The Big Ideas podcast: Rousseau's 'Man is born free'
10/07/2012 | 12min
On the tricentenary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamen Walker and guests explore the legacy of the Swiss-born French philosopher
The Big Ideas podcast: Plato's 'just society'
09/05/2012 | 9min
Benjamen Walker and guests explore the legacy of Plato's Republic
The Big Ideas podcast: Guy Debord's 'society of the spectacle'
28/03/2012 | 13min
Benjamen Walker explores situationism and the legacy of French philosopher Guy Debord's famous phrase
The Big Ideas podcast: Friedrich Nietzsche's 'God is dead'
04/02/2012 | 14min
What did Nietzsche mean by the death of God? Benjamen Walker and guests explore the legacy of the German philosopher's statement
The Big Ideas podcast: Friedrich Kittler's computer wars
27/12/2011 | 13min
Philosopher Avital Ronell and novelist Tom McCarthy are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of 'the Derrida of the digital age'
Sobre The Big Ideas
Every month, a group of academics, columnists and philosophers dissect a phrase that's become an intellectual cliché in order to analyse its true meaning