Bernard-Henri LΓ©vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Shahidha Bari talks about our changing world with French philosopher BHL, Prof Stella Sandford, Director of the Society for European Philosophy, and Prof Homi K Bhabha.
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri LΓ©vy 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 LΓ©vy 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 /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 /programmes/m0005gt9
Producer: Ruth Watts
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