Why have certain intellectuals - from Jean-Paul Sartre to Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Derrida - become globally fashionable, inspiring not only scholarly studies but books, films and even fashion items, as if they were pop stars? Is it really just the power of their ideas or is there something rather less high-minded that makes a thinker indispensable to the cognoscenti?
Matthew Sweet and his guests discuss. Producer Zahid Warley
