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Free Thinking: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Standford

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

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How philosophy helps us understand the world reshaped by Covid-19. Shahidha Bari presents.

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 Lévy 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 Lévy 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  https://www.bbc.co.uk/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  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gt9 

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