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19th-century French philosophers

In the 19th century, the philosophers of the 18th-century Enlightenment began to have a dramatic effect on subsequent developments in philosophy. In particular, the works of Immanuel Kant gave rise to a new generation of German philosophers and began to see wider recognition internationally.

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Culture History Philosophy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Philosophers of literature Philosophers of mind Metaphysicians Aphorists Philosophers of law 20th-century atheists Nobel laureates in Literature 18th-century philosophers Jewish philosophers University of Paris alumni Writers from Paris 20th-century French philosophers French Roman Catholics French atheists French political philosophers Natural law ethicists 19th-century atheists Philosophers of language Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Former Roman Catholics French women philosophers Members of the Académie Française Modernist writers 20th-century French novelists Conversationalists French male non-fiction writers French philosophers of culture French philosophers of history Phenomenologists École Normale Supérieure alumni 19th-century French women writers French LGBTQ novelists French Nobel laureates French epistemologists French feminists French literary critics French philosophers of art French sociologists French women novelists Historians of the French Revolution LGBTQ Roman Catholics 18th-century French women writers 19th-century French letter writers 19th-century French novelists 19th-century mystics 20th-century mystics Academic staff of the Collège de France French Roman Catholic writers Knights of the Legion of Honour Lycée Condorcet alumni People with hypochondriasis Women in the French Revolution 18th-century French letter writers 19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people 19th-century French male writers 19th-century French writers 20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writers Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism, Romantic philosophers Deaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winners Economic sociologists French essayists French political scientists French political writers French salon-holders French short story writers French travel writers People of the First French Empire

Bergson and Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Henri Bergson on how our experience of time as a duration differs from the scientific measurement of time, and why that matters.

9 May 2019

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Featuring: Keith Ansell-Pearson, Emily Thomas, Mark Sinclair

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Philosophy Writers from Paris French Nobel laureates Academic staff of the Collège de France Philosophers of language Lycée Condorcet alumni Metaphysicians 19th-century French writers 19th-century French philosophers Philosophers of mind École Normale Supérieure alumni 20th-century French philosophers Phenomenologists Nobel laureates in Literature Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences French epistemologists Jewish philosophers 19th century 20th century France Language Medicine
Germaine de Staël

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, works and life of Germaine de Stael (1766-1817), a literary critic, author, opponent of Napoleon and developer of Romanticism.

16 November 2017

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Featuring: Catriona Seth, Alison Finch, Katherine Astbury

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Culture French literary critics Conversationalists People of the First French Empire 19th-century French novelists French travel writers 19th-century French women writers 18th-century French women writers French feminists 18th-century philosophers Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism, Romantic philosophers 18th-century French letter writers French salon-holders 19th-century French philosophers Women in the French Revolution Writers from Paris French Roman Catholics 19th-century French letter writers French women novelists French women philosophers 18th century 19th century France
Proust

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and achievements of the 19th century French novelist Marcel Proust whose 3000 page work À La Recherche du Temps Perdu has been called the definitive modern novel.

17 April 2003

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Featuring: Jacqueline Rose, Malcolm Bowie, Robert Fraser

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Lycée Condorcet alumni Deaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winners French literary critics Conversationalists French essayists French male non-fiction writers Former Roman Catholics 20th-century mystics 20th-century atheists French short story writers 20th-century French philosophers 19th-century atheists People with hypochondriasis Modernist writers Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French philosophers French philosophers of art 20th-century French novelists French Roman Catholic writers French LGBTQ novelists Writers from Paris 19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people 20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writers LGBTQ Roman Catholics Aphorists 19th-century mystics French atheists Philosophers of literature 19th century 20th century France
Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville and his study of the American democratic system, written as an example to France of how democracy might develop there.

22 March 2018

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Featuring: Robert Gildea, Susan-Mary Grant, Jeremy Jennings

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History Writers from Paris French Roman Catholics Members of the Académie Française French sociologists French male non-fiction writers Philosophers of law Historians of the French Revolution 19th-century French male writers Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French philosophers Economic sociologists Natural law ethicists French philosophers of history French political writers French political scientists French political philosophers French philosophers of culture University of Paris alumni 19th century America France