![]() ![]() Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature.Bernard Williams on the Spell of Linguistic Philosophy.Herbert Marcuse on the Frankfurt School.You can watch select interviews of Men of Ideas and The Great Philosopherson YouTube, including: ![]() Both series brought BBC viewers in-depth, uncut conversations with many of the day’s most famous philosophers. ![]() When Magee played to both these strengths at once, he came up with two philosophical television shows in the span of a decade: Men of Ideas, which began in 1978, and The Great Philosophers, which ran in 1987. He also wrote another memoir called The Television Interviewer, and philosophically inclined laymen may fondly remember him as just that. Students and professors of philosophy probably know him from his large print oeuvre, which includes volumes on Popper and Schopenhauer as well as several guides to western philosophy and the autobiographical Confessions of a Philosopher. You can watch them online.īryan Magee comes from a tradition that produced some of the twentieth century’s most impressive media personalities: that of the scholarship-educated, Oxbridge-refined, intellectually omnivorous, occasionally office-holding, radio- and television-savvy man of letters. Below, we bring you a post from our archive that highlights Magee’s many televised interviews with influential philosophers. Note: We woke this morning to the news that Bryan Magee, academic and popularizer of philosophy, has passed away. ![]()
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