Agnes Heller has had her share of 20th century travails. From the Holocaust to Stalinism she has sailed close to modernity’s darkest moments.

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The Philosopher's Zone looks at the world of philosophy and at the world through philosophy. The program addresses the big philosophical questions and arguments. It also explores what philosophical analysis can contribute to our understanding of some of the fundamental and perplexing issues that face the world today.
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Folge vom 23.06.2013Agnes Heller
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Folge vom 16.06.2013Happiness is...Picking a fight with the Stoics is not for the faint-hearted. But for one scholar of antiquity it’s necessary for the sake of human happiness.
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Folge vom 09.06.2013Friedrich KittlerSome understand him as a Teutonic version of Marshall McLuhan. They both peered into the black box of modern, mediated life but Friedrich Kittler’s understandings of the machine were altogether different.
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Folge vom 02.06.2013Plant thinkingAristotle‘s lost book on plants might have helped plants climb the philosophical trellis. As it stands though, they remain low on the hierarchy of sentience. Perhaps, the time has come for some serious plant thinking.