Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share A Philosophical Forgery?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
A Philosophical Forgery?
In 1852, a book of philosophical enquiry was discovered in Ethiopia. But what if the Hatata Zera Yacob is a forgery? Does it matter, if the message is inspirational? Debates over its authorship rage and Jonathan Egid’s essay asks what these tell us about politics then and now.
Jonathan Egid is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC to put academic research on radio.
He’s been a Postgraduate Fellow at the British Society for the History of Philosophy and lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is writing a book about the history of the Hatata Zera Yacob debate, and runs a podcast on philosophy in less-studied languages called Philosophising In ...
Producer: Luke Mulhall
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 3
4.2
8282 ratings
In 1852, a book of philosophical enquiry was discovered in Ethiopia. But what if the Hatata Zera Yacob is a forgery? Does it matter, if the message is inspirational? Debates over its authorship rage and Jonathan Egid’s essay asks what these tell us about politics then and now.
Jonathan Egid is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC to put academic research on radio.
He’s been a Postgraduate Fellow at the British Society for the History of Philosophy and lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is writing a book about the history of the Hatata Zera Yacob debate, and runs a podcast on philosophy in less-studied languages called Philosophising In ...
Producer: Luke Mulhall
More shows like The Essay
View all
Global News Podcast
7,911 Listeners
Ask Penguin
144 Listeners
Newshour
1,066 Listeners
In Our Time
5,572 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,802 Listeners
Arts & Ideas
303 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,744 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,029 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,953 Listeners
Great Lives
489 Listeners
Backlisted
584 Listeners
The Conversation
71 Listeners
BBC Inside Science
413 Listeners
Thinking Allowed
305 Listeners
Curious Cases
760 Listeners
The Audio Long Read
841 Listeners
Front Row
129 Listeners
All in the Mind
61 Listeners
Bookclub
241 Listeners
Word of Mouth
56 Listeners
Private Passions
53 Listeners
The TLS Podcast
181 Listeners
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
4,172 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,234 Listeners