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Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
With the success of the far right Alternative for Deutschland party in the German elections, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris making their pitches to American voters to be their leader and the Conservatives in this country voting for their: we look at Carl Schmitt, the German political theorist of democracy, crisis and dictatorship, to see if he can help us make sense of the present moment.
Anne McElvoy's guests are:
Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston, is a British German politician. A former Labour politician she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords
David Runciman is former Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and now hosts Past Present Future: The History of Ideas Podcast. His most recent book is called The History of Ideas : Equality, Justice and Revolution
Tom Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Katya Adler is the BBC's Europe Editor
Plus Charles Tripp, emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern politics at SOAS is chair of the judges for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
Books on the shortlist announced this week are:
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton
Divided, Racism, Medicine and why we Need to DeColonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics and its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
The winner of the prize of £25,000 will be announced on October 22nd 2024. And Free Thinking will be looking at some of the other non fiction book prize shortlists over episodes this Autumn
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You can find past episodes of Free Thinking available on BBC Sounds and as the BBC Arts & Ideas podcast
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With the success of the far right Alternative for Deutschland party in the German elections, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris making their pitches to American voters to be their leader and the Conservatives in this country voting for their: we look at Carl Schmitt, the German political theorist of democracy, crisis and dictatorship, to see if he can help us make sense of the present moment.
Anne McElvoy's guests are:
Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston, is a British German politician. A former Labour politician she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords
David Runciman is former Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and now hosts Past Present Future: The History of Ideas Podcast. His most recent book is called The History of Ideas : Equality, Justice and Revolution
Tom Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Katya Adler is the BBC's Europe Editor
Plus Charles Tripp, emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern politics at SOAS is chair of the judges for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
Books on the shortlist announced this week are:
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton
Divided, Racism, Medicine and why we Need to DeColonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics and its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
The winner of the prize of £25,000 will be announced on October 22nd 2024. And Free Thinking will be looking at some of the other non fiction book prize shortlists over episodes this Autumn
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You can find past episodes of Free Thinking available on BBC Sounds and as the BBC Arts & Ideas podcast
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