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OU on the BBC: Journeys In Thought - About The Series

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 21 Nov 2005
By The OpenLearn team
Journeys in Thought focuses on crucial turning points in the lives and thoughts of great philosophers. Each programme focuses on one location – a place...
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Marx: Biography

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 21 Nov 2005
By Jonathan Ree
Karl Marx spent only a few years in Paris (1843-1845) but it was a defiining period in his life. Jonathan Rée explains why.
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Kierkegaard

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 21 Nov 2005
By Jonathan Ree
Jonathan Rée shares his enthusiasm for the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
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Arendt

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 21 Nov 2005
By Jonathan Ree
Jonathan Rée introduces the philosophy of Hannah Arendt.
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Nietzsche Biography

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 21 Nov 2005
By Jonathan Ree
Jonathan Rée summarizes the life and work of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Rousseau

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 21 Nov 2005
By Jonathan Ree
Jonathan Rée introduces the life and work of the French Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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OU on the BBC: Journeys In Thought - Arendt In Jerusalem

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 25 Oct 2005
By The OpenLearn team
Jonathan Rée goes to Jerusalem, in the footsteps of Hannah Arendt.
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OU on the BBC: Journeys In Thought - Marx In Paris

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 24 Oct 2005
By The OpenLearn team
When Karl Marx arrived in Paris in 1843, having just married his sweetheart Jenny von Westphalen, he was already becoming notorious throughout Europe as a...
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OU on the BBC: Journeys In Thought - Nietzsche In Switzerland

OU on the BBC: Journeys In Thought - Nietzsche In Switzerland Copyrighted imageCredit: Mary Evans Picture Library
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 24 Oct 2005
By The OpenLearn team
Nietzsche is often remembered as a miserable polemicist who proclaimed the death of God, before embracing a horse and going crazy in Turin . In...
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OU on the BBC: Journeys In Thought - Wittgenstein In Ireland

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 24 Oct 2005
By The OpenLearn team
In the spring of 1948, Ludwig Wittgenstein abandoned his post as Chair of Philosophy at Trinity College Cambridge in search of solitude and simplicity.
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