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Simon Glendinning hosts

Author, A Very Short Introduction to Derrida, Head of the European Institute, LSE

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Philosophy in the Bedroom


For 250 years de Sade's writing was outlawed. Yet Fifty Shades has turned the exploration of pain and pleasure into an oddly commonplace entertainment. Do these pursuits embed undesirable power relations or are they essential to our sexuality and a route to radical forms of ecstasy?
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Owning Ourselves: Are our bodies our property?
Owning Ourselves

Are our bodies our property?

Speakers: Anne Phillips, Brooke Magnanti, John Harris
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Strange Affects
Strange Affects and Collective Emotions

How do collective and individual emotions compare?

Speakers: Robert Eaglestone, Juliet Jacques, Kimberlé Crenshaw
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Family Futures

The rise of the post-nuclear family

Speakers: Diane Abbott, Catherine Hakim, Simon Heffer
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The End of Abundance?

For most of human history humans have had to contend with the scarcity of essen...

Speakers: Gideon Rachman, Harriet Lamb, Bonnie Greer, Christopher Hamilton

Biography

Simon Glendinning is Professor of European Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Director of the Forum for European Philosophy. His books include On Being With Others: Heidegger-Wittgenstein-Derrida (Routledge) and Derrida: A Short Introduction (OUP).