Men of Ideas

Men of Ideas was a 1978 BBC television series presented by Bryan Magee. There were 15 episodes, in which Magee interviewed noted philosophers.

Overview

The first episode, "Introduction to Philosophy", saw a Magee in discussion with Isaiah Berlin. In subsequent episodes Magee discussed such topics as Marxist philosophy, the Frankfurt School, and modern Existentialism.

During the broadcast run, edited shorter versions of the discussions were published in The Listener magazine.[1] Extensively revised versions of the dialogues within the Men of Ideas series were published in a 1979 book of the same name,[2] now published under the title Talking Philosophy.[3] DVDs of the series are sold to academic institutions with the title Contemporary Philosophy.[4] Neither Men of Ideas nor Magee's 1987 series The Great Philosophers is available for purchase by home users but most of the episodes from both are freely available on YouTube.[5]

Noting that the series "attracted a steady one million viewers per show", The Daily Telegraph hailed the series, and its 1987 'sequel', for achieving "the near-impossible feat of presenting to a mass audience recondite issues of philosophy without compromising intellectual integrity or losing ratings."[6]

Neither this series nor Magee's 1987 series The Great Philosophers are available for purchase by home users—though most of the episodes from both are freely available on YouTube.[7]

Guests
  1. Isaiah Berlin on "Introduction to Philosophy"
  2. Charles Taylor on "Karl Marx"
  3. Herbert Marcuse on "Frankfurt School"
  4. William Barrett on "Martin Heidegger"
  5. Anthony Quinton on "Wittgenstein"
  6. A. J. Ayer on "Logical Positivism"
  7. Bernard Williams on “Linguistic Philosophy”
  8. R. M. Hare on "Moral Philosophy"
  9. Willard Van Orman Quine on "Quine"
  10. John Searle on "Philosophy of Language"
  11. Noam Chomsky on "Chomsky"
  12. Hilary Putnam on "Philosophy of Science"
  13. Ronald Dworkin on "Political Philosophy"
  14. Iris Murdoch on "Philosophy and Literature"
  15. Ernest Gellner on "Philosophy: The Social Context"

See also

References
  1. "Whatever happened to the public intellectual?". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  2. Snelgrove, David (1980). "Review of Men of Ideas". Journal of Thought. 15 (1): 103–104. ISSN 0022-5231. JSTOR 42590182.
  3. Magee, Bryan. (2001). Talking philosophy : dialogues with fifteen leading philosophers. Magee, Bryan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192854178. OCLC 47676350.
  4. "Contemporary Philosophy". Films Media Group. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  5. July 26th, in Philosophy |; Comments, 2019 4. "Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers". Open Culture. Retrieved 2019-08-01.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. Obituaries, Telegraph (2019-07-26). "Bryan Magee, author, broadcaster, MP and academic with an unsurpassed ability to render complex philosophical ideas easily digestible – obituary". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  7. "Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers". Open Culture. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
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