David Runciman and Pankaj Mishra: Histories of Ideas

David Runciman’s podcast series 'Talking Politics: History of Ideas' provides introductions to the most important thinkers and theories behind modern politics, helping to make sense of our predicament through the revelatory ideas of Hobbes and Hayek, Fanon and Fukuyama, Bentham and De Beauvoir.
To mark the conclusion of the second series, David is joined by Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger and Bland Fanatics, among other books, for a conversation about those subjects of David’s that Pankaj has also written about extensively - including Gandhi, Rousseau and Nietzsche - alongside an alternative canon of non-Western theorists of politics and crisis.
Find the History of Ideas podcasts here: www.talkingpoliticspodcast.co...
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[@MyLieu]

Great conversation. I hope you do bring back "Talking Politics" I've listened to each episode several times and need more!

[@kvchidambaram2510]

I read the novel Romantics of Pankaj ji. This was after I saw you referred to by Elif Shafak who was assisted by Pankaj and Shamsi for her novel Architect's Apprentice.

[@josephmaj1234]

Did they ever decide on a list of people from now who deserve to be on a history of ideas series in the future?

[@kvchidambaram2510]

What is your take on kirkegaard's points of view and sHupenheur

[@paulheydarian1281]

I hope you weren't expecting a response anytime soon, but you asked a very difficult question.

[@andrewburridge5958]

I'm reading his book now and finding his attempt to connect current extreme and populist movements to the West, capitalism and Enlightenment frustrating. I don't think I'm being unfair to say he links ISIS with Brexit supporters, which is hysterical. Over the page he scoffs at those of us who say (of ISIS) "we, liberal, democratic, are not like these savages at all". And yet we are not, and we should say so.

[@ronbr1000]

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[@ronbr1000]

Talks a lot without saying anything