Real conviviality
Video of my talk at MAD4, Copenhagen, on the true meaning of conviviality.
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Food for Thought
A PHILOSOPHER’S FEAST – CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL, 4 OCTOBER. An ethically sourced feast of food, wine and philosophy with myself and wine philosopher[…]
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WIMBLEDON BOOKFEST – 3 OCTOBER. Took part in a discussion with David Edmonds chaired by Dr Marie Adams.
ReadThe Shrink & The Sage meet Ranulph Fiennes
Fiennes’s inner psyche appears to be not so much a closed book as a blank page. It’s not that Fiennes, now 70, isn’t a charming and engaging conversationalist. It’s just that he doesn’t appear to do introspection and says he’s bad at “hypotheses or inward-looking philosophy”. Ask him a question that invites him to look inwards, and he answers it with a story about something he has done. It is as though for him Hannah Arendt’s distinction between the active and contemplative life is absolute.
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