Alongside the celebrated names, from Wedgwood to William Morris, it also explores the work of the anonymous designers responsible for prosaic but classic designs for cast-iron cooking pots to sheep shears - harbingers of a breed of industrially produced objects culminating in the Model T Ford. All men have illegitimate kids! Archived from on 26 April 2012. Even when he was entirely sane, Nietzsche said that bad would be done in his name. A serious student of philosophy will be in no haste to accept or reject this doctrine; but he will see in it one of the chief attitudes which speculative thought may take, feeling that it is not for an individual, nor for an age, to pronounce upon a fundamental question of philosophy. Featuring desert war veteran Peter Gudgin and designer Michael Graves.
Ah, the familiar Marxist argumentation style of tossing up a variety of arguments up to see what sticks I call it the Socialist Harangue : Oh, poor Marx! Designer Verner Panton pursued the seemingly impossible dream of a chair made from a seamless piece of plastic while Joe Colombo proposed the Austin Powers-style 'cabriolet bed', complete with built-in cigarette lighter and stereo. It was also chosen as Book of the Year in several publications. Genius of the Modern World: Season 1 Season 1 of Genius of the Modern World has 3 episodes. Bettany Hughes : You know he has slept with somebody who's not his wife; she's pregnant. Drawing on archaeology and expert opinion, Bettany investigates this inspiring figure. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
He takes the rap and by rap I mean the thing I just claimed wasn't a big deal a moment ago. This was not Marx's finest hour. For more information please see Meet the Philosophers How does what you say come to mean something? Bettany Hughes : so who takes responsibility for all this? And Engels, he takes the rap for his best friend. And yet perhaps the blame for his misuse is not entirely Elizabeth's. In this second episode, Bettany investigates the revolutionary ideas of Socrates. She has also been awarded the 2012 for services to history by the , of which she is an honorary fellow. Hughes has written two books on Ancient Greek subjects.
Occasionally he writes in third person when there was no good reason not to write in first person. It was accepted in their social circle. Bettany Hughes, a historian and author, takes viewers on a journey into the tumultuous times of late 19th century, when 3 particular intellectuals perfected their mind-boggling ideas. His philosophical quest led him to isolation and ultimately madness, but his ideas helped shape the intellectual landscape of the modern world. Having become disaffected by the intense pressure involved, his complete lack of talent and his superior's refusal to make use of his prehensile tail he quit to lead a simple but mostly contented life in the midwest.
His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable assumptions of religion, morality and science, yet, appropriated by the Nazis, his work is among the most devastatingly manipulated and misinterpreted in history. There were details brought out in the video that were very interesting. Hughes to many of the actual places of interest in the lives of these gentlemen, the narrator also interviews several leading scholars on the various aspects of their intellectual and personal life. Born in a chaotic, violent age, he believed that harmony could be restored through the example of the sage rulers of history. As with that series, this film was stymied by too restrictive a focus on giving a blow-by-blow account of a life, rather than on the intellectual achievement for which it is celebrated.
Have you grasped nothing of the reason why I am in the world? Nietzsche reversed that, 0:18:20 0:18:24 and saw instead that the individual somehow lost themselves in 0:18:24 0:18:29 the collective, and found in a group experience 0:18:29 0:18:32 an ecstatic transformational experience. Historian Bettany Hughes explores the minds of three of the greatest thinkers of the 19th century. Despite Marx's positive view of which I don't recall the episode mentioning there wasn't a comparable measuring of responsibility in the Marx episode. He was a victim in this and people were mad at him; he was suffering! Archived from on 14 April 2012. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more! A great innovator, he commandeered rituals and traditions of the past, to form a compelling philosophical vision. She helped around the house, she was a fellow radical and friend but, Marx slept with her and fathered an illegitimate son at the same time that Jenny was pregnant again.
From the desperate improvisation of the Sten gun, turned out in huge numbers by British toy-makers, to the deadly elegance of the all-wood Mosquito fighter-bomber, described as 'the finest piece of furniture ever made', the stories behind these products reveal how definitions of good design shift dramatically when national survival is at stake. Featuring Philippe Starck, Marc Newson, Jonathan Ive and Stephen Fry. And, when you finish watching, you feel as if you've learned something. They were trailblazers, whose radical ideas signaled a key change in human consciousness. She may not talk about every book Nietzsche ever produced but she also doesn't make an entire show about Thus Spake Zarathustra, either.
It was taken out of context! An illegitimate kid is no big deal! That is a task for a whole era to work out. Was his wife part of his social circle? I have begun by showing that tychism must give birth to an evolutionary cosmology, in which all the regularities of nature and of mind are regarded as products of growth, and to a -fashioned idealism which holds matter to be mere specialized and partially deadened mind. Because they are quite conventionally unconventional. Hughes has written and presented documentary films and series on both ancient and modern subjects for , , , , and. In Europe, the 'modern movement' promoted the virtues of the machine and the machine-made with theories and products like open-plan living, the fitted kitchen and tubular steel furniture which have become absorbed into the mainstream of the designed world.
Designers also played a decisive role in making the world-changing power of computer and digital technology available to the masses through the design of keyboards, the mouse and the 'desktop'. . I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse's Party. She is also an advisor to the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation which fosters large-scale collaborative projects between East and West. Former title Athens: the Truth about Democracy. Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
It arrived for online streaming on October 3, 2017. Hardly; however, they probably ranked among the most influential. Hughes is a long-standing patron and supporter of educational and campaigning charity , which has been promoting and teaching Latin and Greek in state schools since 2006. I have read all of Nietzsche several times. But the optimism of the era came to an abrupt end when concerns about the environmental impact of plastic came to the fore.