Philosophers and Ideas
The Philosophers and Ideas collection includes the following titles:
A Quest for MeaningTwo childhood friends take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and discover a way to bring about change.
A Sense of WonderRachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.
Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free MarketCapitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade. (Episode 1 of the Capitalism series)
Althusser, an Intellectual AdventureCentered around the only filmed interview ever given by acclaimed French philosopher Louis Althusser, who murdered his wife, Helene, a few weeks after the interview was given.
An Ecology of MindA daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist.
Antonio NegriTraces the biography and current relevance of this controversial moral and political philosopher, his work, and his contemporary role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement.
Crossing the StonesAn intimate biography of the Norwegian founder of deep ecology.
Derrida's ElsewhereAn exploration of the life and ideas of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century.
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly SurvivalA portrait of one of the most important living thinkers in the fields of feminism, science and technology.
Edward Said: The Last InterviewAn extended discussion with noted literary critic and Palestinian activist Edward Said filmed less than a year before his death.
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