Regaining Nuance
In this series, Oliver Burkeman has discovered the reasons why nuance is declining in the modern age. For the New Year, he wants to find out how we could restore it.
In this series, Oliver Burkeman has discovered the reasons why nuance is declining in the modern age. For the New Year, he wants to find out how we could restore it.
He speaks to Naomi Baron about how we can use language to know ourselves better, and so protect ourselves against forces that would simplify our views of the world.
And he continues his conversation with Susan Nieman, about the need to break away from simple views of the world, in order to face the horrors humans can do to one another, rather than dismissing them.
And he sits down with Richard Holloway, writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh, to find out about how groups of people can evolve their thinking as the world changes, and discovers that even Jesus teaches to break away from beliefs that make us hostile to fellow human beings, even if that means breaking from codes laid down by God.
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Professor Susan Neiman
Professor Naomi Baron
Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World' and the upcoming ' How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio'
Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer,听听补苍诲听. He was the听听from 1986 to 2000 and听听from 1992 to 2000.
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Some of his books include, Beyond Belief, Looking in the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning, and most recently Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe.
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- New Year's Day 2021 13:4591热爆 Radio 4
- Sat 5 Feb 2022 05:4591热爆 Radio 4
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