Intellectual legacy: the battle for which ideas? – Video

Posted: January 8, 2013 at 6:46 am




Intellectual legacy: the battle for which ideas?
Andrew Keen, entrepreneur; founder, Audiocafe.com; author, Digital Vertigo: how today #39;s online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us Dr Ivan Krastev, chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Bulgaria; founding member, European Council on Foreign Relations Dr Ellie Lee, reader in social policy, University of Kent, Canterbury; director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies Rob Riemen, writer and cultural philosopher; founder president, Netherlands-based Nexus Institute; author, Nobility of Sprit: a forgotten ideal and The Eternal Return of Fascism Chair: Claire Fox, director, Institute of Ideas; panellist, BBC Radio 4 #39;s Moral Maze #39;Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels #39;. AC Grayling Society seems woefully lacking in Big Ideas, and we seem to crave new thinking. In Britain, great hopes rest on the legacy of the Olympics, but however inspiring the sporting excellence we all witnessed, is it realistic that a summer of feel-good spectacle can resolve deep-rooted cultural problems, from widespread disdain for competitition to community fragmentation? In America, Mitt Romney has pledged to pit substantial ideas against the empty #39;yes, we can #39; sloganeering of Barack Obama, with his running mate Paul Ryan dubbed the #39;intellectual #39; saviour of the Republican Party, but can they really deliver? Europe, once the home of Enlightenment salons, is ...

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