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Stray reference to VN in a BBC radio 3 discussion about the West and the
Occident. (Orient??-DBJ)In talking about the soullessness of the West, writer
Ziauddin
Sardar says:
'I think the whole idea of the big soul that emerged in Russia in the
nineteenth century ... those people were nourished by what Nabokov
called a cocktail of Schlegel and Hegel with bitter drops of Feuerbach'.
Click on Wednesday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/nightwaves/index.shtml
(May not be up for very much longer - used archived for a week.)
Programme details:
16 February 2005
Wednesday 16 February 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Isabel Hilton with another extended Undercurrents debate where politics,
history, ideas and culture collide to reveal the real issues behind the
week's news.
Duration:
45 minutes
Programme Details
Next week, President Bush returns to Europe, a couple of years after one
of the most hostile receptions an American leader has ever met on this
side of the Atlantic. And it seems too much to hope that the visit will
heal the present rift between Europe and America. Night Waves:
Undercurrents cuts through the ongoing talk about this "Crisis of the
West" to investigate what lies beneath that longstanding but elusive
concept - "the West". Isabel Hilton will be joined by the philosopher
John Gray, contemporary historian Timothy Garton Ash and writer Ziauddin
Sardar to find out where, when and why this idea emerged and what use it
is to us now. And Isabel will also be joined from New York by Avishai
Margalit, co-author of Occidentalism: A Short History of
Anti-Westernism.
Join Isabel and her guests for Night Waves: Undercurrents live at
9.30pm, here on Radio 3.
Presenter: Isabel Hilton
Producer: Phil Tinline
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