Chair Sally Sedgwick Featured on BBC’s In Our Time, Talks Hegel & History
The Department is proud to share that Professor and Chair Sally Sedgwick was featured this week as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time!
Professor Sedgwick was featured as a guest on the episode “Hegel’s Philosophy of History,” alongside Robert Stern (prof. of philosophy at Sheffield University), Stephen Houlgate (prof. of philosophy at University of Warwick), and host Melvyn Bragg. The show is described thus:
“Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) on history. Hegel, one of the most influential of the modern philosophers, described history as the progress in the consciousness of freedom, asking whether we enjoy more freedom now than those who came before us. To explore this, he looked into the past to identify periods when freedom was moving from the one to the few to the all, arguing that once we understand the true nature of freedom we reach an endpoint in understanding. That end of history, as it’s known, describes an understanding of freedom so far progressed, so profound, that it cannot be extended or deepened even if it can be lost.”
In Our Time is a live radio discussion series hosted on BBC, as well as a podcast, that has explored topics of history, culture, philosophy, religion, and science since 1998. It is one of the most popular programs of its format and contributes to the international sharing of knowledge and discussion with over two million listeners a week.
Click here to listen to the episode now. The podcast version of this episode is forthcoming.
Congratulations, Professor Sedgwick!