TA: Cosmopolitanism Wed 12 Jan 2011




Thinking Allowed show

Summary: Laurie Taylor talks to David Held - Graham Wallace Professor of Political Science at the  London School of Economics about his philosophical and practical account of contemporary global politics from a cosmopolitan perspective. Laurie also talks to Steven Shapin - Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University about diatetics - a study of the relationship between our bodies, our selves, our place in the world and our knowledge of those things.