A World of Ideas

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In the information economy, where knowledge is currency and wisdom may be worthless, what does the modern citizen need to know? Do you have the ten big ideas you may need for a light cocktail party or a heavy date – or just for life in the 21st Century – at the ready?

The autodidact Chris Rohman has compiled a reference guide of ideas that stretches from Aristotle to Zoroastrianism, from the big bang to the Laffer Curve, from dialectical materialism to post structuralism. It’s a guide to the big thinkers from Foucault to Spinoza, Fromm to Seneca. From Shiites, Sikhs, Sunnis, Sophists and Sufis to field theory, game theory, queer theory and a theory of everything

We’re travelling across a world of ideas in the second hour of The Connection with Chris Rohmann, freelance writer and author of “A World of Ideas: A Dictionary of Important Theories, Concepts, Beliefs, and Thinkers.”
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)

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Chris Rohmann, freelance writer and author of “A World of Ideas: A Dictionary of Important Theories, Concepts, Beliefs, and Thinkers.”