To be is to participate
For Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, a person is not self-contained, but the outcome of a lifelong process of living with others: we before I. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through ...
1 Touko 21min
The Ethiopian running secret
One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that h...
30 Huhti 20min
Hunting ‘Man the Hunter’
For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many meanings. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through ...
28 Huhti 21min
The Black executioner
Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through es...
27 Huhti 22min
White-collar sweatshops
How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work?. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make s...
25 Huhti 32min
Does reading do us any good?
Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
24 Huhti 29min
No nature without fear
Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays t...
23 Huhti 30min
Justice is geometric
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays th...
21 Huhti 23min
