Heidegger and Existentialism with Bryan Magee (1977)

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We lack the quality these men possess so effortlessly and genuinely. No politics no hidden agenda just a meaningful and polite conversation

TV in 1977 differs from TV in 2017... This "Modern Philosophy" series is great.

William Barrett was my phil. prof at NYU. Thanks for posting.

Hearing a guy with a Brooklyn accent talk about Heidegger is a trip man. LOL

Magee is a wonderful interviewer, as well as writer. His " Wagner and Philosophy" is one of the very best books on Wagner. As for Barrett, I keep coming back to " Irrational Man" since I first picked it up at Kennedy in New York in the sixties.

William Barret is the author of the brilliant book "The Irrational Man" with which he introduced existentialism in the United States of America. i recommend everybody who is interested in existentialism to read this book. It is simply the best on this subject.

The quality of this video from 40 years ago is amazing.

An excerpt from Bryan’s ‘Making the Most of it’ (2018) If it could be revealed to me for certain that life is meaningless, and that my lot when I die will be timeless oblivion, and I were then asked: “Knowing these things, would you, if given the choice, still choose to have been born?”, my answer would be a shouted “Yes!” I have loved living. Even if the worst-case scenario is the true one, what I have had has been infinitely better than nothing. In spite of what has been wrong with my life, and in spite of what has been wrong with me, I am inexpressibly grateful to have lived. It is terrible and terrifying to have to die, but even the prospect of eternal annihilation is a price worth paying for being alive.

I listen to this instead of music while working, Both voices so pleasant.

Brilliant stuff and great to have this reminder of proper work from the BBC. Bryan Magee should have had more credit for this and his other series - Modern Philosophy and The Great Philosophers.

Beyan magee states his points more clear and touchable and it's such a pleasure to listen to them talking together.

Heidegger, when asked by Deyfuss (visting Heidegger in Germany), what he thought about Being and Nothingness, Heidegger answered, according to Dreyfuss, that he thought Sartre's Being and Nothingness was "Dreck" ('muck'). The reason was, of course that it was cartesian as it could be. Quite correctly Barrett characterised Being and Nothingness therefore as a "melodrama between two cartesian consciousnesses".

i really love youtube

I'm an ordinary 60 something year old and find this programme fascinating... I wish we had similar today (2024). Sadly today we just have celebrity rubbish..

Excellent interview, their Dasein's continues to exist in their printed writings and videos. Thank you

And look at TV in 2020....I love this series....

well i must confess that it was an amusing and interesting interview to watch.. I myself don't know nearly anything about philosophy and I actually don't enjoy reading such books.. but this was really good man..

@manufacturing intellect. So happy i ran into your channel. Great work! Highly appreciated.

We're thrown into the world and ask what's everyone doing and they say can't you see were walking around in a circle. So you say, well I guess I better join them they seem to know what's going on. Thus we suffer from existential perplexity. Equanimity through meditation is the beginning... .