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JEREMY PAXMAN: I freely confess this is difficult because I don't
like to kick a man when he's down, but this is the most spectacular fall from
grace....
JONATHAN AITKEN: That's certainly true. Of course, I'm full of regrets. It was
sheer misguided arrogance.
PAXMAN: You thought you could get away with lying in court, and furthermore, and
this is what people find most difficult about your case, getting your teenage
daughter to lie for you.
AITKEN: This was by far my most shameful mistake (pause) I can only say time and
time again, meo culpa, I was wrong.
PAXMAN: You describe being with your son and you implicitly said to him that he
might be better off if you killed yourself. What sort of a father does that to
a son?
AITKEN: Steady on, I make it clear that I never really thought of suicide (pause)
but the world has changed and I've changed. People now talk much more openly about
their inner feelings and thoughts and let it all hang out. I myself, only a few
years ago, was a deep-frozen product of the church reticent. Now, because of changes,
I think it is better to talk these things through openly.
PAXMAN: This book of yours turns on religious experiences. You describe a Damascene
experience in which you heard a voice and your Rolex watch stopped at that very
moment. You don't believe God speaks to you through a Rolex watch, do you?
AITKEN: No, I don't. I would be almost disappointed if you as Britain's highest-paid
professional cynic didn't make some sceptical noises about passages in the book
PAXMAN: Highest....?
AITKEN:..... those who make spiritual journeys feel some communication of the
soul.
PAXMAN: I can take your comment, I don't think one should belittle personal religious
beliefs.
AITKEN: Oh, thank you very much.
Trains by Toby Litt (1996)
from "Adventures In Capitalism"
Oedipus at Last by Giles
Deleuze and Felix Guattari from "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia"
(1972)
Georges Bataille - The
Labyrinth (1930)
Mr Kipling by Toby Litt
(1996) from "Adventures In Capitalism"
Raymond Aron - The Industrial
Society (1968)
Philosophy as a Revolutionary
Weapon - an interview with Louis Althusser, conducted by Maria Antonietta Macciocchi
(February, 1968)
CONTRADICTION AND
OVERDETERMINATION by LOUIS ALTHUSSER (1962)
A GENERAL VIEW OF POSITIVISM
by AUGUSTE COMTE (1856)
BEYOND PHILOSOPHY by
UTE BUBLITZ (1998)
ELEMENTS OF SEMIOLOGY
by ROLAND BARTHES (1964)
GOD AND THE STATE by
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN (1872)
INTRODUCTION TO THE READING
OF HEGEL (ON DIALECTIC) by ALEXANDRE KOJEVE (1934)
CAMBRIDGE LECTURES ON
INTUITIONISM by L.E.J. BROUWER (1951)
LANGUAGE AND MIND by
NOAM CHOMSKY (1968)
MIND AND BODY by ALFRED
ADLER (1931)
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS
OF PHYSICS by RUDOLPH CARNAP (1966)
THE ABC OF COMMUNISM
by BUKHARIN & PREOBRAZHENSKY (1919)
PSYCHOLOGY FROM AN
EMPIRICAL STANDPOINT by FRANZ BRENTANO (1874)
THE CULTURE INDUSTRY
by THEODOR ADORNO & MAX HORKHEIMER (1947)
INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND
SEX by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1949)
THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
by GUY DE BORD (1967)
TRANSFORMATIONS by DRUCILLA
CORNELL (1993)
LINGUISTICS AND GRAMMATOLOGY
by JACQUES DERRIDA (1967)
THE QUESTION OF CERTAINTY
by JOHN DEWEY (1929)
CONVERSATION BETWEEN D'ALEMBERT
AND DIDEROT(1769)
PHENOMENA OF THE UNIVERSE
by FRANCIS BACON (1607)
THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN
KNOWLEDGE by BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY (1710)
INTRODUCTION
TO THE HUMAN SCIENCES by WILHELM DILTHEY (1883)
PRAGMATISM
AND SOCIOLOGY (LECTURES) by EMILE DURKHEIM (1914)
MARXISM AND FREEDOM:
MAO PERVERTS LENIN by RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA (1957)
PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION:
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE - OUTSIDER LOOKING IN by RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA (1973)
PHILOSOPHY
AND REVOLUTION: NEW PASSIONS AND NEW FORCES by RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA (1973)
ON HEGEL
AND SHELLING by FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1841)
THE WRETCHED
OF THE EARTH by FRANTZ FANON (1959)
AGAINST METHOD
by PAUL FEYERABEND (1975)
FROM SPECTRES
OF MARX by JACQUES DERRIDA (1994)
(UNTIMELY) CRITIQUES
FOR A RED FEMINISM by TERESA EBERT (1995)
THE
ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE by MICHEL FOUCAULT (1969)
NEW INTRODUCTORY
LECTURES ON PSYCHOANALYSIS (FINAL LECTURE: WELTANSCHAUUNG by SIGMUND FREUD (1932)
THE
METHODOLOGY OF POSITIVE ECONOMICS by MILTON FRIEDMAN (1953)
CHARACTER
AND SOCIAL PROCESS: AN APPENDIX TO "THE FEAR OF FREEDOM" by ERICH FROMM (1942)
THE
MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOUNDATION OF MATHEMATICS IN LIGHT OF PHILOSOPHY by
KURT GODEL (1961)
THE
IDEA OF THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE AS SOCIAL THEORY by JURGEN HABERMAS (1968)
EXISTENCE
AND BEING by MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1949)
AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF PHENOMENOLOGY by MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1927)
THE
HISTORY OF QUANTUM THEORY: FROM "PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY" by WERNER HEISENBERG
(1958)
THE COPENHAGEN
INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM THEORY: FROM "PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY" by WERNER HEISENBERG
(1958)
LECTURES
ON PHILOSOPHY by LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (1932-33)
THE FACTS
OF PERCEPTION by HERMANN HELMHOLTZ (1878)
ON
KANT - THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY (FROM LOGIC) by G.W.F. HEGEL (1817/30)
THE FOUNDATIONS
OF MATHEMATICS by DAVID HILBERT (1927)
ON CAUSE AND EFFECT
(FROM AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING) by DAVID HUME (1772)
VYGOTSKY'S
TOOL-AND-RESULT METHODOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY (FROM LEV VYGOTSKY - REVOLUTIONARY
SCIENTIST) by FRED NEWMAN AND LOIS HOLZMAN
THE
ORGANISATION OF HEGEL'S LOGIC: BEING, ESSENCE, CONCEPT (FROM LOGIC AND EXISTENCE)
by JEAN HYPPOLITE (1952)
THE UNITY OF
THE ABSTRACT AND THE CONCRETE AS A LAW OF THOUGHT (FROM THE DIALECTICS OF THE
ABSTRACT AND THE CONCRETE IN MARX'S CAPITAL) by E.V. ILYENKOV
INTRODUCTION
TO DIALECTICAL LOGIC (FROM ELEVEN ESSAYS) by E.V. ILYENKOV (1974)
FIRST AND FOURTH
LECTURES ON SOUND AND MEANING (FROM LECTURES ON SOUND AND MEANING) by ROMAN JAKOBSON
(1942)
SECOND LECTURE:
THE MEANING OF PRAGMATISM (FROM A NEW NAME FOR SOME OLD WAYS OF THINKING) by WILLIAM
JAMES (1904/6)
THE BASIC POSTULATES
OF ANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY (FROM MODERN MAN IN SEARCH OF A SOUL) by CARL JUNG (1933)
ON MY PHILOSOPHY
(FROM EXISTENTIALISM FROM DOSTOYEVSKY TO SARTRE, WALTER KAUFMAN [ed]) by KARL
JASPERS (1941)
PERSONS
AND EXPERIENCE (FROM THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE) by R.D. LAING (1967)
(TWO SECTIONS
FROM CHAPTER ONE OF) POSTMODERNISM, OR, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM
by FREDERIC JAMESON (1991)
INTRODUCTION
TO CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON by IMMANUEL KANT (1787)
THE PROBLEM OF THE STRUCTURE
OF SOCIAL ACTION by TALCOTT PARSONS (1937)
THE
ANTINOMIES OF BOURGEOIS THOUGHT by GEORG LUKACS (1923)
DISNEYWORLD
COMPANY by JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1996)
FEMININITY
BETWEEN GOODNESS AND ACT by SLAVOJ ZIZEK (1999)
HOWLINGS
IN FAVOUR OF SADE by GUY DEBORD (1952)
HOW
THE "MARXISTS" BURIED MARX by CYRIL SMITH (1998)
HYSTERICIZING
THE MILLENIUM by JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1992)
INTRODUCTION
TO THE CONCEPT OF DREAD by SOREN KIERKEGAARD (1844)
SEMINAR
ON THE PURLOINED LETTER by JACQUES LACAN
LE FACTEUR
DE LA VERITE (A REPLY TO LACAN'S SEMINAR ON THE PURLOINED LETTER) by JACQUES DERRIDA
NO REPRIEVE
FOR SARAJEVO by JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1994)
CORRECTING
MISTAKEN IDEAS IN THE PARTY speech delivered by MAO TSE-TUNG
PATAPHYSICS
OF THE YEAR 2000 by JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1992)
PLASTIC
SURGERY FOR THE OTHER by JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1994)
PURE
INDUCTION (FROM TREATISE ON PROBABILITY) by JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES (1920)
AN ESSAY ON
RADICAL THOUGHT by JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1994)
SECTION
FIVE OF THE MATERIALIST CONCEPTION OF HISTORY by KARL KAUTSKY (1927)
STORY
OF THE EYE BY LORD AUCH by GEORGES BATAILLE (1928-1967)
STRUCTURAL
ANALYSIS IN LINGUISTICS AND IN ANTHROPOLOGY by CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS (1958)
THAWING OF THE
EAST by JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1992)
THE DISCOURSE
OF HISTORY by ROLAND BARTHES (1967)
WHY
IS IT THAT RED POLITICAL POWER CAN EXIST IN CHINA? speech given by MAO-TSE TUNG
on October 5, 1928
THE LESBIAN SESSION
by SLAVOJ ZIZEK (1998)
THE ABSENCE
OF THE BOOK by MAURICE BLANCHOT (1981)
