The Sublime and The Beautiful
Since the 18th century, after two millenniums of relative harmony, the Sublime and the Beautiful have gone their own way. The Sublime manifests itself by preference as intensity, silence, [...]
M.F. Freedom and Knowledge
1970, Paris. My first encounter with Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a confrontation rather than a meeting. We discussed his participation in a TV debate with Noam Chomsky. In 1971 I travel to [...]
Islam Unknown
Fons Elders, philosopher, historian and emeritus professor in Theory of World Views meets eight Muslim scholars and intellectuals from Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Turkey. They teach [...]
Philosophers in Debate
Philosophers in Debate comprises the entire text of the TV-project PHILOSOPHERS with debates between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, Alfred Ayer and Arne Naess, Leszek Kolakowski and Henri [...]
Islam Unknown (DVD)
Islam Unknown is a collection of eight conversations with unconventional Muslim intellectuals. In each episode, eclectic Dutch philosopher Fons Elders engages the thinkers in probing discussion [...]
Philosophers: Debates and Dialogues (DVD)
In 1971, a Dutch initiative called the International Philosophers Project brought together the leading thinkers of the day for a series of one-on-one debates. The participants included [...]