Films of Ideas: Wittgenstein w/Nikhil Krishnan
Dec 28, 2025•59 min•Season 16Ep. 250
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Episode description
The fourth episode in our season of live recordings from the Regent Street Cinema is about another film that explores the relationship between biography and philosophy: Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein (1993), which tells the story of an extraordinary life in a way that is both light and profound. David talks to writer and philosopher Nikhil Krishnan about Ludwig Wittengenstein’s ideas of war, science, truth, freedom, sexuality, language, loyalty and communism and how they are portrayed on screen. Does the life explain the ideas or do the ideas explain the life?
Next time: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind w/Beeban Kidron
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