Ideas Matter: modernisation and nature in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Sixth lecture in series Psychology and Democracy from The Academy
2020 organised by Battle of Ideas (boi) charity.


Our focus in this podcast is Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H.
Lawrence. The novel was published in 1928, the period just after
the First World War when anticipation of future possibilities
coexisted with feelings of dread over the world to come. Against
a backdrop of fears over mass society, and intense interest in
conflicting dynamics of modernisation and tradition,
industrialisation and nature, we look at what Lawrence tells us
about inner turmoil in a shifting world.


Lecturer: Ella Whelan, co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival;
journalist, broadcaster and commentator; writer and presenter,
‘Girl Power RIP’, Radio 4


THE ACADEMY 2020: PSYCHOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY The Academy Online was
a mixture of lectures and seminars offering an opportunity to
place contemporary events in a historical and philosophical
context. The full programme and some background reading can be
found at theboi.co.uk/the-academy-online…logy-and-democracy


THE ACADEMY In the context of today’s instrumental approaches to
knowledge, The Academy summer school is a modest attempt to
demonstrate the value of scholarship, and of the worth of the
university as a place of free enquiry dedicated to the pursuit of
truth.


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when society is restricted by measures to tackle coronavirus. In
order to realise events such as the Academy Online, none of our
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IDEAS MATTER PODCAST Ideas Matter is a podcast that takes the
most important issues of our times and explores the ideas and
intellectual trends that have shaped where we are today.


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