03.09.10.

Introducing balloon debates at Foyles

YOU are in a hot air balloon and it is losing height rapidly. You need to get rid of TWO out of THREE other passengers.

Who would you choose?

The Introducing balloon debates are a series of discussions with expert authors from the Introducing series, defending intellectual viewpoints in front of an audience who votes to REMOVE one of them from a sinking hot air balloon...

All events are FREE and held at Foyles bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London

Tuesday 28th September

VOTE FOR THE WORLD’S MOST FASHIONABLE SOCIOLOGIST
Chris Horrocks - Jean Baudrillard
Chris Kul Want - Slavok Zizek
Nikolas Rose- Michel Foucault

Thursday 28th October

VOTE FOR PHILOSOPHY’S BIGGEST HITTER:
John Heaton - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Laurence Gane - Freidrich Nietzche
Chris Kul-Want - Immanuel Kant

Wednesday 24th November

VOTE FOR THE GREATEST LUCASIAN PROFESSOR
JP McEvoy - Stephan Hawking
Manjit Kumar - Isaac Newton
Graham Farmelo - Paul Dirac

SERIES CHAIR: John Farndon, author of The World’s Greatest idea: Fifty Ideas that Have Changed the World and Do You Think You’re Clever? The Oxbridge Questions

See more at Foyles' events page and email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve your place.