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Colonialism
Colonialism by Nigel Biggar has been mentioned in 1 episode across 1 podcast (1 episode recommends it and 0 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Jordan Peterson (1 episode) on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast (1 episode).
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All right, everyone, we have been talking today with Professor Nigel Bigger, professor of Christian ethics, about his new book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' which hit the bestseller list in the UK and is now widely available in other English-speaking markets, and I presume will be translated quite widely as the months progress.
Jordan Peterson · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · May 2023 Listen at 1:59:13 Why people recommend it
Colonialism by Nigel Biggar, officially titled Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, is a controversial non-fiction book that reassesses the history of the British Empire and offers a critical moral evaluation of imperial practices. Jordan Peterson extensively discussed the book with its author, professor of Christian ethics Nigel Biggar, on an episode of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast in May 2023. Peterson highlighted that the book had successfully hit the bestseller lists in the United Kingdom and was expanding into broader English-speaking markets. Throughout the episode, Peterson commended the work's controversial nature and walked listeners through the structural framework of the book, noting that it features eight distinct chapters, each organized around a specific moral question regarding the legacy of the British Empire. Peterson and Biggar explored these questions to separate perceptions of good from evil within historical colonialism.
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Jordan Peterson All right, everyone, we have been talking today with Professor Nigel Bigger, professor of Christian ethics,… 1
“his controversial book colonialism a moral Reckoning was recently published and hit the non-fiction bestseller list in the UK”
“All right, so there are eight chapters in the book and you associated each of the chapters with a question. I thought we would just go through the chapters and the questions.”
“All right, everyone, we have been talking today with Professor Nigel Bigger, professor of Christian ethics, about his new book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' which hit the bestseller list in the UK and is now widely available in other English-speaking markets, and I presume will be translated quite widely as the months progress.”
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“His controversial book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' was recently published and hit the non-fiction bestseller list in the UK.”
“So, Nigel, we're going to talk today about your book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' which has just been released a few weeks ago and, as I understand, is doing quite well.”
“So in my book, tell me if I'm wrong, when I'm coming to a judgment about the British Empire, I don't shy away from the really bad bits. Insofar as I identify as British, those are painful for me to admit, but I do admit them.”
“So I applied that same thing to myself; when I come across material in history that I read about that is negative about the British Empire, I report it in my book. There are a number of pages that deal with the 150 years of abundant involvement in slave trading and slavery in, I think it's the second chapter.”
“I've read them, and on the whole, I mean, are there a number of cases in the book where I lay out what they say and then I take it apart? Most of the time, in my view, it falls apart, but as I said, the reader can see what I'm doing exactly, and if the reader thinks I'm not”
“in some ways Jordan the book I've just written in colonialism I feel that all that I've written that probably is the book I was born to write”
“On the inside cover of my book, I insisted on having a photograph of young Chinese student protesters in Hong Kong with a placard that said 'Hong Kong is British' to make that point.”