Every month, a group of academics, columnists and philosophers dissect a phrase that's become an intellectual cliché in order to analyse its true meaning
Meghan Sutherland: The Big Ideas: The Society of the Spectacle urges us to rethink the relationship between activism, philosophy and pleasure in everyday life
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen: The Big Ideas: Nietzschean high-school killers have obscured the interpretation of 'God is dead' as an opening, not a closing, of minds
The political message of Nietzsche's 'God is dead'
Lesley Chamberlain
Lesley Chamberlain: The Big Ideas: Nietzsche's declaration was not an atheist broadside in today's context, but an attack on the link between reason and divinity
Stuart Jeffries:The Big Ideas: Kittler, who died this year, suggested we weren't masters of our technological domain, but rather that we were its pawns
Schumacher was no radical – if you curtail growth, living standards drop
Daniel Ben-Ami
Daniel Ben-Ami: The Big Ideas: By suggesting it's better to be economically poorer and spiritually richer, Schumacher ignores the link between growth and wellbeing
Small is beautiful … but Schumacher's economics of scale runs deeper
Andrew Simms
Andrew Simms: The Big Ideas: EF Schumacher was interested in appropriateness of scale, not smallness – a challenge the 'too big to fail' banks should heed
Is big beautiful? Brian Ulrich's decaying shopping malls - in pictures
In this month's Big Ideas podcast, photographer Brian Ulrich discusses the relevance of EF Schumacher's notion 'small is beautiful' to his own work. Ulrich spent eight years travelling the US with his camera, taking pictures of so-called 'dead malls'
Small is beautiful – an economic idea that has sadly been forgotten
Madeleine Bunting
Madeleine Bunting: The Big Ideas: It is chilling that so many thinkers, politicians and academics have signed up to the deadening consensus of globalisation
The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'
Economist Andrew Simms and Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of Schumacher's 'Buddhist economics'
