Walter Benjamin
May 8, 202658m
Peter E. Gordon Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300289459/walter-benjamin/
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PhilosophyPodcasts.Org
Hosted by August Baker · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 72 episodes
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mainly interviews with authors, mainly university presses.
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The character sketch as philosophy. Katie Ebner-Landy.
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Marcel Proust with Stanford professor Joshua Landy. Time, memories, literature.
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Caleb Smith. Distraction and discipline.
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Bernard Mandeville, 1670-1733.
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This concise book introduces phenomenology in its rigor--and its breadth: from philosophical foundation to application in psychology, psychiatry, qualitative research, critical theory, sociology, etc.
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Dan Zahavi Phenomenology: The basics, 2nd Edition Two footnotes to the podcast. 1. Walter Hopp's beloved Boston University course is distilled in his Phenomenology: A Contemporary Introduction (2020), an excellent compan
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One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Owen Flanagan, was for many years an addict. He synthesizes in this book both the science and phenomenology of addiction.
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Until now there were three schools of thought on how best to live one's life (Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). Agnes Callard proposes a fourth: Socratic.
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Agnes Callard Open Socrates "[C]harming, intelligent…Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for
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Wouter Kusters is a philosopher who suffered two psychotic breaks in his life. This book also at times degenerates into mad thinking. The reader's mind follows Kusters descent.philosophy), the book also attempts to go mad itself, to be a mad text.
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Wouter Kusters A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044288/a-philosophy-of-madness/
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disavowal
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turkeys
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anxiety, wonder
Oct 11, 202449m
Maria Balaska Anxiety and wonder On being human Description At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismisse
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liberalism
Oct 11, 202451mEp. 54S1
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Liberalism By revealed preference, Prof. McCloskey is our favorite scholar to talk with. This is our third conversation with her. Today, we discuss two working papers on liberalism.
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human/animal
May 20, 202444m
Sharon Patricia Holland an other In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also
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