Podcast Episodes
Back to Search42 | Going Beyond the Pleasure Principle with Freud
Season 1 Episode 42
In this episode we talk psychoanalytic theory and practice. With Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle as our touchstone, we get speculative about hu…
3 years, 10 months ago
41 | James Boggs and the Problem of Rights under Capitalism
Season 1 Episode 41
In this episode we discuss James Boggs’s 1963 The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook. We talk about Boggs’s materialist concep…
3 years, 10 months ago
40 Teaser | What is Liberalism? Part I. John Locke's Second Treatise of Government
Season 1 Episode 40
In this episode we kick off our new series called “What is Liberalism?” with private property, conquest, and a discussion about John Locke’s apologia…
3 years, 10 months ago
39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
Season 1 Episode 39
In this episode we discuss the work of György Lukács, focusing on the reification essay from his seminal 1923 book History and Class Consciousness. W…
3 years, 11 months ago
38 | Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Carl Schmitt and the Present
Season 1 Episode 38
In this episode, we discuss the infamous Nazi jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt, with particular focus on his 1923 book The Crisis of Par…
3 years, 11 months ago
37 Teaser | What’s the ‘Structural’ in ‘Structural Injustice’?: Iris Marion Young and Political Philosophy
Season 1 Episode 37
What do we mean when we call something a ‘structural injustice’? In this episode, we take up some of Iris Marion Young’s work and ask what makes the …
4 years ago
36 | What is Utopia? Part II. Plato's Republic (with Owen Alldritt)
Season 1 Episode 36
In this episode, we talk with Owen Alldritt about justice. We come to Plato’s defense against the Western philosophical canon, mostly in spite of our…
4 years ago
35 | Moral Luck and Pedagogy (with Aaron Rabinowitz)
Season 1 Episode 35
In this episode, we talk with Aaron Rabinowitz of Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space about the paradoxes of moral luck, the problematic natur…
4 years, 1 month ago
34 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part IV: Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno and Horkheimer
Season 1 Episode 34
In this episode we talk about Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, focusing on their notion of reason as abstractive domination and th…
4 years, 1 month ago
33 | (Un)Learning How to Do Politics with Hannah Arendt
Season 1 Episode 33
In this episode we discuss what distinguishes politics from other aspects of human existence by looking at Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition and “R…
4 years, 2 months ago