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Back to Search108 TEASER | Friedrich Nietzsche on Learning How to Live in a Dying Culture
In this episode, we tackle Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. In this book, Nietzsche diagnoses the cultural pathologies of a Europe that no…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gil is Teaching a Class on Kant's First Critique in Chicago
You read the title! Next month, Gil is teaching a class on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason at the Goethe Institute in downtown Chicago through the Bro…
1 year, 2 months ago
107 | How Labor Can Win w/ Eric Blanc
In this episode, we discuss Eric Blanc’s new book about the strategies re-building U.S. labor today, as well as how they can translate across movemen…
1 year, 3 months ago
106 | Karl Polanyi and the Critique of Market Society
Season 1 Episode 106
In this episode, we discuss the work of brilliant heterodox economist Karl Polanyi. We talk about his criticisms of neoclassical orthodoxy, his argum…
1 year, 3 months ago
105 TEASER | Fredric Jameson: Marxist Criticism and the Role of Theory
Season 1 Episode 105
In this episode, we discuss the work of the late, great Fredric Jameson. Basing ourselves on his Marxism and Form, The Political Unconscious, and Arc…
1 year, 3 months ago
104 | Does History Have a Repetition Compulsion?
Season 1 Episode 104
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Black Reconstruction, and The Black Jacobins. What do these three texts have in common? They all aim to m…
1 year, 4 months ago
103 | Habermania w/ Dr. Steven Klein
Season 1 Episode 103
Another week, another German philosopher. This time, Steven Klein joins us to discuss the ideas and legacy of one Jürgen Habermas. We talk about his …
1 year, 4 months ago
102 TRAILER | The Heidegger Episode
Here, we finally deliver on our longstanding threat to do an episode all about influential philosopher Martin Heidegger. We give him credit where it’…
1 year, 5 months ago
101 | Free Time Under Capitalism
Season 1 Episode 101
In this episode, we discuss Theodor Adorno’s essay “Free Time”, in which the critical theorist really lets his cantankerous old man flag fly. He argu…
1 year, 5 months ago
100 | Special Q+A Livestream!
Season 1 Episode 100
For this very special 100th episode of the show, we set aside a few hours to answer questions submitted by listeners! We livestreamed the session on …
1 year, 6 months ago