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Back to SearchEpisode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
Episode 262
David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil which contain some of Nietzsche's best drive-bys on philosophers l…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 261: Death of the Author
Episode 261
What's the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Does it matter what Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark thin…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
Episode 260
David and Tamler take the first excursion into the work of Haruki Murakami and talk about his short story "Sleep." A thirty-year-old woman, the wife …
3 years, 4 months ago
Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)
Episode 259
The great Paul Bloom returns to the show to explore the many mysteries of Todd Field's 2022 film "Tár." Is it a ghost story? A movie about cancel cul…
3 years, 5 months ago
Mystic Peeza
Episode 258
David and Tamler talk about William James' chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of Religious Experience." What defines a mystical experience…
3 years, 5 months ago
Aural Fixation
Episode 257
David and Tamler deliver a PODCAST episode, one of many that comes from the INTERNET, that you'll probably listen to through Air Pods or some other k…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Right to Punish?
Episode 256
Here's an episode with something for both of us – a healthy serving of Kantian rationalism for David with a dollop of Marxist criminology for Tamler.…
3 years, 6 months ago
Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
Episode 255
David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and thrilling novel with echoes of Borges, Plato, C.S. …
3 years, 6 months ago
Nobody's Parfit
Episode 254
Tamler's earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self to that promise, which shows how unconvinced David wa…
3 years, 7 months ago
Tarkovsky's Starchild
Episode 253
It's the episode that Tamler has been waiting for – a long deep dive into Andrei Tarkovsky's mysterious masterpiece "Stalker." A writer and professor…
3 years, 7 months ago