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Glimpse: Machiavellian Politics (for Partially Examined Life #14)
Does politics have to be Machiavellian? Do you have to be ruthless to succeed?
Given our treatment of Game of Thrones and Life Is a Dream, and the wa…
7 years, 4 months ago
PEL Audioplayers: "Life Is a Dream" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Your hosts are joined by real actors to do an unrehearsed read of Calderón's 1636 comedy La Vida Es Sueño, using Stanley Appelbaum's 2002 translation…
7 years, 4 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep 216 Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics (Part Two)
Get teased re. Mark and Wes's post-finale, spoiler-filled continuation of the discussion of the show.
How does its conclusion affect its overall poli…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 216: Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics
Discussing the TV show (2011-2019) based on the books by George R.R. Martin.
What's the role of a mass-consumed fantasy series in today's society? Is…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 215: Brave New World: PEL Live 10th Anniversary Show
On Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel, recorded at Manhattan's Caveat on 4/6/19, with audience participation.
If we harness the power of society to…
7 years, 5 months ago
Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
Concluding Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885).
What's the wise way to live? We start in earnest into part three, treating the "spiri…
7 years, 5 months ago
Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)
On the remainder of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885).
How can we keep our spirits up and avoid nihilism? We consider Nietzsche's "…
7 years, 5 months ago
Glimpse: Nietzsche's Last Man (for Partially Examined Life #213)
Is technology making us complacent? Are we in danger of becoming Nietzsche's famed "last men" who are no longer capable of creativity and independent…
7 years, 5 months ago
Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
Continuing on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, books 1 and 2 (1883).
We talk through Nietzsche's symbolism (tightrope walkers and graved…
7 years, 5 months ago
PREMIUM-(sub)Text#6: Melanie Klein's "Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms"
Wes Alwan is joined by Dr. Glenn Mobray to discuss this classic 1946 psychoanalytic text.
This is a preview of a 63-minute discussion. You can listen…
7 years, 5 months ago