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Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)
On Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, books 1 and 2 (1883).
What is wisdom? In this text whose style parodies the Bible, we get pithy advi…
7 years, 5 months ago
Glimpse: Sartre on Literature (for Partially Examined Life #212)
Should literature be political? Jean-Paul Sartre thought that all literature is political, because of what literature is.
That's a very weird-sound…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part Two)
Continuing on What is Literature? (1948).
Sartre gives a phenomenology of reading and writing that makes reading into a creative act of completing th…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part One)
On Jean-Paul Sartre's What is Literature (1948), ch. 1 and 2.
What's the purpose of literature? Why write prose as opposed to poetry? Sartre argues t…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Three)
Moving finally on to Jean-Paul Sartre's "Black Orpheus" (1948), where he introduces a book of black poetry by praising its revolutionary spirit as em…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Two)
Continuing on Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate (1946).
Is there an "authentic" way to respond to persec…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part One)
On Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate (1946) and "Black Orpheus" (1948).
How can we best understand the p…
7 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents Constellary Tales #6: Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" w/ Mark Linsenmayer
PEL's Mark Linsenmayer joins hosts Ken Gerber and Brian Hirt to weigh in on the philosophical implications of precognitive crime fighting in Philip K…
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part Two)
Continuing on Black Skin White Masks (1952), starting with the influential ch. 4 "The Fact of Blackness." Are the successive coping strategies to rac…
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part One)
On Black Skin White Masks (1952).
How does growing up in a racist society mess people up? Fanon's "clinical study" includes phenomenology, poetry, an…
7 years, 7 months ago