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Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes
On Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979), introduction, ch 1 through p. 63, conclusion, and postscript. Ho…
10 years, 5 months ago
Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
On Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), plus Adorno's …
10 years, 6 months ago
Episode 135: Hegel on the Logic of Basic Metaphysical Concepts
A whole second discussion on G.F.W. Hegel's Encyclopedia Logic, hitting sections 78–99 on the dialectic and Understanding vs. Reason. Hegel thinks we…
10 years, 6 months ago
Episode 134: Hegel on Thought & World (or "Logic")
On G.F.W. Hegel's The Science of Logic (1812–1816), §1–§129 and The Encyclopaedia Logic (1817) §1–§25. "Logic" for Hegel is about how thought interac…
10 years, 7 months ago
PEL Special: Nakedly Examined Music #1 with David Lowery
Welcome to Nakedly Examined Music, our first spin-off of PEL. Hear more at nakedlyexaminedmusic.com or find it via iTunes. Mark interviews songwriter…
10 years, 7 months ago
Episode 133: Erich Fromm on Love as an Art
On Fromm's The Art of Loving (1956). What is love, really? This psychoanalyst of the Frankfurt school thinks that real love is not something one "fal…
10 years, 7 months ago
Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo
On selected "moral epistles" (from around 65 CE) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca: 4. On the Terrors of Death, 12. On Old Age, 49. On the Shortness of Life, …
10 years, 8 months ago
Episode 131: Aristotle's "De Anima": What Is the Mind?
Our second discussion of De Anima or On the Soul (350 BCE), this time on book 3. What is the intellect? We talk about its highest part/function: nous…
10 years, 8 months ago
Episode 130: Aristotle's "De Anima": What Is Life?
On De Anima or On the Soul (350 BCE), books 1 and 2, after some listener mail. What can this ancient text tell us about biological life? What counts …
10 years, 9 months ago
Holiday Special 2015: Mark Lint's "Songs from the Partially Examined Life" with Many Guest Greetings
Mark is joined by numerous previous guests to catch up and engage the musical part of PEL's past episodes by introducing and playing the entirety of …
10 years, 9 months ago