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Wilderness and the American mind
Season 1 Episode 70
Roderick Frazier Nash
Wilderness and the American Mind
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300190380/wilderness-and-the-american-mind/
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The character sketch as philosophy. Katie Ebner-Landy.
Season 1 Episode 69
Katie Ebner-Landy
The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674294127
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Susan Stewart's Clarendon Lectures: Poetry's Nature
Season 1 Episode 68
Susan Stewart
Poetry's Nature
1 year ago
Marcel Proust with Stanford professor Joshua Landy. Time, memories, literature.
Joshua Landy (Stanford University)
Proust: A very short introduction
1 year, 1 month ago
Caleb Smith. Distraction and discipline.
Caleb Smith
Thoreau's axe: Distraction and discipline in American culture
Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many…
1 year, 2 months ago
Henry David Thoreau
Season 1 Episode 65
Henry David Thoreau A Very Short Introduction
Lawrence Buell
The first concise account of Thoreau's life, thought, work, and impact in more than half…
1 year, 3 months ago
Bernard Mandeville, 1670-1733.
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe
John J. Callanan
A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandev…
1 year, 4 months ago
This concise book introduces phenomenology in its rigor--and its breadth: from philosophical foundation to application in psychology, psychiatry, qualitative research, critical theory, sociology, etc.
Dan Zahavi
Phenomenology: The basics, 2nd Edition
Two footnotes to the podcast.
1. Walter Hopp's beloved Boston University course is distilled in his…
1 year, 5 months ago
One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Owen Flanagan, was for many years an addict. He synthesizes in this book both the science and phenomenology of addiction.
Owen Flanagan
James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus
What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Under…
1 year, 7 months ago
Until now there were three schools of thought on how best to live one's life (Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). Agnes Callard proposes a fourth: Socratic.
Agnes Callard
Open Socrates
"[C]harming, intelligent…Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking." —Jennifer S…
1 year, 7 months ago