Podcast Episodes

Being & Nothingness, Part 1

Season 1 Episode 12

In Part 1, we explicate Jean-Paul Sartre's attempt to build a total existential system hinges on an unusual account of the evanescent character of consciousness at the heart of the meaning of existen…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Repetition

Season 1 Episode 11

Repetititon(1843) is a difficult and, for many, a baffling work by Søren Kierkegaard. It is equal parts psychological study, literary riddle, and philosophical problematic. In this discussion, we att…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Contemporary Conversations: Vanessa Christina Wills on Marx's Ethical Vision

In this lively interview with philosopher Vanessa Wills, we discuss her recently published book, Marx's Ethical Vision, which argues that Marx's historical materialism contains a coherent and consist…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Fear and Trembling

Season 1 Episode 10

This episode inaugurates a series of episodes exploring the existentialist approach to modern philosophy by considering the most well-known work of the melancholic, Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkega…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 3: The Culture Industry

Season 1 Episode 9

To complete our series on Dialectic of Enlightenment, we take an extended look at the famous chapter on the culture industry. The function of the culture industry, or the sphere of production concern…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2

Season 1 Episode 8

In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landm…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1

Season 1 Episode 7

In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landm…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Vocation Lectures

Season 1 Episode 6

This episode discusses the German sociologist Max Weber's Vocation Lectures. In these lectures, Weber outlines a secular conception of the meaning of a vocation, the role of passion in politics and s…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Shame & Necessity

Season 1 Episode 5

In Shame and Necessity,  Bernard Williams interrogates what we can still glean about the universal character of human action and the notion of responsibility from a study of the Ancient Greeks. Willi…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Sources of Normativity

Season 1 Episode 4

This episode turns to Christine Korsgaard's Tanner lectures, "The Sources of Normativity," to explore how morality might be rationally vindicated from within the nature of practical rationality. Kors…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago