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Philosophize This!

by STEPHEN WEST
235 EPISODES
Oct 2023
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Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
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Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)
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Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration
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Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games
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Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)
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Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)
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Episode #219 ... Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
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Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall
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Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile
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Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel
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Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague
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Episode #224 ... Albert Camus - The Stranger
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Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3
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Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov
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Episode #221 ... Dostoevsky - The Idiot
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Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons
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Episode #219 ... Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
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Episode #218 ... Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
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Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani
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Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani
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Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)
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Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger)
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Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)
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Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)
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Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!
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Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
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Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)
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Episode #208 ... The moral evolution of a philosopher. (Peter Singer)
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Episode #207 ... Fear is toxic to a democracy. (Martha Nussbaum)
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Episode #206 ... Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)
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Episode #205 ... Why a meritocracy is corrosive to society. (Michael Sandel)
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Episode #204 ... The importance of philosophy, justice and the common good. (Michael Sandel)
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Episode #203 ... Why the future is being slowly cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)
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Episode #202 ... Why we can't think beyond capitalism. - Neoliberalism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)
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Episode #201 ... Resistance, Love, and the importance of Failure. (Zizek, Byung Chul Han)
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Episode #200 ... The Postmodern subject and "ideology without ideology" (Zizek, Byung Chul Han, Marx)
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Episode #199 ... A conservative communist's take on global capitalism and desire. (Zizek, Marx, Lacan)
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Episode #198 ... The truth is in the process. - Zizek pt. 3 (ideology, dialectics)
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Episode #197 ... New Atheists and cosmic purpose without God - (Zizek, Goff, Nagel)
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Episode #196 ... The improbable Slavoj Zizek - Part 1
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Episode #195 ... Could Anarcho-Capitalism be the solution to our problems? - Anarchism pt. 4 (Rothbard, Friedman, Malice)
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Episode #194 ... Do we really need the police? - Anarchism pt. 3 - (Gelderloos, Security)
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Episode #193 ...The chief export of the western world is trash. - Anarchism pt. 2 (Bookchin, Social Ecology)
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Episode #192 ... Should we overthrow the government tomorrow? - Anarchism pt. 1 (Chomsky, Malatesta)
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Episode #191 ... The modern day concentration camp and the failure of human rights. (Giorgio Agamben)
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Episode #190 ... Are emotions a waste of time? - Neo-Stoicism (Martha Nussbaum)
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Episode #189 ... Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing. - Byung Chul Han pt. 2
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Episode #188 ... Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism, depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han
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Episode #187 ... How much freedom would you trade for security? (Foucault, Hobbes, Mill, Agamben)
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Episode #186 ... Are we heading for a digital prison? - Panopticon (Foucault, Bentham, Cave)
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