Episode #172 ... Simone Weil - Attention

Today we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. Hope you love it. : ... Show More

Today we talk more about Peter Sloterdijk’s book You Must Change Your Life. We talk about Heidegger, the subject-object view of the world, how environments form us, symbolic immunity, modern cynicism, vertical tension, base camps, civilizations as collective immune systems, and w ... Show More

Today we talk about half of the book You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk. From criticism towards views of change that he thinks are far too centered on belief and moral strength, to a reworking of how to view human beings at the level of anthropology. We talk about how ... Show More

In her quote today, acclaimed writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir gives us a framework for understanding how women are “othered” in society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

<p>Corey Mohler, aka Existential Comics, joins Breht to discuss the amazing and fascinating life of Simone Weil.<br /> <br /> Check out Existential Comics here: <a href= "http://existentialcomics.com/">http://existentialcomics.com/</a></p> <p>Follow Corey on Twitter <a href= "htt ... Show More

Today we talk about the topics mentioned in the title, and go off on a brief Neera Tangent. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

We talked to Danielle Cohn about her entire life basically. Enjoy episode 99.5 of TT. 100th episode on Tuesday!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

This week’s episode in our series on the great essays and great essayists is about Simone Weil’s ‘Human Personality’ (1943). Written shortly before her death aged just 34, it is an uncompromising repudiation of the building blocks of modern life: democracy, rights, personal ident ... Show More