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Best podcasts about Levinas

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ISVW Podcast
Laurens ten Kate over 'Tussen Arendt en Levinas'

ISVW Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2026 40:02


Een gesprek met Laurens ten Kate over Hannah Arendt en Emmanuel Levinas. Ten Kate is filosoof, religiewetenschapper en theoloog. En is emeritus-hoogleraar Vrijzinnige religiositeit en humanisme aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek in Utrecht. Bij de ISVW geeft hij de summerschool 'Tussen Arendt en Levinas'. En bij ISVW-uitgevers verscheen zijn boek: 'Tussen markt en volk, Vrijzinnig-religieuze vragen aan een neoliberale wereld'. Met Bart Geeraedts spreekt hij over hoe 'de Ander' je leven bepaalt en verandert. Hoe deze ontmoeting altijd óók een ontmoeting met jezelf is. Een ontmoeting in een ruimte die door niemand geclaimd mag worden. Van daaruit wordt je handelen politiek. En dat blijkt een zeer actueel thema te zijn.

Wat blijft
Audiodoc: Filosoof Emmanuel Levinas (12 januari 1906-25 december 1995)

Wat blijft

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2026 42:22


In Wat blijft audiodoc een aflevering over de Frans-joodse filosoof Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas wordt gezien als ‘de filosoof van de Ander', consequent met een hoofdletter geschreven om het belang van de aanwezigheid van de andere mens te benadrukken. Levinas overleefde de Tweede Wereldoorlog, maar zijn familie werd uitgemoord. Deze helse geschiedenis spoorde hem aan tot een pleidooi voor een betere en humane omgang tussen mensen.  Sinds zijn overlijden in 1995 is er sprake van een opleving van de belangstelling voor zijn werk. Publicaties van de Vlaamse moraaltheoloog Roger Burggraeve en de Vlaamse psychiater Dirk de Wachter spelen hierin een grote rol.   Journalist Marlous Lazal praat met:   -de Vlaamse psychiater Dirk de Wachter, die veel troost uit het werk van Levinas put; -moraaltheoloog Roger Burggraeve, gerenommeerd door zijn onderzoek naar het werk van Levinas, wat hem de bijnaam ‘Burginas' opleverde; -de Vlaamse journalist en programmamaker France Guwy, die Levinas in 1985 interviewde voor de Ikon-televisie; -en theatermaker Adelheid Roosen die al jong kennis maakte met Levinas' werk en het nog steeds als een leidraad in het leven ervaart. 

Overthink
Closer Look: Levinas, On Escape

Overthink

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2026 59:45


Why do we seek to escape from ourselves? In episode 168 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a closer look at Emmanuel Levinas's article “On Escape.” They discuss Levinas's claim that escape is central to the human condition and explore what exactly we try to escape from and escape to. They explain how this aspect of human existence is crystallized by our experiences of need, pleasure, and even nausea. Are we condemned to being needy beings? How does Levinas's view of shame put him at a distance from Sartre? And is Levinas right that to be a human is to never be at peace with oneself? In the Substack bonus segment, your hosts discuss why escape is the condition of our time and critique Levinas's reading of idealism.Works Discussed:Emmanuel Levinas, “On Escape”Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: https://www.givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Substack for ad-free versions of both audio and video episodes, extended episodes, exclusive live chats, and more: https://overthinkpod.substack.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Conversations in Atlantic Theory
John Drabinski on Atlantic Theory, So Unimaginable a Price, and At the Margins of Nihilism

Conversations in Atlantic Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2026 61:35


Along with dozens of scholarly articles and a handful of edited books and journal issues, he is the author of seven books: Sensibility and Singularity (2001), Godard Between Identity and Difference (2008), Levinas and the Postcolonial (2012), Glissant and the Middle Passage (2019), and three recent books that are the occasion for our conversation, Atlantic Theory (2025), So Unimaginable a Price (2026) and At the Margins of Nihilism (2026). He is also the co-editor with Michael Sawyer of Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy and co-host of both The Black Studies Podcast and Conversations in Atlantic Theory.In today's conversation, we explore Dr. Drabinski's three latest monographs: In Atlantic Theory, where he traces the enduring legacies of slavery and colonialism while offering a comparative account of critical thought across the Atlantic world. In So Unimaginable a Price, he turns to James Baldwin, situating his work within a broader mid-century Atlantic context and placing it in dialogue with thinkers across the Caribbean and Africa.Finally, in At the Margins of Nihilism, he develops a theoretical framework through a comparative reading of Jacques Derrida and Orlando Patterson, drawing on figures such as Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon, and Baldwin to examine how different forms of nihilism operate as closed systems, and how they are unsettled through vernacular practices of life and refusal.

Skravleklassen
Effektiv bistand, rasjonalitet og fremtidens etikk

Skravleklassen

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2026 64:44


Er dagens bistandssystem rigget for å redde flest mulig liv, eller for å bevare seg selv? I denne episoden møter vi Eirik Mofoss, daglig leder i tankesmien Langsikt, til en dyptgående samtale om effektiv altruisme, utviklingspolitikk og de etiske rammene for våre valg.Samtalen starter med en utforskning av kognitive biaser – fra de nære relasjonene til de store systemene – og beveger seg raskt over i de harde prioriteringene som definerer moderne bistand. Sentrale temaer i episoden: Paradigmeskiftet i bistand: Hvorfor er direkte kontantoverføringer ofte overlegne tradisjonelle tiltak som skoleuniformer og naturalia? Vi diskuterer hvordan lokal markedsstimulering og autonomi trumfer "sexy" bistandsbilder. Måling av lykke og velferd: Hvordan vekter man subjektiv lykke mot objektive mål som leveår? Eirik forklarer metodikken bak Happy Lives Institute og utfordrer tradisjonelle evaluatorer som GiveWell. Longtermism og risiko: Skal vi prioritere dagens nød eller fremtidige eksistensielle trusler? Vi drøfter de radikale ideene til William MacAskill og hvordan langsiktighetsetikk påvirker dagens politiske beslutninger. Politisk økonomi og reform: Hvorfor ignorerer beslutningstakere ekspertutvalgenes råd? Vi ser på insentivstrukturene i norsk politikk og den kommende stortingsmeldingen om bistandsreform i 2027. Rasjonalitet vs. emosjonell etikk: En refleksjon rundt spennet mellom Levinas’ nærhetsetikk og utilitaristisk kost-nytte-analyse. Er det mulig å kombinere en varm menneskelighet med kald logikk? "Det er ikke kynisk å prioritere hardt hva vi bruker tid og krefter på – det er tvert imot selve kjernen i menneskelig omsorg."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

de Erno Hannink Show | Betere Beslissingen, Beter Bedrijf
Wachten, een levenshouding – Dirk De Wachter #boekencast afl 136

de Erno Hannink Show | Betere Beslissingen, Beter Bedrijf

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2026 43:27


Vandaag bespreken we het boek Wachten, een levenshouding, van Dirk de Wachter. Waarom wachten als het sneller kan? Dat is het gevoel van de ondernemer. Terwijl wachten, ruimte maken, veel oplevert. Denk aan betere beslissingen, focus, meer aandacht voor de lange termijn, betere relaties. Dat is waar dit boek je inspiratie kan geven. Hoe je ruimte maakt voor een beter resultaat. Dirk de Wachter is psychiater-psychoterapeut en hoogleraar. We bespraken eerder Borderline Times van hem en andere bekende boeken van hem zijn De van het ongelukkig zijn en Vertroostingen. Hij is een graag geziene gast in Nederlandse programma's zoals Buitenhof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMU8KDnfwBQ . Dit is een video van VPRO boeken met Dirk over het boek Wachten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqbMClKHEXE https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_De_Wachter Hij is naar eigen zeggen erg beïnvloed door filosoof Emmanuel Levinas en schrijver Michel Houellebecq. In 2021 maakte Dirk De Wachter bekend dat hij kanker heeft. Voor mij is het een heerlijk boek waarin De Wachter het belang van wachten en stilstaan in de snelle wereld verduidelijkt. Dit doet hij vanuit verschillende standpunten, persoonlijk uit zijn eigen leven of in zijn praktijk. De hoofdstukken zijn kort, ongeveer 10 pagina's, en het leest gemakkelijk. Het is fijn om het per hoofdstuk te lezen en dan te laten bezinken. Wat ik soms lastig vind, zijn de Franse stukjes tekst die niet vertaald zijn. Zo goed is mijn Frans niet. De inhoudsopgave Wachten Wachten, een levenshouding Wachten bij de bakker Wachten en wondere gedachten Wachten zonder verwachting Wacht niet te lang, maar wacht als het kan Dichter bij het wachten Wachten op de verdieping Wacht maar, niet alles moet nu Wachten op de liefde Wachten om de tijd te doden Wacht eens… bidden we nog? Wachten op slecht nieuws Het museum van De Wachter Wachten op wat nog komen gaat Wachten Hij vertelt over zijn vriend en mentor Sam IJsseling en hoe het idee voor dit boek ontstond in 2009. Een beschouwing over het wachten. Waarbij Dirk opmerkt dat zijn achternaam de essentie van het leven bevat: de wachter. Wachten, een levenshouding Het wachten zonder verwachting (Heidegger Gelassenheit ist das Warten ohne Erwartung) Mensen misbruiken soms het ‘wachten' als alibi om niets te doen. Dat is niet de levenshouding die Dirk bedoelt, die zelf , nu de kinderen ouder zijn, harder werkt dan ooit. Niets doen is je verantwoordelijkheid ontlopen, zegt hij zelfs. Het is niet de verbinding met de ander aangaan. Wachten is niet niets doen. Wandelen en wachten gaan goed samen. Hij noemt de flaneur. Wandelen en wachten, zonder doel. De Wachter wandelt vaak over kerkhoven. Verbinding aangaan met anderen, de doden. Bijzondere moment van zijn oom, die in een woonzorgcentrum wachte op zijn dood. Wachten bij de bakker Het wachten in de rij, buiten, voor de bakker. Een boekje lezen in de rij. Het verhaal over Bernard Dewulf die hij daar ziet in die rij, twee weken later overlijdt, de ontmoeting met zijn weduwe na een lezing. Lezen tijdens het wachten is heerlijk.  Het uitkijken (wachten) naar iets lijkt niet meer te kunnen. We willen spullen en het resultaat zo snel mogelijk. Terwijl het wachten op dat resultaat net zo mooi is, of zelfs mooier dan het resultaat zelf. Zo beschrijft hij het werk van Levinas en het werk en wachten op het resultaat. Zoals de eerste appels van je eigen appelboom. Als afsluiting zegt hij nog dat we in de coronatijd hebben geleerd om te wachten en verbinding te maken. Wachten en wondere gedachten Dat doet het wachten: het overstijgen van de kloktijd, het aanzetten tot wondere gedachten, het ontstijgen van het dwingend moeten, het proeven van de wezenlijkheid van het bestaan. (mooi) Met zijn dochter op een bankje wachten tot de sluis weer dicht is en ze verder kunnen wandelen. Wachten zonder verwachting p49 Hij vertelt over hoe lastig lezen was in de tijd dat hij ernstig ziek was. Hij las één boek samen met zijn zoon - Een odysse en besprak ieder hoofdstuk samen met zijn zoon. De zin van het leven: ‘zum Tode leven' enkel omdat we sterven heeft het leven zin. Alleen omdat we doodgaan, krijgt wat we hier doen betekenis. (wow) Niet vluchten voor het leven, maar goed en rustig en bedachtzaam nadenken over wat we doen en waarom. Misschien moeten we minder doen en beter nadenken over wat, waarom en wanneer. (WOW). Past goed bij mij (en bij ondernemers). Introduceert een filosoof die ik nog niet kende, Henri Bergson (de beroemste filosoof van de wereld - waarom kende ik hem nog niet) - Tijd en vrije wil, lezen. De Wachter noemt ook wachten in een rij, niet voordringen. Iemand voor laten gaan. Galant zijn. Levinas wachtte heel lang op erkenning omdat hij nooit op de barricades sprong. - Voor erkenning moet je dus positie innemen, de barricades op. Het programma Donderdagen met Dirk De Wachter https://npo.nl/start/afspelen/brainwash-special  Levinas - Het zijn bestaat niet uit rusten in zichzelf, maar uit zichzelf ontdoen van zichzelf. Iets zijn betekent toegewijd zijn aan de ander. Zonder de ander was ik geen mens. Wacht niet te lang, maar wacht als het kan p68 De lastigheid is er nog, maar het leven is goed. Hoe kunnen we een goed leven hebben met een ernstige kwetsbaarheid die nooit helemaal voorbijgaat? Herstel zit in verbinding gaan. Geduldig aanwezig zijn en wachten tot mensen zelf een stap zetten. Niet te veel zeggen over wat mensen moeten doen. Mooi verhaal over het Wachthuis voor mensen die op de wachtlijst voor de psychiatrie staan. Dichter bij het wachten Geweldig om zo je netwerk met waardevolle mensen uit te bouwen. 'Niet door te zoeken, maar door te wachten en te vinden.' p85 In dit hoofdstuk staan veel quotes van andere boeken en gedichten. 'Schilderen, dat is wachten.' Het echte werk is dus wachten. De kunstenaar wacht. Dagboek van een dichter - Een levensboek: veertig jaar lang elke dag één zin, één regel. Wow. Michaux p91 'Het leven verstrijkt, verdwijnt, even snel als het wordt gebruikt; lang duurt het alleen voor wie in staat is tot zwerven, luieren. Aan de vooravond van zijn dood beseft de man van de daad en de arbeid - te laat - dat het leven van nature lang duurt, een duur die ook hem ten deel had kunnen vallen als hij zich maar niet constant tegenaan had bemoeid. Morning Pages - is ook zoiets. Schrijven komt er vanzelf op papier. Wachten op de verdieping Wacht maar, niet alles moet nu Wachten in een professioneel leven is absoluut niet zo slecht. Neem tijd om te groeien in je functie. Laat het rustig doordringen. Word beter. Watchful waiting. Beleggen in verbinding. Samen met mensen. Dat is heel kostbaar. Soms komen die leidinggevenden bij hem. Ze hebben een burn-out en het niet-wachten heeft hen tot wanhoop gedreven. De professionele wereld zou beter functioneren als we beslissingen bedachtzamer maken. Jonge mannen en vrouwen zouden op jongere leeftijd meer aandacht aan het gezinsleven moeten besteden. Pas als de kinderen groot zijn, gaan ze voor die carrière. Zijn stelling is dat het leven beter wordt met het ouder worden. Er komt met het ouder worden een soort geduld. Net alles moet nog. Wachten op de liefde Twijfel desnoods lang. Wees omzichtig, wacht, bespreek, denk lang na en beslis dan pas. Maar als je beslissing valt, moet dit je motto zijn: bemin je keuze. Je verandert in relaties niet tegelijkertijd. Iedereen groeit op zijn of haar eigen wijze mee. Zo scharnier je aan elkaar. (mooi) Over scheiden. Grote mensen moeten doen wat ze denken dat ze moeten doen, maar ze moeten vooral de zorg voor hun kinderen niet uit het oog verliezen. De verticale verbindingen zijn essentieel. Als je de keuze niet bemint, geef je die keuze geen kans. Als ouder niet te veel je eigen verwachtingen op je kinderen afwentelen. Het kind moet eigen dromen kunnen creëren. Liefst met Gelassenheit. Wachten om de tijd te doden Bij het vissen is het wachten de essentie, maar ook de verbinding tussen vader en zoon (of opa en kleinzoon). p115 als ouder heb je de taak om je kinderen af en toe te begrenzen. het is belangrijk dat ze zich kunnen vervelen. Niet alles moet ingevuld worden. Om van binnenuit, en vanut de verveling de creativiteit doen opstijgen. (geldt ook voor de volwassene zelf) Zoektocht naar de zin (Il y a). Dat kan niet door te geneiten van de kicks, maar wel door te genieten van de gewone dingen in het leven. De wereld dankbaar beleven als een goeie plek.

il posto delle parole
Francesca Nodari "Nata contro"

il posto delle parole

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2026 23:29


Francesca Nodari"Nata contro"Mimesis Edizioniwww.mimesisedizioni.itDopo un silenzio di oltre vent'anni, dopo la rielaborazione, apparentemente conclusa, del rifiuto di un padre/padrone che ha saputo darle e dirle solo dei “no”, Antigone si ritrova, di nuovo, ad avere a che fare con quella figura ingombrante che in paese chiamano Belzebù. L'ex-figlia – così Ernesto l'apostrofava – corre in ospedale dopo essere stata informata che l'uomo versa in condizioni molto critiche a causa di circostanze avvolte da un fitto alone di mistero. Cosa fare dinnanzi a una situazione simile? Far fronte al destino o andarsene? Antigone – colei che è “nata contro” – sceglie la porta stretta. La via dolorosa. E lo fa, nuovamente, da sola. Come l'Antigone di Sofocle, si sente murata viva. Qui non c'è da rivendicare la giusta sepoltura di Polinice, ma la pietas nei confronti di un uomo abbandonato e ridotto in fin di vita, con l'aggravante che, quell'uomo, incarna il potere disgustoso di Creonte, che quell'uomo, che era suo padre, l'ha rimossa dalla sua vita, come se lei fosse già morta.Francesca Nodari filosofa morale, allieva di Bernhard Casper, è direttore scientifico del Festival Filosofi lungo l'Oglio. Tra i suoi libri: Il male radicale tra Kant e Levinas (2008); Il pensiero incarnato in Emmanuel Levinas (2011); Il bisogno dell'Altro e la fecondità del Maestro (2013); Storia di Dolores. Lettera al padre che non ho mai avuto (2016); Temporalità e umanità (2017); Donne e Shoah (con A. Foa, 2021). Sua è la nuova edizione critica a Il Tempo e l'Altro di Emmanuel Levinas (2022). Dirige, presso Mimesis, le collane “Chicchidoro” e “Tempo della memoria”. Collabora con La Domenica de “Il Sole 24 Ore”.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
The Accessorized Bible: Interpretation, Responsibility, and the Ethics of Reading / David Dault

For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 62:40


What happens when we stop treating the Bible as a sacred object and start paying attention to how we actually use it? In this conversation, theologian David Dault reflects on interpretation, responsibility, and the ethics of reading scripture in a fractured world. In this episode with Evan Rosa, Dault reflects on interpretation, responsibility, and how readers shape the meaning and moral impact of the Bible. Together they discuss the materiality of scripture, translation and betrayal, moral seriousness, scriptural reasoning across traditions, catastrophic love, and the ethical responsibility readers bear for how sacred texts are used. Episode Highlights “To assume that we know what a text is telling us is a matter of hubris.” “The Bible doesn't tell you to do anything. You as a reader decide what to do.” “Violence is always an act of interpretation.” “We never get to a place where everything is clean and everyone benefits.” “We have to take responsibility for the violence we involve ourselves in.” About David Dault David Dault is a theologian, journalist, and media producer whose work explores religion, culture, ethics, and interpretation. He is Executive Producer and host of Things Not Seen: Conversations About Culture and Faith, a nationally distributed public radio program. He teaches in the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago. Dault's scholarship focuses on hermeneutics, religion and media, and the ethical implications of how sacred texts are interpreted and used in public life. His book The Accessorized Bible examines the material forms, cultural framing, and interpretive communities that shape how people encounter scripture. He holds degrees in theology and religious studies and frequently writes and lectures on religion, politics, and culture. Helpful Links And Resources The Accessorized Bible, by David Dault https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300153125/the-accessorized-bible/ Things Not Seen: Conversations About Culture and Faith https://thingsnotseenradio.com David Dault's personal website https://www.daviddault.com/ Show Notes The Accessorized Bible—material culture of scripture, design, marketing niches, and the ways the physical form of the Bible shapes how readers interpret and use it Bible as object, medium, and cultural artifact; Marshall McLuhan and media theory—the form of a book shaping how ideas move between minds Books as technologies of imagination and identity formation; reading as a kind of “magical” transfer of ideas from one mind into another “To assume that we know what a text is telling us is a matter of hubris.” Interpretation requires caution, humility, and the recognition that texts exceed our control Making the familiar strange again; recovering the power of scripture by refusing to domesticate it or assume we fully understand it Franz Rosenzweig on preserving the alienness of sacred texts; debate with Martin Buber on translation and clarity Translation as interpretation—translators inevitably carry values, ideologies, and cultural assumptions into the text Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence; interpreters “misread” texts in order to wrestle with their influence and generate new meaning Reading scripture in community; trust, vulnerability, and shared responsibility among interpreters Scriptural reasoning—Jews, Christians, and Muslims reading shared stories (Noah, Abraham, Moses) together without claiming mastery over the text Tikkun olam—Jewish ethical tradition of “repairing the world”; the world is wounded and humans participate in its healing Repentance and Repair—Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on moral accountability, restitution, and the work of restoring relationships Violence embedded in interpretation; moral action always involves choices about attention, resources, and responsibility The “flashlight” metaphor—moral attention illuminating one suffering person while another need temporarily falls into shadow Jairus's daughter and the woman with the hemorrhage—competing moral urgencies in the Gospels “We never get to a place where everything is clean and everyone benefits.” Moral action always involves tragic limitation and competing responsibilities Levinas and infinite responsibility; the ethical demand arising from the face of the person before us Moral seriousness versus performative irony; resisting discourse driven by trolling, spectacle, and dopamine-driven outrage A Bible Is A Book—dismantling the assumption that sacred texts themselves command moral action Steve Martin's The Jerk and the phone book illustration; a sniper randomly selecting a name and deciding someone should die “The Bible doesn't tell you what to do.” Readers decide what moral actions follow from a text Reader responsibility; refusing the excuse “the Bible told me to,” recognizing moral agency belongs to interpreters Scripture as “accessory to a crime”—sacred texts used as cover for violence, exclusion, or cruelty The Bible as platform—modular text shaped by study notes, editorial commentary, illustrations, and devotional framing Study Bibles, children's Bibles, niche-market editions; publishing strategies shaping the interpretive experience Platform logic—similar to Facebook or Twitter; users curate meaning from a shared medium Proof-texting and selective quotation; constructing entire moral worlds from isolated passages Hannah Arendt on responsibility; loving the world enough to accept responsibility for it James Baldwin leaving Paris after the Little Rock crisis; refusing comfort while others bear injustice “Someone should have been there with her.” Baldwin's recognition that solidarity requires leaving safety and standing beside the vulnerable Catastrophic love—risking institutions, traditions, and comfort for the sake of vulnerable bodies Matthew 25 ethics; encountering Christ among the hungry, imprisoned, and marginalized Moral seriousness as daily practice; imperfect responsibility, persistent solidarity, doing what one can today and beginning again tomorrow #Bible #ChristianBible #BiblicalInterpretation #TheologyPodcast #ChristianEthics #Hermeneutics #Scripture #FaithAndCulture #DavidDault Production Notes This podcast featured David Dault Edited and Produced by Evan Rosa Hosted by Evan Rosa Production Assistance by Noah Senthil A Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/about Support For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

de Erno Hannink Show | Betere Beslissingen, Beter Bedrijf
Intiem verzet – Josep Maria Esquirol #boekencast afl 134

de Erno Hannink Show | Betere Beslissingen, Beter Bedrijf

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2026 60:16


Vandaag bespreken we het boek, Intiem verzet van Josep Maria Esquirol. De ondertitel is: Naar een filosofie van nabijheid Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf (geboren in 1963 in Mediona) is een Catalaanse filosoof, essayist en hoogleraar filosofie aan de Universiteit van Barcelona. Hij leidt de Aporia Research Group, die zich bezighoudt met hedendaagse filosofie en in het bijzonder met de relatie tussen filosofie en psychiatrie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Maria_Esquirol_Calaf La resistència intima. Ensayo de una filosofia de la proximidad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcxR_l1_I5E (gesprek) - Engelse ondertiteling aanzetten. Voor mij was het een ingewikkeld boek. Ik had moeite om erdoorheen te komen en heb dan ook niet alles gelezen. Daar zit voor mij ook een soort tweestrijd in, ik denk dat je dit soort boeken niet in één ruk (of in twee weken) moet uit willen lezen. Het heeft ruimte nodig om te herlezen, om te bezinnen en te filosoferen. Tegelijkertijd had ik het boek nooit uitgelezen als we deze deadline niet hadden. Dan was het blijven liggen en had ik veel liever het boek Wachten gelezen van De Wachter. Daar ben ik in begonnen en het leest weg. Lastig vind ik alle filosofen die hij aanhaalt, quotes uit boeken, en met delen is hij het wel eens en met anderen niet. Het voelt soms zinloos wat hij beschrijft voor mij. Ook de woorden die gebruikt worden zijn voor mij niet altijd bekend of duidelijk. Inhoudsopgave De warme maaltijd op tafel (moment) I Ontwrichting en verzet II Het niets en de nihilistische ervaring in kaart gebracht De tuin bewerken (moment) III Terug naar huis IV Lofzang op het alledaagse: hoe eenvoudig het leven kan zijn V Korte medische overpeinzing VI Zelfzorg zonder narcisme VII Niet zwichten voor het dogmatische van de actualiteit Subatomisch zweet (moment) VIII De oceaan of de woestijn? IX De essentie van taal als beschutting X Een metfysica van het verbond De warme maaltijd op tafel (moment) Samenleven staat of valt met samen eten. (past in de Mediterane cultuur) I Ontwrichting en verzet Bestaan is jezelf vormgeven, en daarmee verzet plegen. Leven is jezelf ontplooien (tegenpool bij life coaches van verzet) een persoonlijk uniek pad naar het geluk, overbodige sofisterij - middelmatigheid. Verzet tegen tirannieën is verzet tegen de ontwrichting. Een goed leven is niet het summum. II Het niets en de nihilistische ervaring in kaart gebracht Het nihilisme staat voor een gebrek aan waarden, het besef dat we de betekenis van ons bestaan niet kunnen doorgronden met concepten als doel, eenheid en waarheid. p29 De confrontatie met jezelf: enerzijds sta je oog in oog met het niets, maar anderzijds is het de beste manier om tot rust te komen. p33 De tuin bewerken (moment) Mooi in het verhaal hoe ze de man ontmoeten die de actualiteit niet volgt. Geen grootgrondbezitter, maar wel genoeg om van te leven met zijn kinderen. Door het werk op het land houden ze drie grote rampen van het lijf, de verveling, de ondeugd en de honger. Gedachtenloos werken maakt het leven draaglijk. Zingeving is te vinden in nabijheid. III Terug naar huis Het huis is een veilige plek om naar terug te keren. De beschutting, de rust die intimiteit biedt. Het gaat om bescherming en gastvrijheid. De gifteconomie gaat niet uit van groei, maar van volharding en herhaling. IV Lofzang op het alledaagse: hoe eenvoudig het leven kan zijn In plaats van steeds op zoek gaan naar het buitengewone, ons verwonderen over de eenvoud om ons heen, en leren het te waarderen. p60 en 61 Het gemiddelde leven wordt ondergewaardeerd. Ons bestaan is een verblijf in de nabijheid. V Korte medische overpeinzing VI Zelfzorg zonder narcisme VII Niet zwichten voor het dogmatische van de actualiteit Subatomisch zweet (moment) Dit hoofdstuk begreep ik niet. VIII De oceaan of de woestijn? IX De essentie van taal als beschutting X Een metfysica van het verbond Opvallende lessen uit het boek voor ons: 00:00 intro - een eerste indruk van het boek, het boek leest lastig 08:15 Een reactie is op onze wereld van social media en te veel media. Terug naar de kern, naar minder. 13:05 Samenleven staat of valt met samen eten. 16:10 Leven is je verzetten. 16:35 Onverzettelijk verzet tegen de zelfgenoegzaamheid van de massa. 17:20 Het Nederlandse woord samenleven is de kern van dit verzet. De redzame burger is het tegenovergestelde van samenleven. 18:35 Life coaches die zeggen dat je naar je persoonlijke unieke pad naar geluk moet zoeken, dit is overbodige sofisterij . 19:25 Verzet tegen tirannieën is verzet tegen de ontwrichting. Het glorificeren van het simpele bestaan door Esquirol. 26:10 Solidariteit neemt de vorm van een huis aan, en ongastvrij is geen huis. 27:30 De gifteconomie gaat niet uit van groei, maar van volharding en herhaling, totdat iedereen een huis en te eten heeft. 28:55 In plaats van op zoek te gaan naar het buitengewone, ons verwonderen over de eenvoud om ons heen en leren waarderen. 30:20 Een dagelijks leven dat rijk genoeg is ligt binnen het bereik van de meeste mensen. 36:50 Nadenken, reflectie, is al een vorm van voor jezelf zorgen. 42:25 Het suikerzoete scepsis van huis-, tuin- en keukenintellectuelen. 49:10 Alleen buiten de actualiteit is leven. Bronnen die we genoemd hebben Wij Nihilisten – Hans Schnitzler #boekencast afl 78 Stop chasing happiness – Frank Martela #boekencast afl 133 Infocratie – Byung-Chul Han #boekencast afl 72 Over het verdwijnen van rituelen – Byung-Chul Han #boekencast afl 123 Jaaroverzicht #boekencast 2025 Michel Foucault - Wikipedia Limitarisme – Ingrid Robeyns #boekencast afl 96 Toxisch reich – Sebastian Klein #boekencast afl 122 Komt een land bij de dokter – Michelle van Tongerloo #boekencast afl 114 Hannah Arendt - Wikipedia arts Wico Mulder - Praktijk SALUT Inner Development Goals Filosofie van de kroeg - Hans Schnitzler Luister naar deze aflevering Beluister hier ons gesprek over het boek Intiem verzet Opmerking: ik heb per ongeluk deze aflevering met de verkeerde microfoon opgenomen die wat verder wegstaat. Mijn excuses daarvoor. In een halfuur delen wij dit boek met jou. Een halfuur met kennis die je tot je neemt terwijl je wandelt, loopt of rijdt, bijvoorbeeld. Video van deze aflevering Bekijk ons gesprek op video https://youtu.be/jdKfi565MGo https://youtu.be/jdKfi565MGo Opmerking: ik heb per ongeluk deze aflevering met de verkeerde microfoon opgenomen die wat verder wegstaat. Mijn excuses daarvoor. In deze aflevering bespreken we het boek Intiem verzet In deze aflevering van de Ondernemers Boekencast bespreken we Intiem Verzet: Naar een filosofie van nabijheid van Josep Maria Esquirol (hoogleraar filosofie in Barcelona, leider van de Actoria Research Group rond hedendaagse filosofie en de relatie met psychiatrie). Het boek (Nederlandse vertaling, ca. 185 pagina's leestekst) hebben we als complex en soms moeilijk toegankelijk ervaren, met veel verwijzingen naar andere filosofen en wisselende leesbaarheid per hoofdstuk en tussenteksten (‘momenten'). We bespreken de goed leesbare onderdelen o.a. ‘De warme maaltijd op tafel' en ‘De tuinbewerkers', maar we vinden passages zoals ‘Het subatomische zweet' onbegrijpelijk. De bespreking richt zich op de kernideeën: ‘intiem verzet' als verzet tegen ontwrichting, egoïsme en de ‘heerschappij van de actualiteit' (social media, media-overload en een virtuele wereld), door terug te keren naar het nabije en alledaagse: samen eten, het huis als plek van bescherming en gastvrijheid, de tuin/het werk (met verwijzingen naar kloostertradities en ‘ora et labora'), en aandacht voor solidariteit. We noemen het concept ‘gifteconomie' als kritiek op groei-logica en als volharding en herhaling ‘tot iedereen een huis en te eten heeft', en verbinden dit aan fraternité/solidariteit en aan hedendaagse thema's zoals dakloosheid. Verder komt ‘lofzang op het alledaagse' aan bod (verwondering over eenvoud, waarbij eenvoud niet hetzelfde is als banaliteit) en het hoofdstuk ‘zelfzorg zonder narcisme', waarin reflectie wordt gepresenteerd als zorg voor jezelf zonder egocentrisme. Tom bespreekt het hoofdstuk over taal als beschutting, met Levinas-citaten over taal als contact en een oprecht ‘gaat het goed met je?' als vorm van zorg, en contrasteert dat met oppervlakkige ‘hoe gaat het?'-gesprekken en mediapraat. Het boek eindigt volgens ons met de gedachte dat ‘eenvoudige mensen' dit al lang wisten en dat filosofische reflectie later aansluit, met verzet als het bewaken van verbinding. We sluiten af met de oproep de ‘stekker eruit te trekken' uit actualiteit en routines, en terug te keren naar eenvoud, nabijheid en echte verbinding als basis voor een (her)nieuwde samenleving. Transcript Erno Hannink: [00:00:00] Welkom in de nieuwe Ondernemers Boekencast. Vandaag bespreken we het boek Intiem Verzet. Het boek van Josep Maria Esquirol. De ondertitel is Naar een filosofie van nabijheid. Het boekje hebben we gekregen van Ten Haven. Dankjewel daarvoor. Geregeld door Tom. Laat ik eerst even zeggen, Esquirol dat is een cartelaan. Hij is hoogleraar filosofie aan de Universiteit van Barcelona. En hij leidt de Actoria Research Group. Die is bezig met hedendaagse filosofie en in het bijzonder de relatie tussen filosofie en psychiatrie. Ik heb wel wat meer met filosofie en technologie, daar heb ik wel een paar keer wat dingen van gehoord en naar geluisterd. Maar ik moet zeggen, van de combinatie filosofie en psychiatrie nog niet. Het oorspronkelijke boek, de Spaanse versie, is volgens mij vier jaar geleden uitgekomen. En dit is de Nederlandse vertaling daarvan. Het boek is ongeveer 185 pagina's, het leesgedeelte.

SHOFAR Podcast
Découvrir Levinas

SHOFAR Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2026 58:00


Découvrir LevinasPodcast avec Dr Shmuel Wygoda Figure majeure de la philosophie du XXᵉ siècle, Emmanuel Lévinas a profondément renouvelé la pensée éthique contemporaine, tout en faisant dialoguer la philosophie moderne et la tradition juive.Dans ce podcast, nous vous proposons de découvrir les notions fondamentales de sa pensée — le visage, la responsabilité, l'altérité — avec le docteur Shmuel Wygoda, spécialiste de Lévinas.Enregistré en un seul échange, ce podcast est diffusé en deux épisodes pour ne pas être trop long ; la seconde partie sera publiée dans les prochains jours.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Pravidelná dávka
334. Duša je naša sloboda odstupu (rozhovor s filozofom Petrom Koubom)

Pravidelná dávka

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 68:57


Je pojem duše dnes ešte adekvátny, alebo je presnejšie hovoriť o slobode a determinizme? Aký je rozdiel medzi filozofiou a vedou a prečo Heidegger tvrdil, že len filozofia myslí, zatiaľ čo veda nie? V čom je problematická karteziánska predstava tela a duše ako dvoch radikálne odlišných vecí a čo nové nás naučila v tejto veci plasticita mozgu? O týchto a ďalších otázkach sa Jakub rozpráva s českým filozofom Petrom Koubom.----more----

LE BONHEUR C'EST LES AUTRES
Ariel Wizman: "La vraie éducation c'est en silence"

LE BONHEUR C'EST LES AUTRES

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2025 31:33


En juin 2025, j'ai invité Ariel Wizman dans la bibliothèque de l'ECUJE pour l'avant-dernier épisode enregistré pour Le Bonheur c'est Les Autres.Être passionnant, à la fois animateur et DJ, philosophe et homme d'affaires (Miniso en France c'est lui), il est marqué par son histoire personnelle, ses origines marocaines et son judaïsme puisé aux meilleures sources (il fût commensal d'Emmanuel Levinas quand il était élève interne à l'ENIO).Pour lui, le bonheur est un équilibre. Un équilibre entre « ce qui vient et ce qu'on pense ». Pour lui aussi, croire et mettre Dieu dans sa vie c'est assurément la rendre moins difficile.Transcendance, puissance de l'éducation « en silence », hommage à sa femme, et bien d'autres sujets profonds (ou moins) parsèment cette interview de celui qui, tous les dimanches désormais, raconte une « histoire truculente » sur France Culture.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bildningsbyrån
Emmanuel Levinas - filosofen som såg etiken i ett ansikte

Bildningsbyrån

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2025 28:30


Efter att ha överlevt Förintelsen ville filosofen Emmanuel Levinas tänka om från början. Levinas föddes i Litauen och var verksam i Frankrike. Han utvecklade en filosofi där ansikte mot ansikte-mötet står i centrum. För honom handlar etik om att ta ansvar för den andre, något han själv prövades hårt i under andra världskriget. Genom sin uppgörelse med samtidens tänkare och egna erfarenheter efterlyste Levinas en etik där vi ser varandra som unika och oersättliga individer. Hans idéer har fått stort inflytande långt utanför filosofin.

Filosofía, Psicología, Historias
Levinas y el encuentro cara a cara

Filosofía, Psicología, Historias

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2025 4:19 Transcription Available


El rostro del Otro y la responsabilidad como fundamentos para una humanidad más justa y sensible

Modus
Du prancūzų spektralistai

Modus

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 55:01


Kai kalbama apie spektralizmą, dažniausiai minimos Gerard‘o Grisey, Tristano Murail‘aus ir Hugues‘o Dufourt‘o pavardės: jos jau pažįstamos „Modus“ klausytojams. Tačiau prie spektralizmo plėtros nemažiau prisidėjo ir dar du kompozitoriai: Michaëlis Levinas (g. 1949) ir Roger Tessier (g. 1939). Jų kūryba nusipelno ne mažesnio dėmesio, o štai Michaëlis Levinas yra Kaune gimusio pasaulinio garso filosofo Emmanuelio Lévino sūnus ir save neretai pristato ne tik kaip prancūzų kompozitorių, bet ir kaip litvaką. Levino ir Tessier muzika gerokai praplečia įprastinę spektralizmo sampratą.Laidos autoriai Šarūnas Nakas ir Mindaugas Urbaitis.

Overthink
Neighbors

Overthink

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 59:42 Transcription Available


What does it mean to love thy neighbor? And who counts as a neighbor in the first place? In episode 139 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about neighbors. They think through the parasocial relationships that hold between us and those who live near us, how the values of our neighbors affect our lives, and how neighborly relations blur the public/private distinction. They use the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of the neighbor as “the Other” to think about the experience of moral responsibility. And they consider how our relationships with neighbors differ from other relationships? To what extent do we choose our neighbors? How do wealth and class shape our experience of living-with-others? And what actually makes a neighbor a neighbor? In the Substack bonus segment, your hosts question whether we have specific ethical obligations to our neighbors and discuss cultural differences in how people view their neighbors.Works Discussed: Mark Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties” Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than BeingHannu Ruonavaara, “The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations”Anna Strhan, “And Who is My Neighbour? Levinas and the Commandment to Love Re-examined”Support the showSubstack | https://overthinkpod.substack.com/ Website | overthinkpodcast.comInstagram & Twitter | @overthink_podEmail | dearoverthink@gmail.comYouTube | Overthink podcast

Filosofía, Psicología, Historias
¿Quién es el otro?

Filosofía, Psicología, Historias

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 4:11


El otro es aquel que es como yo, igual a mí, pero diferente.

5 Star Tossers
Fracking: A Priva(tiza)tion of Earth and Soul

5 Star Tossers

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025 94:16


Hello audient! (Jake says we have one more but I know it's still, as always, just you...)So we did an episode about fracking. Missing Jack on this one...We had a lot to say. But it was all pretty depressing. Still, as someone else had probably already said (#nocuck), if you don't open your eyes in the dark they could never get used to it (and see the little light that's left).Fracking is a technology meant to extract oil and gas, not from underground repositories or "pockets," but from rock; to penetrate inside the rock, to take what the rock had locked away within. The process involves (ab)using a great deal of water, making it irrevocably toxic, and shooting it at high pressure, within the rock, so as to break its integrity; widening cracks, and keeping these cracks open for more pressure to break them down further. The toxin in the water serves to capture the released oils and gases in a way that is more effectively extracted. It also proceeds to seep into the ground, poisoning water supplies, plants, animals, causing cancer......and all with a certain impunity. It is this impunity that we are (angrily) tossing towards. Yes, in both meanings of the word. We wanted to look at fracking as the technological manifestation of a certain logic that... "inspires" let's say our political and ethical assumptions. This logic, once understood, can be seen everywhere (as well as its results): the ret-con of lovable stories and characters (until all the love is sucked out and all the fans feel betrayed); the abuse of language/discourse by/in Social media (punishing empathy with toxicity - this is deliberate and done by innumerable bots); austerity measures leading to social collapse (by way of undercutting/humiliating local values)...Blaise Pascal wrote a line in his 'Pensees' that Levinas liked to cite: "'That is my place under the sun' is how the usurpation of the world began." Thinking of other belief-structures, non- or pre-Monotheist, we offer a critique of this quote insofar as it assumes a Christian 'I'. It is this I's possession that usurps the world. And we do see fracking a doing just that. John Locke shows us the logic of this possession: claiming the land as 'private property' gives me absolute power over it. Just like with the industrial revolution's effect on the climate, and with the same impunity. This is a metaphysics, an understanding, that did not occur before, or outside of, Monotheism. And it is dangerous because it is only a totality - human, all too human - but armed with claims to infinity. Fracking doesn't wait for time. It has no time. It follows a logic of hunger, but a desperate hunger, the resentful hunger of the slave. This hunger will even suck the marrow from the bone. Fracking, not just literally, leaves no stone unturned.That is how the usurpation of the Earth began.This, pathetic, impunity has no honor. it is the impunity of the starved and desperate; the impunity of ressentiment, of the shit-eating grin. Even when it rules, as it does nowadays, it has no power to call its own, no pride or anchor. It sees no future (like a Bull seeing red..).There was so much more (and less) in the pod, if you have the mental fortitude. We had Derrida, Bataille, and even Israel made an appearance.. Too many Stars in this episode.

18Forty Podcast
Daniel Hagler and Aryeh Englander: Can Jews Who Stay Talk With Jews Who Left? [OTD 2/4]

18Forty Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 127:44


18Forty is celebrating its fifth year LIVE in NYC on June 9. Reserve your seats today!In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, David Bashevkin moderates a dialogue between Aryeh Englander—the ex-Orthodox Jew known as “Philo Judeas,” who is a moderator of the ambitious Frum/OTD Dialogue Facebook group—and Daniel Hagler, a frum surgeon and a moderator of the Facebook group Respectfully Debating Judaism.  Together, we talk about seeking meaning, uncovering religious truths, and making the most of the precious gift we call “life.” In this episode we discuss: How do we know if Judaism is “real” and true? How is a religious commitment like a romantic one? Which is more important: Judaism being true or Judaism being useful?Tune in to hear a conversation about the ways in which we chase truth and determine how we ought to live our lives. Interview begins at 19:29.Follow-up Hagler interview begins at 1:19:04. References:18Forty Podcast: “Philo Judaeus: Is There a Room for Dialogue?”Judaism on Trial: Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages by Hyam MaccobyReality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. ChalmersTzidkat HaTzadik 4118Forty Podcast: “Rav Moshe Weinberger: Can Mysticism Become a Community?”“Worlds Together” in MishpachaJewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein by Hilary PutnamNo Country for Old Men (2007)Slate Star CodexEruvin 13bHow Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky18Forty Podcast: “Malka Simkovich: The Mystery of the Jewish People”A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion by Rabbi Jonathan SacksNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyKiddushin 30aLeviticus 10:16For more 18Forty:NEWSLETTER: 18forty.org/joinCALL: (212) 582-1840EMAIL: info@18forty.orgWEBSITE: 18forty.orgIG: @18fortyX: @18_fortyWhatsApp: join hereBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/18forty-podcast--4344730/support.

L'heure bleue
Ronald Chammah : "Levinas est le premier à m'avoir fait confiance"

L'heure bleue

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 47:28


durée : 00:47:28 - La 20e heure - par : Eva Bester - Homme de l'ombre, Ronald Chammah consacre sa vie à mettre en lumière le cinéma. Pilier de la restauration, de la revalorisation et de la diffusion du patrimoine cinématographique, il défend inlassablement les films du répertoire.

Acid Horizon
The Anarchist Imaginary: Nicolas de Warren on Glissant, Levinas, and a New Radical Ethics

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2025 75:33


Craig's designs: https://www.etsy.com/shop/critdripThe Ordeal: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-booksPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/acidhorizonpodcastWe are joined by philosopher Nicolas de Warren to explore his concept of the anarchist imaginary, drawn from his essay "Anarchism, the Shock from Elsewhere: Glissant and Levinas". Together, we unpack how anarchism operates not merely as a political program, but as an ethical and temporal force—a heterotopia that resists monolingualism, sovereign authority, and the foreclosure of otherness. Nicholas discusses the right to opacity, indirect reciprocity, and an anarchist ethics of reading that dismantles institutional power while cultivating new forms of literacy and solidarity. Drawing on the work of Glissant, Levinas, Derrida, and others, this conversation maps a terrain where impossibility becomes the site of political and philosophical renewal. We also reflect on the prospects for anarchist institutions, public pedagogy, and the future of thought in an age of digital unthinking.Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast, S1
223. The Life Wisdom Project | From Ritual to Reason: A Journey from Plato to Levinas | Special Guest: Dr. Michael Poliakoff

GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast, S1

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 34:34 Transcription Available


Questions? Comments? Text Us!How do rituals, traditions, and philosophical reasoning shape our understanding of the divine and the human experience?In this episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Michael Poliakoff explore the evolution of thought and tradition from ancient Jewish practices and Egyptian influences to the philosophical insights of Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, and Emmanuel Levinas.The conversation examines how humanity has sought wisdom across cultures and eras—from the Torah's laws to Aristotelian virtue, Confucian ethics, and Levinas' concept of “the other.” How do ritual and habit shape moral understanding? And what happens when tradition gives way to reason?Key Themes in This Episode:Ritual and Ethical Evolution – From Jewish law and Confucian rites to Aristotle's philosophy of virtueJonah and Nineveh: God's Call Beyond Borders – What it means to be “chosen” and how divine purpose extends beyond any single traditionLevinas and the Ethics of the Other – How encountering another person transforms our understanding of self and moralityThe Power of Tradition in Daily Life – From religious rituals to simple habits, how they shape human interaction and spiritualityBreaking Down Borders: Ancient Thought and Modern Philosophy – How wisdom from across cultures connects in the search for meaningThis episode presents a rare exploration of how ritual and reason interact—not just in religious practice, but in the very fabric of human thought. Whether you're interested in philosophy, history, or spirituality, this discussion offers insights that transcend time and tradition.Other Series:The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:From God To Jerry To You- a brand-new series calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.Two Philosophers Wrestle With God- sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have. What's On Our Mind- Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series episodes. What's On Your Mind- What are readers and listeners saying? What is God sayingResources:THE LIFE WISDOM PROJECT PLAYLISTStay ConnectedSubscribe to the podcast for free, and explore the book God and Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin, available on amazon and at godanautobiography.com.Share your thoughts or questions at questions@godandautobiography.com—we'd love to hear your story of God!

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
Religion, 'Allegorical Objects' and Levinas with David Black, PhD (London)

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 56:26


“The idea of analytic neutrality, which was more or less a cliche truth when I was training back in the 1980s, is clearly getting at something very important, which is that we mustn't try to pre-conceive where the patient's development is going to take him or her. But that doesn't mean that the development is not in a direction. Aristotle famously said that the human being is a ‘zoon politikon', a creature who belongs in a somewhat structured society. Healthy development is in that sort of direction as we become more integrated, as our ‘ghosts become more like ancestors', to use that famous metaphor. We become more aware of the reality of other people and their real as opposed to their fantasy importance in the ecosystem of which we are all part. And this makes possible the sort of ethical realization that Levinas was talking about. We recognize the reality of the other. We discover that we are interconnected. We are part of something that is hugely greater than ourselves and that goes beyond our knowing. But of course, that doesn't mean that we are not also selfish and unique selves. It's that we are under pressure, so to speak, from both quarters.”  Episode Description: We begin with David's description of Freud's view of religion as offering  "compellingly attractive" illusions in the face of the helplessness we face by life's and death's unpredictability. Alternatively, David suggests that religions provide 'objects', ie Gods, that are importantly allegorical and offer an ‘ethical seriousness' over time. We discuss the ability of these allegories to offer possibilities of 'transcendence' in a world that he sees as often limited to the material. He presents Levinas' view of the responsibility we all have when encountering "the face of the other" - a responsibility that is not chosen but "slipped into my consciousness like a thief." We consider the ethical differences between one's superego and one's conscience. We close with David sharing with us the vicissitudes of his early life that, as for us all, form a context for our later interests.     Our Guest: David Black studied philosophy and Eastern religions before training in London, first as a pastoral counsellor and later as a psychoanalyst. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, now retired, who has written widely on psychoanalysis in relation to matters of ethics and religion. In 2006 he edited Psychoanalysis and Religion in the Twenty-first Century. He has published two collections of his own psychoanalytic papers, most recently Psychoanalysis and Ethics: the Necessity of Perspective. He is also a poet and translator, whose translation of Dante's Purgatorio was published in 2021 in the New York Review of Books Classics series. (It was later the winner of the annual American National Translation Award in Poetry.) Visit David Black's website at: https://www.dmblack.net.    Recommended Readings: Black, D.M. Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective. (2024: Routledge New Library of Psychoanalysis.)   Chetrit-Vatine, V. Primal Seduction, Matricial Space, and Asymmetry in the Psychoanalytic Encounter. (2004: International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85: 4.   Lear, J. Wisdom Won from Illness. (2017: Harvard University Press.)   Lemma, A. First Principles: Applied Ethics for Psychoanalytic Practice. (2023: Oxford University Press.)   Levinas, E. Ethics as First Philosophy. In The Levinas Reader, ed. Sean Hand. (1989: Blackwell Publishing.)   Loewald, H. Papers on Psychoanalysis. (1980: Yale University Press.)

New Books Network
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 81:20


In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." In Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (Stanford UP, 2021), Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Jewish Studies
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)

New Books in Jewish Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 81:20


In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." In Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (Stanford UP, 2021), Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

New Books in Intellectual History
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)

New Books in Intellectual History

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 81:20


In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." In Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (Stanford UP, 2021), Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

New Books in European Studies
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)

New Books in European Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 81:20


In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." In Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (Stanford UP, 2021), Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

New Books in Religion
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)

New Books in Religion

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 81:20


In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." In Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (Stanford UP, 2021), Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

New Books in French Studies
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)

New Books in French Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 81:20


In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." In Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (Stanford UP, 2021), Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies

En pistes, contemporains !
La Métamorphose - Je, tu, il : Levinas - Ensemble Ictus

En pistes, contemporains !

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 11:28


durée : 00:11:28 - La Métamorphose - Je, tu, il : Levinas - Ensemble Ictus - Le choix fait par Michaël Levinas de représenter l'irreprésentable est passionnant car il induit des chemins de traverse, un regard qui est oblique, en quelque sorte.

Répliques
Emmanuel Levinas, la pensée juive et la philosophie

Répliques

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2025 51:50


durée : 00:51:50 - Répliques - par : Alain Finkielkraut - Retour sur le parcours du philosophe Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995). - réalisation : Alexandra Malka - invités : Dan Arbib Agrégé et docteur en philosophie.; David Haziza Docteur en littérature française et comparée à l'Université Columbia (New York), chercheur, essayiste et éditorialiste

Microjuris Argentina
La CSJN resolvió que el Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la CABA es el órgano encargado de conocer en los recursos extraordinarios que se presenten ante la justicia nacional ordinaria de la ciudad

Microjuris Argentina

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 4:25


Comentario del Dr. Emilio Romualdi sobre el fallo de CSJN "Ferrari, María Alicia  c/ Levinas, Gabriel Isaías  s/Incidente de incompetencia - Levinas, Gabriel Isaías s/ SAG - otros (queja por recurso de inconstitucionalidad denegado)CV Doctor en Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, UK. Ex Juez del Trabajo, Provincia de Buenos Aires. Director y profesor del Doctorado de la UK. Profesor Titular de Derecho Marítimo, Derecho laboral Individual y Derecho laboral colectivo, UCALP. Profesor titular de Derecho de la Seguridad Social en UAI. Profesor titular en UNR en la Especialización de Derecho Laboral y de la Seguridad Social. Co director y Profesor titular del seminario de investigación en Indae. Ex profesor de práctica forense en la UBA.  Miembro de la Asociación de Magistrados del Trabajo de la República Argentina y de la Asociación de Magistrados y Funcionarios del Trabajo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Secretario General de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Derecho Aeronáutico y Espacial. Autor de publicaciones sobre temas de su especialidad. 

Les chemins de la philosophie
Les publics ne sont-ils que des foules dangereuses ? Gabriel Tarde et Gustave Le Bon

Les chemins de la philosophie

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 57:46


durée : 00:57:46 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann, Antoine Ravon - Au 19e siècle, la foule, groupe visible et tangible, devient objet d'étude, notamment en France et en Italie. Le Bon, dans "Psychologie des foules" (1895), étend ce concept aux publics, comme les lectorats, soumis aux mêmes logiques psychologiques. Quelle est la critique de Tarde ? - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Elena Bovo Maîtresse de conférences à l'université de Franche-Comté, auteure d'une thèse sur Levinas et Derrida; Frédéric Brahami Directeur d'études de l'EHESS (Centre Raymond Aron)

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy
Lecture 2 of Emmanuel Levinas' Totality & Infinity - Key Terms, Mastery, and the Dimension of Height

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 171:07


One of the most beautiful, challenging, and profound works of philosophy. Totality and Infinity is a fundamental challenge to the history philosophy, history, and political thought. He is especially worth tarrying with if you are interested in Marx, Heidegger, or Derrida, much less influenced by Zizek or Land. David McKerracher has been studying Levinas for a long time and is far from an expert, but he has refined his ability to talk about this challenging work in a way that is more accessible and simultaneously in depth than anything else you will find on the internet.   To unlock tons of deep dives with Dave into phenomenology and existentialism, especially with Being and Time and Totality and Infinity, become a subscriber at tier 2 or higher here: https://theoryunderground.com/product/tu-subscription-tiers     ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work for you if not for the fact that Dave, Ann, and Mikey are consolidating hundreds of thousands of hours of effort into a pirate TV-radio-press that goes on tours and throws conferences and stuff. Enjoy a ton of its content here for free or get involved to access courses and the ongoing research seminars.  GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT  Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It's the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground Fund the publishing work via the TU Substack, where original works by the TU writers is featured alongside original works by Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Nina Power, Alenka Zupancic, et al. https://theoryunderground.substack.com/ Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications CREDITS / LINKS Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand via the membership. https://theoryunderground.com/courses If you want to help TU in a totally gratuitous way, or support, here is a way to buy something concrete and immediately useful https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58? Buy Dave and Ann a coffee date: https://www.venmo.com/u/theoryunderground  https://paypal.me/theorypleeb If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB  Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI  See Theory Underground memes and get occasional updates or thoughts via the Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk  

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy
Lecture 1 of Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2024 147:27


One of the most beautiful, challenging, and profound works of philosophy. Totality and Infinity is a fundamental challenge to the history philosophy, history, and political thought. He is especially worth tarrying with if you are interested in Marx, Heidegger, or Derrida, much less influenced by Zizek or Land. David McKerracher has been studying Levinas for a long time and is far from an expert, but he has refined his ability to talk about this challenging work in a way that is more accessible and simultaneously in depth than anything else you will find on the internet. To unlock tons of deep dives with Dave into phenomenology and existentialism, especially with Being and Time and Totality and Infinity, become a subscriber at tier 2 or higher here: https://theoryunderground.com/product/tu-subscription-tiers   ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work for you if not for the fact that Dave, Ann, and Mikey are consolidating hundreds of thousands of hours of effort into a pirate TV-radio-press that goes on tours and throws conferences and stuff. Enjoy a ton of its content here for free or get involved to access courses and the ongoing research seminars.  GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT  Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It's the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground Fund the publishing work via the TU Substack, where original works by the TU writers is featured alongside original works by Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Nina Power, Alenka Zupancic, et al. https://theoryunderground.substack.com/ Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications CREDITS / LINKS Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand via the membership. https://theoryunderground.com/courses If you want to help TU in a totally gratuitous way, or support, here is a way to buy something concrete and immediately useful https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58? Buy Dave and Ann a coffee date: https://www.venmo.com/u/theoryunderground  https://paypal.me/theorypleeb If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB  Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI  See Theory Underground memes and get occasional updates or thoughts via the Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk  

Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone
Episode #9: What are you going through?: Scott Ritner on Simone Weil's Political Philosophy

Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 63:55


Julie and Scott talk about Simone Weil's astounding biography, including her experiences volunteering for the Spanish Civil War and participating in the French Resistance. We discuss her essays “The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force,”“The Need for Roots,” and “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God.” And we ask, how does war turn us into objects? What is the relationship between openness to God and openness to the neighbor? What might a society of “attention” look like? What are some of the complexities of pacifism and anti-statism? What might mean to create a society of attention? And finally, how does Scott read Weil as a Jewish thinker, necessary for us today?Note: For our use of the term “thingification” see Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism.Other texts and authors discussed:George Herbert, “Love III”Kathryn Lawson, Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for the Anthropocene. Routledge, 2024.Emmanuel Levinas, “Simone Weil and the Bible” in Levinas, Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, Trans. Sean Hand. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.Kenneth Novis.Scott B. Ritner joined the Political Science department at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022 following appointments at SUNY Potsdam (2021-2022) and Temple University (2018-2021). He earned his PhD from The New School for Social Research in 2018. Scott's research focuses on 20th and 21st Century Critical Social Theory, Race & Ethnic Politics, and Popular Culture including literature and music. His manuscript in progress is titled Revolutionary Pessimism: The Antifascist Politics of Simone Weil. He is currently President of the American Weil Society (http://www.americanweilsociety.org). He teaches courses in Political Theory, American Politics, and Comparative Politics. When not researching or teaching, you can [try to] find him in the mountains. His work on Simone Weil can be found in Theory & Event, in various edited volumes, and at H-Net France.

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Matt Bower - Husserl At The Limits

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 89:13


The week Coop and Taylor are joined by Matt Bower to discuss a few sections from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Husserl at the limits of Phenomenology as well as Husserl's The Origin of Geometry. Matt is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University. Matt completed his doctoral work at University of Memphis (2013) and earned by bachelors' degree, also in philosophy, from Beloit College (2007). His area of specialization is post-Kantian European philosophy, especially as it bears on topics in philosophy of mind and perception. He's published several articles about Husserl's genetic phenomenology, some attempting to explain Husserl's method and theoretical ambitions in doing genetic phenomenology and others examining its relation to developmental psychology and as a way to understand the embededness of intersubjectivity in perceptual experience. He's also published articles exploring the phenomenology of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas. Matt's Links: Website: https://sites.google.com/site/mattembower Twitter: https://x.com/noetic_emetic Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh

Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes
Levinas on Buber (Part Two)

Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 78:24


Continuing on "Martin Buber and the Theory of Knowledge," with the "Experience and Meeting" section, whereby we try to make sense of the theory that the self is metaphysically a relation to other people. How does a model of philosophy based on the cogito (first person perception) necessarily objectify other people? How does speaking "to" someone provide a break from this intentional (objectifying) speaking "of" others? Does this relation to others actually require language? Is bringing in animals off-limits in talking about the phenomenology of consciousness? Read along with us, starting on p. 63. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes
Levinas on Buber (Part One)

Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 66:02


We read the first pages of Emmanuel Levinas' 1958 article, "Martin Buber and the Theory of Knowledge." In these initial sections, subtitled "The Problem of Truth" and "From the Object to Being," he's recounting how Heideggerian phenomenology argued that being (including our unarticulated awareness of being) is more fundamental than knowledge (a verbalized, objectifying attitude toward the world attributed to a tradition initiated by Descartes). Read along with us, starting on p. 60 (PDF p. 66). For more about Levinas, you can listen to PEL eps. 145 and 146, plus ep. 71 on Buber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Le chemin de ma philosophie
43. Can ChatGPT think? What Philosophy Says about AI

Le chemin de ma philosophie

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2024 14:11


Can a machine really understand what it means to exist—or are we just falling for smart code? Imagine an AI writing a breakup song that tugs at your heartstrings—now, does that AI feel the heartbreak too? We're diving into this mind-bending question, exploring everything from Aristotle's ancient wisdom to Musk's futuristic Neuralink. Could machines develop emotions, or even their own sense of being? Tune in as we tackle the ultimate question: Is AI on the verge of truly thinking and feeling—or is it all just an illusion?Subscribe to your favorite option:1.

Žižek And So On
A Reader's Guide: The Sublime Object of Ideology w/ Rafael Winkler

Žižek And So On

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 55:02


Exciting news! For the first time Bloomsbury has published a book length overview and guide to Slavoj Žižek's 1989 text The Sublime Object of Ideology and we're talking with it's author Rafael Winkler about his reading of Slavoj Žižek's famous text. Rafael is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He's the author of Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader's Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), Philosophy of Finitude: Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), Identity and Difference (ed.) (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), Phenomenology and Naturalism (ed.) (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), and Identity and Difference: Contemporary Debates on the Self (ed.) (London: Palgrave, 2016) More on the book from Bloomsbury. First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Žižek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that introduced the English-speaking world to Žižek's scorching brand of cultural and philosophical commentary and the multifaceted ways in which he explained it. Tying together concepts from aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies and the philosophy of belief, it changed the face of contemporary commentary and remains the underpinning of much of his subsequent thinking.This compelling guide introduces all of the influential thinkers and foundational concepts which Žižek draws on to create this seminal work. Grounding the text's many and varied references in the work of Peter Sloterdijk, Saul Kripke, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel, amongst others, helps students who are encountering this mercurial writer for the first time to understand the philosophical context of his early explorations. Each of Žižek's key arguments are unpacked and laid out, alongside an invaluable account of how The Sublime Object of Ideology impacted the critical terrain on which it landed. Enjoy!

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"This could save you a TON of time reading hard books" How to read Totality and Infinity by Levinas

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 42:06


Primary texts in the world of philosophy and theory are not easy, and it seems like there is no proper place to begin. This video could save you a LOT of time! You can sign up for the course here: https://theoryunderground.com/courses/levinas-1 Monthly subscribers get 90% off my courses and 50% off all courses taught by other instructors at TU. Subscribe here: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers   ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). CST is the umbrella over critical media theory (CMT), critical doxology and timenergy (CDT), critique of libidinal economy (CLE), critique of political economy (CPE), critique of gender and sex (CGS), and critique of psychiatry and therapism (CPT), critique of science and religion (CSR), and many more. To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work for you if not for the fact that Dave, Ann, and Mikey are consolidating hundreds of thousands of hours of effort into a pirate TV-radio-press that goes on tours and throws conferences and shit like that… It's a crazyfun experiment, and you can enjoy a ton of the content here for free.    GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT  Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It's the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground Fund the publishing work via the TU Substack, where original works by the TU writers is featured alongside original works by Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Nina Power, Alenka Zupancic, et al. https://theoryunderground.substack.com/   Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications   CREDITS / LINKS Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand via the membership. https://theoryunderground.com/courses   If you want to help TU in a totally gratuitous way, or support, here is a way to buy something concrete and immediately useful https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58?   Buy Dave and Ann a coffee date: https://www.venmo.com/u/Theorypleeb https://paypal.me/theorypleeb   If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB  Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI  See Theory Underground memes and get occasional updates or thoughts via the Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground   MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk            

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy
The Month of July at Theory Underground, 2024 - Todd McGowan, Benjamin Studebaker, Michael Downs, Jacques Lacan, Levinas, Bourdieu....

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 6:38


The Sunday events at TU are made just for the TU membership. TU members also get half off all courses taught by other instructors and 90% off McKerracher's courses! Become a monthly subscriber at TU here: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Sign up for Todd's course here: https://theoryunderground.com/courses/mcgowan-1 Sign up for Theory Writing 101 here: https://theoryunderground.com/courses/tw-101   ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). CST is the umbrella over critical media theory (CMT), critical doxology and timenergy (CDT), critique of libidinal economy (CLE), critique of political economy (CPE), critique of gender and sex (CGS), and critique of psychiatry and therapism (CPT), critique of science and religion (CSR), and many more. To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work for you if not for the fact that Dave, Ann, and Mikey are consolidating hundreds of thousands of hours of effort into a pirate TV-radio-press that goes on tours and throws conferences and shit like that… It's a crazyfun experiment, and you can enjoy a ton of the content here for free.    GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT  Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It's the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground Fund the publishing work via the TU Substack, where original works by the TU writers is featured alongside original works by Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Nina Power, Alenka Zupancic, et al. https://theoryunderground.substack.com/   Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications   CREDITS / LINKS Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand via the membership. https://theoryunderground.com/courses   If you want to help TU in a totally gratuitous way, or support, here is a way to buy something concrete and immediately useful https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58?   Buy Dave and Ann a coffee date: https://www.venmo.com/u/Theorypleeb https://paypal.me/theorypleeb   If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB  Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI  See Theory Underground memes and get occasional updates or thoughts via the Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground   MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk            

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy
Heidegger and Levinas? Questions about their relationship and H.'s politics

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 48:04


In preparation for reading Levinas' Totality and Infinity in August, Siu booked an office hours session with McKerracher on the topic of Heidegger's politics and the relation between Levinas and Heidegger.   If you want to be a part of this course, you can either sign up here for full price https://theoryunderground.com/product/levinas-1/   or become a monthly membership subscriber right here for a 90% discount! https://theoryunderground.com/product/tu-subscription-tiers/       Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). CST is the umbrella over critical media theory (CMT), critical doxology and timenergy (CDT), critique of libidinal economy (CLE), critique of political economy (CPE), critique of gender and sex (CGS), and critique of psychiatry and therapism (CPT), critique of science and religion (CSR), and many more. To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work for you if not for the fact that Dave, Ann, and Mikey are consolidating hundreds of thousands of hours of effort into a pirate TV-radio-press that goes on tours and throws conferences and shit like that… It's a crazyfun experiment, and you can enjoy a ton of the content here for free.    GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT  Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It's the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground Fund the publishing work via the TU Substack, where original works by the TU writers is featured alongside original works by Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Nina Power, Alenka Zupancic, et al. https://theoryunderground.substack.com/   Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand via the membership. https://theoryunderground.com/courses   If you want to help TU in a totally gratuitous way, or support, here is a way to buy something concrete and immediately useful https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58?   Buy Dave and Ann a coffee date: https://www.venmo.com/u/Theorypleeb https://paypal.me/theorypleeb   If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB  Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI  See Theory Underground memes and get occasional updates or thoughts via the Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground   MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk            

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy
Totality & Infinity Course Promo | Levinas vs. Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Butler, and Critchley

@theorypleeb critical theory &philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 10:47


Course promo for Levinas' Totality and Infinity at Theory Underground. On sale today! Enroll ASAP https://theoryunderground.com/product/levinas-1/   Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). CST is the umbrella over critical media theory (CMT), critical doxology and timenergy (CDT), critique of libidinal economy (CLE), critique of political economy (CPE), critique of gender and sex (CGS), and critique of psychiatry and therapism (CPT), critique of science and religion (CSR), and many more. To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work for you if not for the fact that Dave, Ann, and Mikey are consolidating hundreds of thousands of hours of effort into a pirate TV-radio-press that goes on tours and throws conferences and shit like that… It's a crazyfun experiment, and you can enjoy a ton of the content here for free.    GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT  Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It's the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground Fund the publishing work via the TU Substack, where original works by the TU writers is featured alongside original works by Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Nina Power, Alenka Zupancic, et al. https://theoryunderground.substack.com/   Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand via the membership. https://theoryunderground.com/courses   If you want to help TU in a totally gratuitous way, or support, here is a way to buy something concrete and immediately useful https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58?   Buy Dave and Ann a coffee date: https://www.venmo.com/u/Theorypleeb https://paypal.me/theorypleeb   If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB  Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI  See Theory Underground memes and get occasional updates or thoughts via the Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground   MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk            

Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone
Episode 2: Humming with: Dr. Sarah Pessin

Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 57:14


Julie and Jason interview philosopher Sarah Pessin about her work on Moses Maimonides and Emmanuel Levinas. What does it mean to know God while not-knowing God? What happens when language fails? How do we “hum with”? How many spheres are there, and how does each have its own intellect? What does Emmanuel Levinas have to tell us about thinking and being with others? How does Levinas imagine a structure of self that helps us to face the world? We also discuss Neoplatonism, phenomenology, the pulse, interfaith work, and Sarah's Jewish childhood in Brooklyn. Sarah Pessin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver. She holds an Interfaith Chair, and works in areas of phenomenology, existentialism, Neoplatonism, interfaith civics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and social justice. She has won a teaching award from the graduate student council of the DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program in the Study of Religion, has served as a Fellow with the American Council on Education, and is the new Director of Spiritual Life for DU's Student Affairs and Inclusive Excellence. She is the author of Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast, S1
170. The Life Wisdom Project | Insights from Hasidic Tradition and Philosophical Ethics | Special Guest: Dr. Michael Poliakoff

GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast, S1

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 32:42 Transcription Available


Join God: An Autobiography, The Podcast for profound discussions on spirituality, philosophy, and human connection. This Life Wisdom Project explores the fascinating intersection of Jewish wisdom, erotic energy, and the Yetzer Harah (evil urge). Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Michael Poliakoff engage in thought-provoking dialogue, drawing insights from Jewish scholars like Martin Buber and exploring sanctifying the ordinary in daily life.From discussing the divine implications of the Yetzer Harah to examining the ethical teachings of Emmanuel Levinas, this episode offers a rich source of ideas for listeners interested in exploring the deeper dimensions of human existence. The conversation spans from ancient Greek philosophy to modern-day Jewish ethics, highlighting the enduring relevance of age-old wisdom in navigating the complexities of contemporary life.Unpack the significance of integrating the shadow self, embracing imperfection, and building institutions guided by reason and reverence. Whether seeking spiritual guidance, philosophical insights, or practical wisdom for everyday living, this episode explores timeless truths and ethical principles.Dr. Michael Poliakoff is the president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), known for his extensive experience in academia and public service. With a background in classical studies, he has held prestigious teaching positions and received awards for his educational contributions.Relevant Episodes:[Dramatic Adaptation] A New Journey BeginsOther Series:Life Wisdom Project- How to live a wiser, happier, and more meaningful life with special guests.From God To Jerry To You- A series calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.Two Philosophers Wrestle With God- Sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have.What's On Our Mind- Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series of episodes.What's On Your Mind- What are readers and listeners saying? What is God saying?Resources:READ: "Pure being is not an abstraction but a living force."THE LIFE WISDOM PROJECT PLAYLISTHashtags: #lifewisdomproject #godanautobiography #experiencegodShare your story or experience with God! We'd love to hear from you!

Seekers of Unity
Hegel: From Nihilism to Enlightenment

Seekers of Unity

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2023 67:00


Dylan Shaul presents the one of the most important events in modern philosophy, the Pantheism Controversy sparked by the reception of Spinoza in 18th century Germany. The Controversy involved the greatest German philosophers of the period, and laid the foundations for the next 200 years of European thought. In the balance of the Pantheism Controversy hung the fate of the Enlightenment and Modernity; the fate of faith and reason, religion and philosophy; the fate of freedom, of the immortal soul, and even of God Godself. Our story will take us from the renegade Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, to the heyday of the German Aufklärung or Enlightenment, through the philosophical revolution of Immanuel Kant, and eventually the birth of German Idealism itself. In the first episode of the series, we explored the philosophy of Spinoza and its reception in Germany, which first spurred the controversy. In the second episode we explored Immanuel Kant's response to Spinozism and the Pantheism Controversy, where he attempted to stake out a middle ground between reason and faith. In this third episode we'll tackle Hegel's efforts to solve the Pantheism Controversy by reconciling Spinoza and Kant—thereby attempting to complete the grand journey from nihilism to Absolute Spirit. Dylan Shaul is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is titled Hegel's Concept of Reconciliation: On Absolute Spirit. He has also published on Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Adorno, Levinas, Kristeva, and Derrida. See more of his work here: https://www.dylanshaul.com 00:00 Introduction to Hegel 06:04 Substance and Subject: ‘The True is the Whole' 13:30 Hegel's Encyclopedia System: Logic, Nature, Spirit 22:21 Hegel on Pantheism 35:51 Hegel on the ‘Death of God' 54:49 Critical Reception of Hegel 1:02:11 Conclusion Join Seekers: https://discord.gg/EQtjK2FWsm https://instagram.com/seekersofunity https://www.twitter.com/seekersofu https://facebook.com/seekersofunity Support Seekers: https://www.patreon.com/seekers https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU

Ordinary Unhappiness
23: Puns, Jokes, and Serious People feat. Ben Wurgaft

Ordinary Unhappiness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2023 90:11


Abby and Patrick welcome intellectual historian, writer, editor, and noted wordsmith Ben Wurgaft. They talk about Ben's experiences with long-term analysis and discuss ways of accessing low-cost options for psychoanalysis before collectively digging into Freud's 1905 book on humor, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious – especially Freud's jokes about beggars, millionaires, and salmon mayonnaise. They get into Freud's hydraulic model of jokes as a release of pressure; Freud's obsession with Jewish humor; what makes jokes funny, what makes them pleasurable, and what emotions they can express; the relationship of jokes to play, childhood, and the process of education; and what it means to be a serious person. Ben's essay “The Punning of Reason” is here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-punning-of-reason/His essay “The Recline of the West: Couches and Psychoanalysis” is here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-recline-of-the-west-couches-and-psychoanalysis/His book Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt is here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/thinking-in-public-strauss-levinas-arendt-benjamin-aldes-wurgaft/11655520?ean=9780812224344His book Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food is here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/meat-planet-artificial-flesh-and-the-future-of-foodvolume-69-benjamin-aldes-wurgaft/16590129?ean=9780520379008His new book Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture, co-authored with Merry White, comes out later this month: https://bookshop.org/p/books/ways-of-eating-exploring-food-through-history-and-culture-volume-81-merry-white/19949891?ean=9780520392984 Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! 484 775-0107 A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music

Les chemins de la philosophie
Pourquoi la patience ? 2/4 : Levinas, les visages de la patience

Les chemins de la philosophie

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2023 58:07


durée : 00:58:07 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann - Le philosophe Emmanuel Levinas affirmait que la patience implique la relation que nous entretenons avec nous-mêmes et avec autrui. De l'insomnie à l'amour charnel en passant par le sacrifice, que nous révèle la patience lévinassienne de nous-mêmes ? - invités : Catherine Chalier Professeure émérite de philosophie à l'Université Paris Nanterre; Arnaud Clément Professeur et docteur en philosophie de l'université de Caen-Normandie et membre associé de l'équipe de recherche Identité et Subjectivité.