Episode #170 ... Albert Camus - The Fall

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

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

*Mental Health Resources* America: https://afsp.org/ Canada: https://cmha.ca/brochure/preventing-suicide/ In this episode, I present Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilos ...  Show more

Thanks so much for listening! Here’s the book I mentioned in today’s episode:The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World https://g.co/kgs/49u53wAnd here’s Gwendolyn Brooks’ amazing poem for Paul Robeson.Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn Brook ...  Show more

Today’s quote is from French novelist, philosopher, and Nobel Laureate Albert Camus, whose words challenge us to be present in every experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

In this episode of Podverse: We start off examining everyday questions and answers with a twist. Then we delve into conditioning and mull over the effect if any it might have on us as a society. You get the question of the week and we set a task for ourselves as usual. Finally I ...  Show more