Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meri...

In this episode, Tamler and David discuss The Odyssey Books 15 & 16, in which father and son (and father figure and son) are reunited, and in which the Odysseus and Telemachus start planning their revenge against the suitors. 

Tamler and David discuss Books 13 & 14 of The Odyssey. Odysseus finally makes it to Ithaca and meets up with Athena, gets a disguise, and has a chat with his most loyal slave Eumaeus. 

In this episode, Jason A. Staples, Ph.D. and Erik Rostad discuss Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy. Show Notes Jason A. Staples, Ph.D. website – https://www.jasonstaples.com/ Jason’s upcoming book to be published by Cambridge University Press – ...  Show more

Two new episodes have been recorded about Blood Meridian that provide a better discussion and more details: Blood Meridian with Erik Rostad Blood Meridian Discussion with Dr. Jason A. Staples & Erik Rostad In this episode, Jason Staples and Erik Rostad discuss book 29 of the 2017 ...  Show more

Concluding our close reading of Being and Time, on ch. 3, sec. 15 and 16 on the world as "ready to hand" or equipment. If you're not hearing the full version of this part of the discussion, sign up via one of the options described at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support. 

Act II of Season Three comes to an end.CW: depiction/discussion of religious fundamentalism, gore, reference to death by monster, frank discussion of historical sex work, bodily injury and disability, apparent death by hanging, emotional trauma, endangerment of a child, historica ...  Show more