142: Commands, Symbols & Games - Nietzsche, Cassirer & Wittgenstein on Language

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141: Ernst Cassirer - Language & Myth

In this episode, we're venturing into the life and thought of Ernst Cassirer, the last humanist of the Enlightenment tradition. Cassirer is widely known today for his debate with Heidegger at Davos, in which Cassirer appeared as the old style philosopher against the new world sig ...  Show more

140: Anti-Schmitt

This is an audio version of the first two sections of a planned series of political writings, gathered under the name Antipolitik: I. The Birth of the State at the End of Warre, and II. Anti-Schmitt. I've grouped them under the name Anti-Schmitt because these two sections form a ...  Show more

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