Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part Two)

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PEL Presents NEM#248: Lande Hekt: Lucky to Be Indie

Lande started in the 2010's in the British punk-pop group Muncie Girls, with six releases (mostly EPs), and began her solo career in 2019. We discuss "Coming Home" (and listen at the end to the title track) from her fourth solo album Lucky Now (2026), "80 Days of Rain" from Going ...  Show more

Ep. 386: Hegel on Society (Part Two)

Continuing on the "Spirit" section of The Phenomenology of Spirit, giving a sort of social metaphysics, wherein the ethical life of a society is analyzed into two complementary types of law, human (explicit laws but also customs) and what Hegel calls "divine" (a subconscious ethi ...  Show more

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