A sentence-by-sentence interpretation of Heidegger's "On the Essence of Truth," (1943) first half, by Mark and Seth, recorded Feb. 3, 2015. Heidegger describes truth as "unconcealment," as "letting beings be the beings the are," and thinks that this is more informative than the traditional correspondence theory (propositions match reality), which he thinks already Continue Reading …
Close Reading (Preview) of Kant on the Sublime
Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan read and interpret Kant's Critique of Judgment, sections 23-25. This is a 13-minute preview of a 72-minute bonus recording, which you can purchase at partiallyexaminedlife.com/store or get for free here with PEL Citizenship (see partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership). You can also purchase it at iTunes Store: Search for "Partially Examined Kant Continue Reading …
Get a Jump on Sartre with a Close Reading of Being & Nothingness
Our Sartre episode will still take a couple of weeks probably to edit and post, but you needn't wait for that brain-crushing Sartre experience. To supplement the episode, I've recorded a new kind of podcast file: half an hour of guided reading through the opening pages of Being and Nothingness. This also marks the first for-sale audio product made specifically for this this Continue Reading …
Close Reading: Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness,” Section I
Mark reads the section line by line, stopping every sentence or two to explain what's going on. The point is to teach you how to decode a difficult text, to make you more comfortable reading any text deliberatively and critically. Recorded 11/19/11. This was released in association with our ep. 47 on Sartre and serves as a compliment to both it and to our more recent ep. 87, Continue Reading …