Featuring Mark Linsenmayer, Jason Durso, Khary Robertson, Leland Gregory, Andrew Miles, Michael Burgess, and Tammy Gottschling. Recorded July 28, 2013. On the first 50 pages of the (still not published in full) work, a few months prior to our podcast interview with the author. I think we all agreed that the problem Bergmann identifies is legitimate and urgent: that it's Continue Reading …
Frithjof Bergmann on the Post-Work Culture for Not School
Might as well get this crush of Not School-related posts up in one wash so we can get on to other things... In our Marx episode we talked at the end about what happens after technology makes all of our jobs obsolete. I purposefully cut that line of discussion short because we're planning a whole episode on it, which will involve either reading works by or (if I can make it Continue Reading …
The Self and Selfishness (and Aesthetics and “The Fountainhead”)
I'm continuing to try to get some Rand thoughts related to The Fountainhead out of my system so that I won't feel the need to bring them up while on the episode devoted to her more straightforwardly philosophical works. I also feel the periodic need for synthesis, to try to recap some ongoing themes in our episodes in a way that would require an overly long monologue if I tried Continue Reading …
Philosophical Mavericks: Pirsig, MacIntyre, Solomon, Bergmann
I made the point both on the episode and in a recent post that I thought MacIntyre to be a better model of the outsider philosopher than Pirsig. This is not a point I really want to hammer, as I like Pirsig and I don't relish dissing someone that many of our listeners have a great appreciation for. So let me just clarify what I mean re. this "maverick philosopher" designation. Continue Reading …
More on Bergmann’s “New Work”
Here are the main elements of Frithjof's Bergmann's idea of "New Work" (introduced in this post) as he taught it back at U. of Michigan. 1. Developing a calling. Work can sap our will to live, but the right kind of work can be invigorating. If it's an enterprise you can identify with, that's meaningful to you, then it becomes part of "the good life" that philosophy is always Continue Reading …
Political Idealism and Frithjof Bergmann’s “New Work”
I had intended to wait for some upcoming episode more relevant to this topic than Husserl to start ranting on this on the blog, but it's been much on my mind of late. As you may know from my mentioning it at every possible opportunity on the podcast, probably my favorite undergrad prof. at U. of Michigan was Frithjof Bergmann. He was a student of the major Nietzsche scholar Continue Reading …