In this video, philosopher Skye Cleary introduces her new book, Existentialism and Romantic Love. If you skip past the rather awkward acting of Simone de Beauvoir’s play Who Shall Die, from about the sixth minute onward things become interesting. In a style that has become her own—treading lightly (and gracefully) between scholarly analysis and a lighter, more popular Continue Reading …
Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre
Via openculture.com, check out these lectures by Walter Kaufmann, who did most of the good Nietzsche translations you'd pick up nowadays and was the teacher of Frithjof Bergmann whose name I drop a lot on the show (who was in turn teacher of Robert Solomon). -Mark Linsenmayer Continue Reading …
Topic for #29: Kierkegaard’s “The Sickness Unto Death”
We'll be digging into the reputed "father of existentialism," who takes his Christianity very personally and thinks the rest of you are a bunch of sheep, thank you very much. In the ole' Sygdommen til Døden, Mr. K. writes as "Anti-Climacus," a pseudonym which he brought out when feeling frisky, much like Richard Bachman. Did you know that you're in despair? I bet you Continue Reading …