Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes
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Mark and Wes dissect dense philosophy texts line-by-line.
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Reading through difficult philosophy texts line-by-line to try to figure out what’s really being said.
Reading through difficult philosophy texts line-by-line to try to figure out what’s really being said.
Recent episodes
Horkheimer & Adorno on The Odyssey (Part One)
May 20, 20261h
Lionel Trilling on Sincerity (Part One)
May 1, 202659 min
Galen Strawson Against Narrativity (Part One)
Apr 9, 20261h
Kierkegaard on Knowledge (Part Two)
Mar 12, 202655 min
Kierkegaard on Knowledge (Part One)
Mar 6, 202659 min
Hegel's "Unhappy Consciousness" (Part Two)
Feb 5, 20261h 3m
Hegel's "Unhappy Consciousness" (Part One)
Jan 31, 202655 min
Latour on Materialism
Jan 20, 20261h 5m
Fanon on Hegel
Jan 10, 20261h 4m
Aquinas and Scotus on Law (Part One)
Dec 18, 202557 min
Josiah Royce on Interpreting Other People
Dec 12, 20251h 8m
Hegel on Reason (Part One)
Nov 14, 202558 min
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