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29 | Sartre and the Question of Philosophy (Patreon)

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2022-01-10 10:06:19
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In this episode, we read Jean-Paul Sartre's Search for a Method. We begin by working through Sartre’s puzzling claim that Marxism is this era’s one true philosophy and then branch out into broader questions concerning what it is we are trying to do when we philosophize and whether Sartre was right not to give up on capital-T “Truth.” Other topics include Sartre’s conception of freedom, the relationship of the individual to history, and the problems of dogmatic Marxism up to the present day. This one is sure to delight, and it's just the start for us with old J-P!

References:

Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Vintage Books, 1963)

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

Comments

Stephen Dozeman

Great conversation! I've been slowly but surely working my way through the CDR and was glad for Will's enthusiasm for it. It's a weird text I struggle with, but I also can't shake the feeling that it's doing something really important (in some place more than others). Very much looking forward to the eventual episodes on that!

Ian Laue

Great job guys, I've been waiting for a Sartre episode

Drew Levanti

Props to Owen for his killer audio quality

Drew Levanti
>>75576133

But seriously so grateful for y’all’s continuing labor intellectual and otherwise. As someone outside the academy whose philosophical leanings feel out of place in the non-academic worlds I move in, you are giving me so much to ponder, pollinating my work in ways I could not do alone. Thank you so much.

Trevor Ryan

Thanks for this. Back in the 90s a good friend and I were security guards at the library at UT Knoxville. We mostly read Sartre on the roof in out cute uniforms. Turns out we were legit.

Rich Jensen

That Deleuze quote got me teary.. no lie

Carson H

Read Search for a Method a while back and was really impressed. Loved hearing you guys talk about it. Cheers.

Mary Kate Dugan

This episode inspired me to pick up Existentialism is a Humanism - the first philosophical work I've read since college. I'm enjoying the pod. Thank you!

ceifeiro
>>76721005

Funny, their discussion of Sarte reminded me of that very essay that I picked up back when I was in high school.