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Intellectual History May 19, 2022

The Belief in Intuition

Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano

Hosted by August Baker
Within the Western tradition, it was the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler who laid out and explored the nonrational power of "intuition" at work in human beings that plays …
Intellectual History April 21, 2022

Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals

Pamela Hieronymi

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An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment" P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper …
Anthropology April 13, 2022

How to Do Things with Emotions

The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures

Owen Flanagan

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How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures (Princeton UP, 2021) is an expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can …
Critical Theory April 8, 2022

At the Risk of Thinking

An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva

Alice Jardine

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At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine …
Psychology April 1, 2022

The Zen of Therapy

Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

Mark Epstein

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A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year’s worth of therapy sessions with his patients to observe how his training in Western psychotherapy and …
Psychology February 23, 2022

On Second Thought

How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life

William R. Miller

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The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or. You can love and hate, want to go and want to stay, feel both joy …
Psychoanalysis February 1, 2022

Debating Relational Psychoanalysis

Jon Mills and His Critics

Jon Mills

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In Debating Relational Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2020), Jon Mills provides an historical record of the debates that had taken place for nearly two decades on his critique of the relational school, including responses …
Psychoanalysis January 24, 2022

Vitalization in Psychoanalysis

Perspectives on Being and Becoming

Amy Schwartz Cooney and Rachel Sopher

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In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Being and Becoming (Routledge, 2021), Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic …
Intellectual History January 14, 2022

Dangerous Minds

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right

Ronald Beiner

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Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having …
Psychoanalysis November 23, 2021

Discourse Ontology

Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan

Christos Tombras

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We interview Dr. Christos Tombras, a supervising psychoanalyst with a Lacanian orientation, practicing in London. Dr. Tombras is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK, and …
Psychoanalysis November 17, 2021

Freud

An Intellectual Biography

Joel Whitebook

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We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook works in Critical Theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School …