Scholar and philosopher Wesley Barker talks about living your life when you deal every day with complex thought—as well as the importance of getting out of your head and embracing being a beginner.
Episode artwork: Władysław Czachórski, Zadumana (Deep in Thought), 1883. US public domain image courtesy The National Museum in Warsaw and Wikimedia Commons.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
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Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Augustine of Hippo
Robert B. Brandom A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology
Jasmine Cobb New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair
Simon Critchley Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm
Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault Confessions of the Flesh
Michel Foucault "About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self" in Religion and Culture (ed. Jeremy R. Carrette)
Witold Gombrowicz A Kind of Testament
Witold Gombrowicz Ferdydurke
G. W. F. Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit
Luce Irigaray
Mark. D. Jordan
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
Jean-François Lyotard The Confession of Augustine
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Tom Nichols The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
Philip Roth The Human Stain
Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds
