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Danny Anderson And Andrew Pessin
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5 Questions for Interesting People
Five Questions for Interesting (Writers) #8: Andrew Pessin
Today, Danny Anderson interviews Andrew Pessin, author of the new novel Bright College Years, published by Open Books Press.The novel is a fun and emotionally rich story about a group of Yale undergraduates who live together and learn the lessons that will shape their lives. Along the way, Andrew answers the Five Questions, and leads Danny through a rich conversation about campus culture (then and now) and the importance of dealing honestly with friction, both in the past and the present.Plus, Andrew offers some terrific insight about the writing...
2024-07-17
1h 18
The Sectarian Review
Sectarian Review 177: Nevergreen
This week Danny is joined by Andrew Pessin (who previously came on the show to discuss his book The Jewish God Question) to discuss Andrew's new novel Nevergreen, or Acaementia. The novel is a campus satire that explores college culture wars through a Kafkaesque nightmare. Does Cancel Culture exist? How does anti-semitism play into this?
2021-09-23
55 min
The Sectarian Review
Sectarian Review 177: Nevergreen
This week Danny is joined by Andrew Pessin (who previously came on the show to discuss his book The Jewish God Question) to discuss Andrew's new novel Nevergreen, or Acaementia. The novel is a campus satire that explores college culture wars through a Kafkaesque nightmare. Does Cancel Culture exist? How does anti-semitism play into this?
2021-09-23
55 min
The Sectarian Review
Sectarian Review 108: The Jewish God Question
In this episode Danny Anderson interviews Andrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and author of The Jewish God Question. Pessin’s book explores “what Jewish thinkers have said about God, The Book, The People, and The Land.” Divided into many micro-essays that condense difficult philosophical ideas into conversation-starting summaries, the book is aimed at bringing philosophy to the people. How has Jewish philosophy reacted to Western thought since the Greeks? What changed in the Enlightenment period? How did Spinoza upend centuries of Jewish philosophy? What have Jewish thinkers focused on in the Twentieth Century and beyond? In addition, we fin...
2019-02-07
1h 15
The Sectarian Review
Sectarian Review 108: The Jewish God Question
In this episode Danny Anderson interviews Andrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and author of The Jewish God Question. Pessin’s book explores “what Jewish thinkers have said about God, The Book, The People, and The Land.” Divided into many micro-essays that condense difficult philosophical ideas into conversation-starting summaries, the book is aimed at bringing philosophy to the people. How has Jewish philosophy reacted to Western thought since the Greeks? What changed in the Enlightenment period? How did Spinoza upend centuries of Jewish philosophy? What have Jewish thinkers focused on in the Twentieth Century and beyond? In addition, we fin...
2019-02-07
1h 15