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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Book Club, June 2017)
This is the wrap-up video for the first month of the book club. This month we read, Robert Pirsig’s classic philosophical road trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This month I’m joined by Kalid Azad of BetterExplained.com to … Continue reading
NPR Pirsing Interview 1991
This interview with Robert Prisig was done just after the publication of Lila, Robert’s 2nd book.
Philosopher Queens: Discovering forgotten female thinkers
Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are just a few well-known ancient philosophers. But what about their female counterparts? What about the woman who taught Socrates? Or the sage said to be behind Plato’s theory on love? Their names are often lacking … Continue reading
Sitting by the fire with a nomadic tribe, a physicist ponders the many shapes of wisdom | Aeon
The Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli is a pioneer in the field of quantum gravity, and often thought of as one of the world’s foremost scientific thinkers. In this brief animation by James Siewert, which features narration from the Swazi-English … Continue reading
Welcome to The Kindness Economy
How do you connect human kindness with commerce? Rising through the ranks of the retail sector in the late 1980s and 90s, Mary Portas learned to put profit first and people second. By the time she was 31, she was … Continue reading
Shakespeare & Post-Structuralism | Unemployed Philosopher
Create your own scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: https://mixtheplay.britishcouncil.org/ Blog: http://www.thepetitebritette.wordpres… Follow my books & fashion on Instagram: http://instagram.com/petitebritette twitter: @PetiteBritette Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/63… tumblrs: http://little-nerdasaurus.tumblr.com/ & http://www.spiffing-books.tumblr.com bookmark shop: https://sites.google.com/site/spiffin…
Modernism vs Postmodernism | Unemployed Philosopher
Reading List: Modernist Theory Texts: Huyssen, Andreas, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism http://www.bookdepository.com/After-t… Mary Ann Gillies and Aurelea Mahood (eds.), Modernist Literature: An Introduction http://www.bookdepository.com/Moderni… David Ayers, Modernism: A Short Introduction http://www.bookdepository.com/Moderni… Ann L. Ardis, Modernism and … Continue reading
How To Count Past Infinity
Sources and links to learn more below! I’m very grateful to mathematician Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard, for taking the time on multiple occasions to discuss this topic with me and help me wrap my (finite) … Continue reading
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