Stephen West

Philosophize This!

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Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.

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Stephen West

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Episode #124 ... Simulacra and Simulation 25.10.2018 30:24

Today we begin our discussion of Jean Baudrillard's book Simulacra and Simulation. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosop...

Episode #123 ... Michel Foucault pt. 3 - Power 24.09.2018 21:09

Today we talk about the work of Michel Foucault. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about you...

Episode #122 ... Michel Foucault pt. 2 - The Order of Things 24.09.2018 21:46

Episode #121 ... Michel Foucault pt. 1 15.08.2018 34:19

Today we begin talking about the work of Michel Foucault. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more...

Episode #120 ... Logical Positivism 27.07.2018 26:11

Today we talk about Logical Positivism. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choi...

Episode #119 ... Derrida and Words 25.06.2018 20:29

Today we begin our discussion on the work of Jacques Derrida. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn m...

Episode #118 ... A Basic Look At Postmodernism 21.05.2018 22:44

Today we begin a lengthy conversation on the critiques of Postmodernism. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethiss...

Episode #117 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 2 18.03.2018 26:30

Today we continue to talk about the projects of Structuralism. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn...

Episode #116 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 1 18.03.2018 27:33

Today we begin talking about the initial projects of Structuralism. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow L...

Episode #115 ... Structuralism and Context 28.01.2018 32:05

Today we talk about the origins of Structuralism. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about you...

Episode #114 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 7 - The Great Refusal 23.12.2017 37:52

Today we talk about Herbert Marcuse's concepts of The Great Refusal and The New Sensibility. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...

Episode #113 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 6 - Art As A Tool For Liberation 02.12.2017 22:58

Today we talk about the revolutionary potential of Art through the eyes of Herbert Marcuse. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com...

Episode #112 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 5 - Civilization 06.11.2017 29:31

Today we continue our discussion of Marcuse's work Eros and Civilization. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethis...

Episode #111 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 4 - Eros 20.10.2017 25:00

Today we talk about Freud's views on civilization and the first half of Marcuse's response to them. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.fac...

Episode #110 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 3 - The Culture Industry 07.09.2017 27:49

Today we talk about an important chapter from The Dialectic of Enlightenment entitled The Culture Industry. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https:/...

Episode #109 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 2 - The Enlightenment 26.08.2017 25:35

Today we talk about the Frankfurt School critique of enlightenment style thinking and Herbert Marcuse's book One Dimensional Man. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephen...

Episode #108 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 1 - Introduction 17.08.2017 29:36

Today we talk about The Frankfurt School. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad ch...

Episode #107 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt .3 - Responsibility 29.07.2017 25:43

Today we talk about part three of Simone De Beauvoir's work The Ethics of Ambiguity. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philo...

Episode #106 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt. 2 - The Ethics of Ambiguity 19.07.2017 24:08

Today we talk about the first half of The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philo...

Episode #105 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 6 - The Self 09.07.2017 26:29

Today a cloudy, muddled brain weary from fighting off sickness talks about Sartre's view on the self. Thank you for your patience. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephen...

Episode #104 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 5 - Consciousness is Freedom 01.06.2017 29:16

Today we talk about Sartre's view of consciousness and the notion of radical freedom. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phil...

Episode #103 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 4 - The Quest For Certainty 24.05.2017 31:07

Today we tell a story from the history of philosophy in an attempt to prepare us for understanding the Phenomenology of Sartre. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwe...

Episode #102 ... Heidegger pt. 3 - Authenticity 12.05.2017 31:14

Today we talk about Martin Heidegger and his concept of Authenticity. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow...

Episode #101 ... Heidegger pt. 2 - Science and Technology 30.04.2017 25:46

Today we discuss Martin Heidegger and his views on Modern Technology. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow...

Episode #100 ... Heidegger pt. 1 - Phenomenology and Dasein 14.04.2017 30:42

Today we begin our discussion of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger by looking at his roots in Phenomenology and his revolutionary concept of Dasein. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://tw...