The HBS hosts discuss the many and varied ways we lie to ourselves.
For our final episode of each season, we take up a text or concept in philosophy that has crept out of the discipline and made it into the wider popular consciousness and culture. This week, we’re talking about Jean-Paul Sartre’s idea of “bad faith” (mauvaise foi) from his text Being and Nothingness.
[Trigger Warning: at around 24 minutes, we have a brief discussion of people ending their lives. You can jump ahead to minute 28:15 if you prefer to skip this part of our conversation.]
In this episode, we discuss the following thinkers/ideas/texts/etc.:
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, particularly Part I, Chapter 2, “Bad Faith”
- The blaming of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the crash of a ship into the bridge in Baltimore
- The “xz bug” that was caught before it brought down the internet
- Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Our previous episode on lying (Season 9, Episode 127)
- Emotional labor
- Sadness is not depression
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason
- Our recent episode on psychoanalysis
- Vincent Descombes, Modern French Philosophy
As we end Season 9, we say goodbye to co-host Jason Read, who is stepping back from the microphone. Jason will still be writing books, like his most recent The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work (click that link and buy his book!0, doing amazing work as a public philosopher and devoting more of his time to local activism. Rick and Leigh want to express their most heartfelt gratitude for Jason’s work on HBS for the last 45 episodes (Seasons 6-9), and also to let him know that we’ve always got a barstool saved for him!
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