The HBS hosts talk about transcendence, the good kind and the bad kind.
Philosophers traditionally have thought of entities like God or Ideas as outside of or other than this world. At the same time, that transcendent reality is thought to be the cause or meaning of our reality. Is this the only kind of transcendence? Do we need transcendence? Perhaps politics and/or justice requires some notion of transcendence. Can we have a good transcendence without the bad?
In this episode, we discuss the following texts, philosophers, ideas, and things:
- Everything is Alive podcast
- Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness
- Rick’s The Thought of Matter: Materialism, Conceptuality, and the Transcendence of Immanence
- Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History“
- The “Music” episode from Season 2
- Aristotle’s Poetics
- Picasso, “Woman in a Chemise in an Armchair“
- Adorno, Minima Moralia
- Aretha Franklin, “How I Got Over“
- Richard Fish from Ally McBeal
