Derrida

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Episode 187: Interpretation

June 20, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

Grab a drink and buckle up—this is the kind of philosophical brawl you don’t want to miss.

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Episode 182: Tragic Temporality (with Sean Kirkland)

May 16, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics 0 Comments

Sean Kirkland unpacks living on the edge of “was” and “not yet.”

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Episode 172: Ambiguity

February 21, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

When nothing is clear, how do we decide?

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Episode 171: Trust

February 14, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Can anyone be trusted anymore?

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Episode 170: Judgment

February 7, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Who gets to judge right and wrong? And on what grounds?

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Episode 169: Responsibility

January 31, 2025 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How, and for what, are we responsible?

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Episode 161: Ethics, Democracy, and Phronesis (with Dimitris Vardoulakis)

November 22, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

The HBS hosts discuss what is lost in the critique of instrumental thinking with Dimitris Vardoulakis.

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Episode 159: Nature

November 8, 2024 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Technology 0 Comments

What do we mean when we say “Nature”? And what, if anything, is “natural”?

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Episode 155: Zionist ressentiment, the Left, and the Palestinian Question (with Zahi Zalloua)

October 11, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

What can Fanon and Nietzsche teach us about the Israeli/Palestinian crisis?

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Episode 151: Whose Jesus? (with John D. Caputo)

September 13, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

When did Jesus start hating immigrants and gays, loving guns and capitalism?

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