Moral Minority
Moral Minority is a podcast on moral philosophy and the problem of moral foundations. Why does morality matter? What grounds the moral principles to which we appeal when making judgments about right and wrong, justice and injustice? Do we have good grounds for making the judgments we do make–in our everyday lives, our relationships, our work, or in politics? And if not, where does that leave us?
Moral Minority
Moral of the Story: Hannah Smart on Meat Puppets
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Hannah Smart, the noted David Foster Wallace scholar, returns to the show to discuss her debut novel, Meat Puppets. Smart writes metafictions anchored in the anxieties of the human heart. Meat Puppets is an ambitious first novel that, like the work of the late David Foster Wallace, is alternately uproarious, absurdist, and sad. In this discussion, we talk through some key themes of her novel, including the porousness of personal identity, the alienation of celebrity, and the relationship between verisimilitude and metafiction. It is relatively spoiler free and many surprises and delights remain for the reader.
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