Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
Running through some of the most beloved texts in Western political philosophy. They are loved for their ingenuity and beauty. But they are respected and believed for their screeching authoritarianism. You might see episodes on...Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau. Hegel, Nietzsche, Zizek, Pettit, etc.
Podcasting since 2025 • 20 episodes
Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
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The End!
Trying to summarize the vast terrain we traversed on this podcast. Final episode.
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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21:13
Our Boy Slavoj: Totalitarian Fun With Žižek!
A vast and wild oeuvre it is, but the non-stop flirtation with extreme authoritarianism, even "terrorism" and "war communism," is hard to miss. Plato, Hegel, Marx: so much of what we've talked about runs together here, in revival. SZ seeks to i...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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27:36
Western Political Philosophy is a Tissue of Fictions
Summing up many of the developments seen in this podcast, we can say that Western political philosophy consists primarily of mere fictions. It's romantasy. from Plato to Rawls. It's cute! It's sweet! If you deleted the fiction, you'd have delet...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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16:09
Philip Pettit: Strictly Fictional Totalitarianism
Pettit's astonishingly evil and entirely fictional political philosophy, which might be termed "classical liberal totalitarianism".Previous attacks on Pettit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUz6jqVz4W1LUHFMNemTIGVcPECivNvYC
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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24:31
