Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald
Dr Andrew McDonald with several years of teaching experience at the University of Dundee takes listeners through a close reading of philosophical texts that allow us to delve into a deeper understanding of them. It is friendly to those new to philosophy and gives easy to understand examples throughout.
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140 episodes
Episode 122| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | One Dimensional Philosophy
In episode one hundred and twenty two of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter seven of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.com...
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Episode 121| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | Science and the Perpetual Struggle
In episode one hundred and sixteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter six of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew e...
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Episode 120| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | Philosophy, The Search for Truth and the Privileging of the Intellectual Life
In episode one hundred and twenty of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter five of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew e...
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Episode 119| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | One Dimensional Language
In episode one hundred and nineteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter four of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew...
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Episode 118| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l The Artist and Culture in PreIndustrial Society and in 1960s Society
In episode one hundred and eighteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter three of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNe...
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Episode 117| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l From Marx's Industrial Society to 1960s Society
In episode one hundred and seventeen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter two of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew...
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Episode 116| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l Totalitarianism and One Dimensional Thought
In episode one hundred and sixteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter one of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew e...
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Episode 115| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Urbanism and Detournement
In episode one hundred and fifteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapters seven and eight of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.com...
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Episode 114| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Time and the Spectacle
In episode one hundred and fourteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapters five and six of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.com
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Episode 113| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l A History of The Spectacle
In episode one hundred and thirteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter four of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew...
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Episode 112| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l The Spectacle and Globalisation, Politics, Celebrities and Banality
In episode one hundred and twelve of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter three of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew ...
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Episode 111| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Commodities as a Spectacle
In episode one hundred and eleven of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter two of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew ep...
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Episode 110| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l The Spectacle
In episode one hundred and ten of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter one of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew epis...
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Special Episode 18| Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy| Socrates' Removal of the Dionysian
In the eighteenth special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses Socrates' removal of the Dionysian from the Apollonian and Dionysian dynamic.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail...
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Special Episode 17| Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy| Apollonian and Dionysian Art
In the seventeenth special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses Nietzsche's concepts the Apollonian and Dionysian.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew episodes e...
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Episode 109| Interview with Frank Ruda l The Relevance of The Communist Manifesto
In episode one hundred and nine of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses with Frank Ruda, the relevance of the communist manifesto.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew...
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Episode 108| Interview with Frank Ruda l How Do We Think Like The Proletariat?
In episode one hundred and eight of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses with Frank Ruda, the question of how do we think like the proletariat? Frank argues that this question pervades the History of Marxism. Feel ...
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Episode 107| Interview with Frank Ruda l Part 3 of The Communist Manifesto
In episode one hundred and seven of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses with Frank Ruda, part 3 of Marx and Engel's Communist Manifesto.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.com...
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Episode 106| Interview with Frank Ruda l Marx and Engel's Ideas of The Bourgeoisie, The Proletariat And Communism
In episode one hundred and six of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses with Frank Ruda, Marx and Engel's ideas of the bourgeoisie, the proletariat and communism.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissecting...
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Episode 105| Interview with Frank Ruda l Marx and Engel's Use of History and The Bourgeoisie
In episode one hundred and five of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses with Frank Ruda, Marx and Engel's use of history and delve into their concept of the bourgeoisie. Feel free to send questions or comments to d...
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Episode 104| Interview with Frank Ruda l Reading Marx and His Relation to Hegel
In episode one hundred and four of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses with Frank Ruda, the problems of reading Marx and the relation to Hegel, from Marx's early disagreement to his later returning back to Hegel's p...
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Special Episode 16| Aristotle's Metaphysics| Problems with Plato
In the sixteenth special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the second half of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 1.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew episodes eve...
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Special Episode 15| Aristotle's Metaphysics| Problems with the PreSocratics
In the fifteenth special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the first half of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 1.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comNew episodes ever...
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Episode 103| Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism l Ideology and Terror Part 2
In episode one hundred and three of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he finishes discusses the section Ideology and Terror in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.Feel free to send questions or comments to dissect...
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Episode 102| Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism l Ideology and Terror
In episode one hundred and two of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the section Ideology and Terror up until the first break in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.Feel free to send questions or comme...
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Episode 102
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