Existentialism Tagged Episodes

Simone de Beauvoir

January 7, 2024

Simone de Beauvoir is often cast as only a novelist or a mere echo of…

Simone de Beauvoir relaxing on a red couch, surrounded by books.

Kierkegaard

May 7, 2023

Philosophy usually suggests a striving for rationality and objectivity. But the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard…

Portrait of Søren Kierkegaard, influential 19th-century philosopher.

Heidegger

September 25, 2022

Best known for his work Being and Time, Martin Heidegger has been hailed by many as…

Martin Heidegger, renowned philosopher, sits at his desk surrounded by books and papers.

Camus and the Absurd

November 8, 2020

Albert Camus is most famous for his existential works of fiction including The Stranger as…

Black and white portrait of Albert Camus, author of The Stranger, embodying the philosophy of the absurd.

Existentialism

August 5, 2007

Being and Nothingness, the for-itself and the in-itself, bad faith, and the existential predicament; these…

Edvard Munch's The Scream; a figure with hands over its ears, expressing anguish against a swirling, blood-red sky. Existential dread is palpable.

Nietzsche

August 3, 2004

Nietzsche. Ken and John and Übermensch-at-large Brian Leiter discuss everyone’s favorite syphilitic philosopher. Was he…

Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, portrait

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