INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN LUTY (“MADI”), RHIZASTANCE PODCAST (AUGUST 18, 2023)
In this interview, I discuss the topics of philosophy, dignity, belonging, and loneliness in the context of my two books Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity, and A Continental Guide to Philosophy, and my review article “The Problem of Loneliness.” I also offer a revision of my concept of “conditional dignity” in this interview.
Live Reading of part 3 of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totallitarianism (November 3, 2020)
In this video, I help host a live marathon-reading (nearly 12 hours) and discussion of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. I am joined by co-hosts Samantha Rose Hill, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Kathleen Jones, Thomas Bartscherer, and readers and conversation partners such as Seyla Benhabib, Peg Birmingham, Anne O’Byrne, Masha Gessen, Roger Berkowitz, Serena Parekh, Yasmin Sari, Roy Tsao, Robert Eaglestone, Sarah Churchwell, and many others.
INTERVIEW WITH JEFF CRILLEY ABOUT MY WORK WITH THE CELMENTE COURSE IN THE HUMANITIES (2017)
In this interview with Jeff Crilley, I discuss the Clemente Course in the Humanities (Free Minds Dallas) I directed in Dallas, Texas in 2017.
INTERVIEW WITH XAVIER BONILLA, CONVERGING DIALOGUES PODCAST (FEBRUARY 2, 2022)
In this interview, Xavier Bonilla and I discuss many figures and concepts in continental philosophy. We begin by discussing the distinction between analytic and continental philosophy. We discuss Plato and his conception of reality, the allegory of the cave, and logos; René Descartes’ methodology, cogito, and free will; David Hume’s epistemology, sentiments, free will, and racial naturalism; Immanuel Kant’s concepts of a priori and a posteriori knowledge; Friedrich Nietzsche as a philosopher of difference, his ideas around self-knowledge and self-education, culture, and many challenges to culture; and Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the political life as authentic living, plurality, intersubjectivity, human dignity, and human rights.
INterview with Samantha Rose Hill: Thinking in Dark Times (March 29, 2020)
In this interview, Samantha Rose Hill and I discuss the “timeless space” of the pandemic, Hannah Arendt, human dignity, reading Proust, our interdependence upon one another, what it means to appear without artifice, and the pleasures of small things.
Talk: The Symbolic Self and the Dialectic of Fashion (2014)
This is an audio recording of a talk I gave at The Sixth Annual Smoke Farm Symposium (2014) on the phenomenology of fashion. I examine the question “Why is there fashion at all?”, and I argue that fashion is linked to human embodiment and the fact that we are symbolic creatures who are oriented to aesthetic value and social creatures who are driven to conformity and distinction.
John Douglas Macready 