Not School Digest: Sartre, Heidegger, Zizek, Marx, and Theater

"Excerpts from PEL podcaster & listener discussions on Sartre’s Nausea, Heidegger’s “The Question Concerning Technology,” Slavoj Zizek’s Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Marx and Engels’s “Communist Manifesto,” Peter Schaffer’s play Equus, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. Plus an interview with Hillary Sydlowski, leader of the Not School Introductory Readings in Philosophy Group.

This Digest (our first since last August) is jam-freakin’ packed, with folks moaning over difficult texts and crooning over easy ones. We’ve got good microphones side by side with terrible microphones so you can learn the difference! Wacky sound effects! A song (“Messed Up People” by The MayTricks, from 1994′s Happy Songs Will Bring You Down) spread out over two places but yet still not adding up to one whole song! The first minutes of several conversations, you know, before everyone got warmed up and comfortable! A commercial that sounds like real content, and some real content that sounds like a commercial! Such a thing is to be missed only if you have an ear infection! (We do that so you get the summary: you still learn what these works are about even just listening to these little bits, and you don’t have time to get bored.)

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