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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

By: Mark Linsenmayer Wes Alwan Seth Paskin Dylan Casey
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 The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.© 2024 The Partially Examined Life LLC Philosophy Social Sciences
Episodes
  • PEL Presents NEM#131: Ward White Audited

    PEL Presents NEM#131: Ward White Audited
    Sep 14 2020

    Ward has issued about ten releases of lyric-driven, stylish pop since 2003. We discuss the title track from Leonard at the Audit (2020), "Titans" from Diminish (2018), and the title track from Pulling Out (2008). Intro: "Sabbath" from Ward White Is the Matador (2014). End: "Bubble and Squeak," also from the new album. For info see wardwhite.net.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • PEL Presents (sub)Text: The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s "Rear Window"

    PEL Presents (sub)Text: The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s "Rear Window"
    Jun 26 2020

    L.B. Jefferies has the perfect girlfriend—beautiful, intelligent, wealthy—but too perfect, he insists, for marriage. And so he spends his time spying on the love lives of his neighbors, and ropes his girlfriend into this project as well. Which, strangely enough, turns out to be a really effective form of couples’ therapy. What’s the connection between voyeurism and what Jefferies calls “the intelligent way to approach marriage”? Wes and Erin discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window.

    Thanks to CranioDsgn for permission re-purpose his poster for the cover art.

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    Bonus content: The conversation continues on our after-show (post)script. Get this and other bonus content at by subscribing at Patreon.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • PEL Presents (sub)Text: Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s "King Lear"

    PEL Presents (sub)Text: Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s "King Lear"
    Apr 17 2020

    Do we owe parents our gratitude for our upbringing? What if they haven’t done such a great job? And anyway, perhaps we inevitably resent all the forces that have shaped the characters that confine and limit us. If so, the quest for filial gratitude is ultimately hopeless. It could even be a kind of madness: a foolish attempt to transcend the same formative forces that we resent in our parents, to be “unaccommodated,” free of the “plague of custom.” Wes and Erin discuss William Shakespeare’s King Lear.

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    Bonus content: The conversation continues on our after-show (post)script. Get this and other bonus content at by subscribing at Patreon.

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    1 hr and 26 mins
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