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Episode 30: Was the Woke Mind Virus Created by French Philosophers?

Episode 30: Was the Woke Mind Virus Created by French Philosophers?

FromTerrifying Questions


Episode 30: Was the Woke Mind Virus Created by French Philosophers?

FromTerrifying Questions

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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Oct 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Were poststructuralist, postmodern, postrespectable French philosophers like Michel Foucault the real masterminds behind identity politics, critical race theory, cultural appropriation, and pumpkin spice latte? Will civilization survive the rampant, unchecked questioning of grand narratives? Join Taylor and Eric as they unravel this bundle of phone cords and contemplate equality, freedom, civility and mutual respect, Foucault’s historical counternarratives, pronouns, green hair, nose rings, and the myth of trigger warnings. 
Released:
Oct 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Eric Kaplan, a comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) and doctor of philosophy, and Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University), a distinguished but humble authority on matters of existence and existentialism, host a philosophy podcast that addresses the most unsettling questions concerning human life and the nature of things and finds a path to courage using comedy, imagination, and far-ranging intellectual philosophical investigation. Along the way they grapple with the deep uncanniness of being.