Jun 30, 2019
How does one rebel ethically? Can revolution be ethical if it strives for the absolute ideals of justice and equality? What is the role of freedom and mortality in politics and our existential being within our experiences of capitalism?
These and other questions are the subject of this week's episode as Comrade David joins us to read through The Rebel by the French-Algerian existentialist/absurdist philosopher and essayist, Albert Camus. As always with Comrade David, we also manage to relate rebellion and absurdist philosophy to comics, Ariana Grande, and the occult with a healthy dose of shit-talking along the way.
Yeet. Yeet.
Further Reading/References
- Analysis and Summary of The Rebel
- Albert Camus Biography
- Absurdist Philosophy
- Krushchev's Speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU
- The Algerian War
- The Myth of Sisyphus
- Marquis de Sade
- Latreamont
- Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own
- The Frankfurt School
- Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom
- Daryl Davis and Talking with KKK Members
- Podcast and Summary of Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
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