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In our search for human conditions, we continue our zig-zag journey through philosophical history. Today we are slightly deviating from the format in discussing three thinkers: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault. Sartre wrote a play in 1944 called Huis clos which depicted hell as a house with three people in it, who constantly interrupt one another — that’s hell, for him. So let us enter this hell: we begin with the two existentialists in the first half and go on to F...
In our search for human conditions, we continue our zig-zag journey through philosophical history.
Today we are slightly deviating from the format in discussing three thinkers: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault. Sartre wrote a play in 1944 called Huis clos which depicted hell as a house with three people in it, who constantly interrupt one another — that’s hell, for him.
So let us enter this hell: we begin with the two existentialists in the first half and go on to Foucault in the second.
Allons-y!
In the podcast series Human Conditions Julien, Rolf and David zig-zag through time and space, travelling through philosophical history, investigating a condition that affects us all: the human condition.