Answers!
If you love reading fiction, and you LOVE closure, you're going to mildly like today's episode! In the final episode of season 1, Na'ama and Melanie c...
You Kant Say That!
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Do you get excited by questions more than answers? Do you like showing off at parties with random knowledge? In this podcast, sociologists and social theorists Drs Melanie White and Na’ama Carlin take everyday ideas and explore them through different sociological and philosophical perspectives. Season 1 focuses on the notion of the 'self' as explored in common sociological texts. Join us, in our mission to make the familiar unfamiliar!
The cat has no clothes
One day Jacques Derrida got out of the shower and realised he was caught naked by his cat, who was staring at him. What followed (get it) was a 10 hou...
Blowing bubbles
Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944) is a founder of the field of behavioural physiology. He explored what makes ticks... tick. But how does Uexküll's work s...
Life finds a way
Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) was an influential philosopher, nobel prize winner, and international celebrity. He is the epitome of philosophy in action...
Bad to the core - a moral (r)evolution
This week we consider the work of Frans de Waal, a primatologist exploring empathy in primates. Are humans bad to the core? What do we have in common ...
Who's hungry?
Monkey sounds safe words and breast milk, oh my! This week, we look at the French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004), and things get wild. Derr...
Labour pains
This episode we look at the man, the myth, the beard, the Comrade to end all Comrades: Karl Marx. Other than developing the foremost critique of capit...
Are you feeling discontent?
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) changed how we think about ourselves and our relation to others. He set out to understand the nature of human psychic life i...
I am, I exist so long as I am...
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) was the founder of the French tradition of Sociology and as sociologists we are contractually obligated to talk about him. ...
Ah ha! At last, I have discovered it
René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French philosopher and mathematician. Descartes shaped modern philosophy, but what did he have to say about the self?...