Close Reading (PREMIUM) of Kant on the Sublime
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Mark and Wes go line-by-line through a chunk of the Critique of Judgment to help you feel confident decoding Kant and other difficult texts. This is a 13-min preview of a 72-min bonus recording. Citizens, log in and listen now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mark Linson-Mire, which I'm about to hear as a short preview of a new bonus |
| 0:10.0 | product, a close reading, or my section of Constant Critique of Judgment, beyond what |
| 0:14.9 | we just covered in the recent episode, this time covering the sublime. |
| 0:18.6 | A full file features me and Wes Alwyn, and runs an hour and twenty minutes. |
| 0:23.2 | A close reading is just that. |
| 0:25.2 | We read a particularly difficult text, sentence by sentence, and discuss what each sentence |
| 0:28.8 | means. |
| 0:29.8 | This is a great way to learn the terminology of a very difficult thinker, and if you're |
| 0:33.2 | new to philosophy, a demonstration of strategies for figuring out any difficult text. |
| 0:38.1 | We're not presenting this as if we were experts, as if we were conch scholars, that's not |
| 0:41.8 | the point. |
| 0:42.8 | The point is to allow you to share in this experience of discovering the ins and outs of a difficult |
| 0:47.0 | text. |
| 0:48.0 | To hear the full discussion, you can go to parsleyexaminedlife.com slash store and purchase it very cheaply |
| 0:53.6 | as a one-off product, or you can get it plus all the other bonus content we've ever created |
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| 1:01.2 | You can do that for just five dollars, get a heap of content, if you don't unsubscribe |
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| 1:08.8 | for the year, and you'll get all of our future offerings like this as well, and we do have |
| 1:12.4 | more of these close readings planned. |
| 1:14.2 | You can also do a search for this product on the iTunes store. |
| 1:18.6 | Also, the latter pleasure, that is sublimity, is very different in kind from the former, |
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