Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode I have back on the

show Philosopher Matt Siegel to talk about his newest work which is really a publication

of his dissertation. He got his PhD in philosophy with this work called Crossing the Threshold,

a Theoric Imagination in the Post-Contien Process Philosophy of Shelling and Whitehead. And

I certainly know that people who are not in philosophy or not trained in philosophy might

think that title sounds challenging. Above and beyond what they're capable of comprehending,

but I promise you if you struggle and challenge yourself to kind of learn we lay out some

of the basic philosophical concepts we're working with and then this picture emerges of the

way that Matt thinks, the way he's engaging with philosophy and it is dialectical to its core.

It is all about the things I talk about here on the show whether I'm talking about Buddhism

or dialectical materialism or doing our dialectics deep dive series. It is constantly re-dressing

and coming back to this dialectical way of apprehending the cosmos, apprehending our

place in it, apprehending our deep connections with the earth and nature as expressions of

the earth and nature, overcoming this delusion of separateness that we feel and Matt is doing

that work as well at the high levels of philosophy. So I really appreciate his work and the vision

that emerges from it which we talk about at length in this episode is absolutely in line

with the vision that emerges hopefully from RevLeft Radio as a whole and all the work

I do which I can think of and conceptualize as absolutely pointing in the same exact direction

that somebody like Matt is pointing in and so many other thinkers whether in philosophy or

outside of it have pointed in from marks to the Buddha to Alfred North Whitehead which we talk

about in this episode and many many other figures. So this is really powerful, important moving stuff

and I just can't say enough kind words about Matt and his work so I'll leave it at there for now.

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