You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys, where at one

point said I'm doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 290 is something like what is the relationship between human

nature and symbolism.

Red chapters one through five of Suzanne Langer's philosophy in a new key, in 1942, plus some

of us looked at Ernst Casseurs and essay on man from 1944.

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This is Mark Linton-Meier, my own generative idea in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin perceiving and wishing that he was not symbolizing time in Austin,

Texas.

This is Wes Alon symbolizing not signifying in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey announcing my presence as a sign of my attendance in Madison, Wisconsin.

Hey, hey, hey, this was supposed to be an extension of aesthetic stuff, but we're not

going to talk about aesthetics today.

The first half of this book is all preliminary.

So maybe we'll get to aesthetics next time.

Seth, you had suggested this rather because you physically possessed it.

Do you want to get us started up with your impressions here?

I think that I originally picked up this book, maybe in grad school, maybe before grad school,

but I had in my mind that it was somehow associated with Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung and these

kind of archetype.

It was something I always was interested in looking at, and because it resonates with

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