You were listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our questions for episode 391 are something like, what is modernity, and how can we best defend it?

And we read Jürgen Habermas's, the philosophical discourse of modernity from 1985,

specifically lectures one, two, and five.

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This is Mark Linsonmeyer engaged in a communication theoretic retrieval

and transformation of the reflective

concept of reason in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, demythologizing to dispel enchantment,

which is appearing to me as a confusion between nature and culture in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Awan, still trying to create normativity out of myself in Cambridge,

Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey, hoping we might break the spell of mythic thinking without

incurring the loss of the light radiating from the semantic potential preserved in myth in Madison,

Wisconsin. And our special guest. It's me, John Gaines, and I am stripping the presence relationship to the future of any relevance

for understanding the past.

I don't know what that means, but I guess we'll figure it out.

Well, it seems like that the joke for just about all of us here was that Hopper mouse is wordy.

Oh, my God.

Very, very difficult.

John, you had blogged about this in light of

Habermoss's passing away. Yeah. Sort of get us started on why this text, why is this important now,

and actually say something about your book, too. Oh, sure. So I'm the author of when the clock broke,

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