Philosophy vs. Improv #87: Mystic Toaster with Simon Critchley
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Simon is a professor at New York's New School for Social Research and moderates the New York Times' philosophy offering, The Stone. He joins Mark and Bill to discuss his new book, On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy, and we used the occasion to explore how art and mysticism might be connected, including engaging in improv rituals.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. If you enjoy this podcast, perhaps you'd like to sign up for my Cortex in Philosophy |
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| 0:18.8 | This is philosophy versus improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, |
| 0:24.1 | and maybe you, the audience, gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:27.1 | This is Mark Lintonmeyer, peering into the mystical depths of philosophy. |
| 0:31.3 | And this is Bill Arnett, peering from the mystical depths, looking up. |
| 0:36.2 | Is anyone seeing me? |
| 0:38.5 | Is there anyone out there? |
| 0:43.4 | I can see. Oh, there we go. Thank you. And welcome to our guest. Please introduce yourself. |
| 0:50.2 | Simon Critchley. I teach philosophy at the New School for Social Research, which is where I'm speaking to you from. |
| 0:56.7 | And the author of Guardians' Book of the Day. And number one in the, what was the category that you just posted about on Facebook? Acult magic. Occult magic category. Mysticism. Occult slash magic? |
| 1:05.1 | Occult and magic? Do they, are they similar? Are they the same? Are we? There's not a cult magic. It was |
| 1:10.6 | occult magic. And's occult magic. |
| 1:11.8 | And there's a... |
| 1:12.6 | Just the regular mainstream magic that's different than the occult magic. |
| 1:17.1 | Not card tricks. No card tricks. |
| 1:18.8 | Oh, I see. |
| 1:19.7 | There's more magic with a CK. |
| 1:21.5 | No, sadly, no CK. No, it was more of a... |
| 1:24.4 | It was, it's... |
| 1:25.6 | It's, yeah, it was that like New Age spirituality. I mean, God knows |
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