Hey folks, we have not advertised close reads, philosophy with Mark and Wes on this feed recently,

so I wanted to blast you with a preview of the beginning of a series that Wes and I have been recording for the past three weeks on close reads and I anticipate there will be at least five parts to it, maybe more.

This is on Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a key continental philosophy, phenomenology author

that we covered a long time ago on partially examined life and as part of an episode from just a few years

ago but we definitely have owed him more systematic treatment.

So this is where you will get that.

If you want to hear some less systematic treatment of Merleau-Pontonte is also the subject of the philosophy versus

improv live on stage episode recorded just a couple weeks ago that will be up on the philosophy

versus improv feed next week so go subscribe to philosophy

versus improv if you haven't done that already.

Now before this series on close reads we did a series on Heidegger on technology.

We recorded supplements on our recent William James and Plaitinus Partially

Exam and Life Series.

We recorded on Levenas, Descartes, Isa, Berlin, Hegel.

We've been doing this for well over a year now and are up to 64 recordings.

There are three ways you can listen to Close Reeds.

First, just look up Close Reed on your favorite podcast app,

and you'll find our fairly newly launched public feed through

evergreen podcasts which sports around half of our content over 30 episodes to

date close to an hour each so so that is absolutely free.

The home page for that feed is close reads philosophy.com.

The second way of listening to close reads is just to become a partially examined life citizen,

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