SIO238: Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Love
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today we bring you something not at all COVID (or politics) related. We recorded a wonderful interview with Skye Cleary back over a month ago, just before the pandemic changed all our lives. We thought it would be a much needed change of pace. Skye is a philosopher who teaches at Columbia University, and is the author of Existentialism and Romantic Love (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life (Vintage 2020).
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. Oh Jamie Jamie, I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:34.4 | How you doing? |
| 0:35.2 | I am super excited tonight. |
| 0:38.2 | Oh, yeah, why is that? |
| 0:40.0 | We have a phenomenal guest. |
| 0:42.7 | That's awesome. I'm excited too. Why don't you tell the audience who our special guest is today? |
| 0:47.7 | So our special guest is Sky Cleary. She is a philosopher and author of existentialism and romantic love and the co-editor of how to live a good life, a guide to choosing your personal philosophy with Masimo Pigliucci and Daniel Kaufman. |
| 1:03.0 | She teaches philosophy and leadership at Columbia University and Barnard College |
| 1:08.0 | and most importantly she is just an all-around wonderful human being. |
| 1:12.0 | So I'm so enthused she's here tonight. |
| 1:14.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:16.7 | Welcome, Sky. Thanks so much for coming on. |
| 1:18.9 | No, thanks so much for having me. I take it then we're not going to be raging about politics today sounds like maybe not the topic no no maybe |
| 1:26.4 | maybe we'll just set that aside for the time being and and try to enjoy some of the light that's still left in the universe |
| 1:33.0 | awesome I'm so excited to talk to Sky. |
| 1:36.4 | Jamie, do you want to lead us off? |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, so Sky, you are most well known for your work on existentialism and romantic love but I'd like to begin |
| 1:45.9 | with the new book how to live a good life can you tell us a little bit about that project |
| 1:51.3 | how it came to be and what's included in it. |
| 1:54.0 | So sure the idea for the book came about from a discussion that Musimo and I had on |
| 2:01.2 | YouTube about stoicism and existentialism and we were both saying how philosophy had radically |
| 2:08.1 | changed the course of our lives and so we decided that you know maybe we should write a book about this and what came about was we decided to ask a bunch of people, but other philosophers who kind of specialized in certain philosophies, but |
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