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We’ve all heard of the term “emotional labor”, but do we know where the term comes from, or what exactly it means? Check out this brief explainer thread on the concept of emotional labor 👇
Overthink Podcast
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Overthink Podcast
@overthink_pod
Philosophy podcast + YouTube channel hosted by professors @ellieanderphd & @DrPenaGuzman1. The "You're Wrong About" of philosophy, according to Hi-Phi Nation ;)
Joined October 2020
- Butler: the person who saw the trouble in genderWhat a subtitle.
- "There is no 'inner self,' according to Merleau-Ponty. We know ourselves only in & through the world...We as humans are in a constant state of becoming & this means we don't have fixed essence." — @ellieanderphd on The Phenomenology of Perception. Full lecture on our YT channel!
00:00 - KIERKEGAARD AND ANXIETY: A 🧵 (By Sydney A.) Is ignorance bliss? A response by Søren Kierkegaard: innocence may be blissful, but only in its ignorance.
- What does it mean to be marginalized? Does marginalization give some people more epistemic authority than others? These questions and more are discussed in our new episode on Standpoint Epistemology, featuring an interview with @ms_brizzle!
- Grew up: Being Currently: Nothing Could see myself: Becoming
- Nothing like the joy of finally getting to read @Skye_Cleary's new book on authenticity and Simone de Beauvoir's existentialism 🥳💚@ellieanderphd
- A lot of you have been commenting that Ellie seems hungry in our Camus video because the mic picks up a stomach growl. You'll be happy to know that she made some oatmeal right after finishing the video
- Check out our new video on Kierkegaard and anxiety! Kierkegaard’s concept of anxiety is hugely important, especially if you’re interested in existentialist thinkers like Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, and de Beauvoir.
- Our merch is live!!! We put a lot of time and effort into designing these pieces entirely ourselves (shoutout to our student assistants Aaron and Emilio!) and we hope you love them! You can find the whole line at shop.overthinkpodcast.com, with a bunch of colors/options.
- David and Ellie tackle their biggest and most meta question yet in a new video: what is philosophy? They discuss everything from the philosophical canon to David's paper "The Groundlessness of Philosophy" to probe the boundaries of their discipline. youtu.be/BCjA57MP6hk
- From Edward Said's 1994 book Representations of the Intellectual, this passage shows Said's standards for what an intellectual is and does. Do you have any favorite intellectuals who live up to these principles?
- PHILOSOPHY GRAD SCHOOL: a 🧵 The decision to go to grad school is one that can only be made with the circumstances/goals of each student in mind. However, here are some concerns/questions @ellieanderphd + @DrPenaGuzman1 would present to any student going to them for advice. 1/9
