Why Theory

A good show for critical theoretical philosophy and psychology applied to film and pop in ways that go around the block from how I first learned them. Freud’s Superego, Hegelian Dialectic, Lacan’s Gaze and many other concepts get interpretations that often go against common use and stimulates listeners disagree as much as to nod along

longtime hegel head here and i’ve finally come to a breaking point with hegel that I think needs to be addressed. Does Hegel make a distinction between negation and affirmation?? I believe Nietzsche does and I tend to agree there is a difference. Negation is 1 dimensional, linear. Whereas Affirmation extends beyond linearity into infinite dimensions precisely because it is a form of memory. We could say affirmation represents memory/materiality whereas negation represents (some) energy. Thoughts?

And would you please do an episode on Baby Reindeer?

Absolutely amazing podcast. The hosts are phenomenal ;) I would love their take on the Pittsburgh Hegelians (especially Brandom’s semantic reading of the intro to the Phenomenology).