The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part Two)

Continuing on What is Literature? (1948). Sartre gives a phenomenology of reading and writing that makes reading into a creative act of completing the writer's work, and calls this cooperation ethical: the work is an appeal to the reader's freedom, and also the reader's responsibility to then know what the work reveals. Are you shirking, all you skimmers? Start with <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/04/01/ep212-1-sartre/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">part one</a>, or get the unbroken, ad-free <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/04/01/ep212-sartre-citizen/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Citizen Edition</a>. <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/support" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Please support PEL!</a> End song: "Things I Shouldn't Have Told You" by Sam Phillips, as interviewed on <a href="http://nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/nem90-sam-phillips/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nakedly Examined Music #90</a>.

The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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