Phi Fic
49 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDicussions of literature from a philosophical perspective.
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Stendhal’s Red and Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) - Phi Fic Ep. 46
February 13, 2023 03:58 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBOne of Nietzsche’s favorite novels, Le Rouge et le Noir contains some of the most profound psychological analysis in all of fiction. The novel tells the story about a young man from a modest background who seeks a glorious career, but ends up in enormous trouble as a result of his love affairs. The novel is divided into halves, with the first half being about a job where he ended up having affair with his boss’s wife, and the second half being about another job where he has a passionate ro...
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
September 26, 2022 02:51 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBJoin Nina, Daniel, Fabrice, and Rob us as we discuss Edith Wharton's 1913 satire of American ambition, The Custom of the Country.
The Poetry Episode (Dickinson, Baudelaire, Bishop, Byron)
July 17, 2022 00:05 - 56 minutes - 42.3 MBEach of the four contributors picked a different poem to read and discuss for this episode. The poems we picked are listed below. Also below are links to the poems and the starting point for each segment. Emily Dickinson, "The Brain is Wider Than the Sky" - 2:35 https://drupal.yalebooks.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/TOC/edelman_wider.pdf Charles Baudelaire, "The Albatross" - 13:05 https://fleursdumal.org/poem/200 Elizabeth Bishop, "The Art of Losing" - 29:45 https://www.poetr...
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May 27, 2022 19:51 - 1 minute - 1.09 MBWe’re looking for people to come join the show as regular contributors to the Phi Fic podcast. The idea of the show is to discuss literature from a philosophical perspective. I will be handling all the back-end work and costs associated with running the show, so you can focus on the readings and contributing to our discussion. We’re hosted on the website for the Partially Examined life, and we usually get over a thousand listeners per episode, so this is a great opportunity to get your vo...
PHI FIC #43 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
March 10, 2022 11:36 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBAn unwritten novel by Virginia Woolf
January 04, 2022 13:55 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBPhi Fic #41 Paradise Lost by John Milton
October 12, 2021 16:52 - 1 hour - 107 MBPhi Fic #40 The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
June 02, 2021 18:28 - 1 hour - 107 MBPoint Omega by Don DeLillo
March 30, 2021 19:58 - 1 hour - 114 MBPhi fin #39 Point Omega by Don DeLillo
March 30, 2021 19:58 - 1 hour - 114 MBPhi Fic #38 Howard's End by EM Forster
January 27, 2021 22:44 - 1 hour - 103 MBPhi Fic #37 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
October 26, 2020 17:45 - 1 hour - 115 MBPhi Fic #36 Canterbury Tales-- Part Two
September 01, 2020 16:46 - 1 hour - 141 MBRepost Phi Fic #35 12 Stories by James Baldwin
July 03, 2020 19:09 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBPhi Fic #34 The Canterbury Tales Part 1
June 19, 2020 18:41 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBRepost: The Machine Stops by EM Forster
April 11, 2020 21:35 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBPhi FIc #32 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
February 20, 2020 21:31 - 1 hour - 117 MBPhi Fic #31 Sula by Toni Morrison
December 17, 2019 22:24 - 2 hours - 96.3 MBPhi Fic #30 (Part 2 of 2) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
October 03, 2019 04:44 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBPhi Fic #29 (Part 1 of 2) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
August 07, 2019 05:02 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBPhi Fic #28 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
June 04, 2019 07:17 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBPhi Fic #27 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
April 11, 2019 04:56 - 2 hours - 120 MBPhi Fic #26 The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
January 24, 2019 00:59 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBCezary Baraniecki, Laura Davis-Chanin, Nathaniel Hanks, Daniel Johnson, and Jennifer Tejada discuss the novel.
Phi Fic #25 At The Mountains Of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
November 27, 2018 09:22 - 2 hours - 108 MBLaura Davis-Chanin, Nathaniel Hanks, Daniel Johnson, Mark Linsenmayer, and Jennifer Tejada discuss the novel. Support through Patreon or directly contact us at [email protected]
Phi Fic #24 Ulysses by James Joyce
November 05, 2018 05:00 - 43 minutes - 68.6 MBPhi Fic #23 To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
August 21, 2018 11:13 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBPhi Fic #22 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
June 03, 2018 08:11 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBPhi Fic #21 Foe by J. M. Coetzee
March 19, 2018 03:14 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBPhi Fic #20 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
February 05, 2018 11:03 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBPhi Fic #19 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
November 17, 2017 13:35 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBPhi Fic #18 The Trouble With Being Born by E.M. Cioran
October 28, 2017 05:03 - 1 hour - 83 MBPhi Fic #17 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
October 01, 2017 03:15 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBPhi Fic #16 Stories by Clarice Lispector
August 27, 2017 11:20 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBPhi Fic #15 The State of the Art by Iain M Banks
July 19, 2017 12:52 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBPhi Fic #14 The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
July 02, 2017 11:37 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBPhi Fic #13 The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
May 31, 2017 10:26 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBPhi Fic #12 Stories by James Baldwin
April 21, 2017 17:58 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBPhi Fic #11 The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
March 20, 2017 10:21 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBPhi Fic #10 The Fall by Albert Camus
February 27, 2017 14:03 - 1 hour - 101 MBPhi Fic #9 The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
January 23, 2017 13:05 - 1 hour - 67 MBPhi Fic #8 Erewhon by Samuel Butler
December 01, 2016 05:17 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBPhi Fic #7 The Call of Cthulu by H. P. Lovecraft
October 31, 2016 16:23 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBPhi Fic #6 The Beast In The Jungle by Henry James
September 30, 2016 01:55 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBPhi Fic #5 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
August 31, 2016 20:54 - 1 hour - 107 MBPhi Fic #4 Grendel by John Gardner
August 01, 2016 12:39 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBPhi Fic #3 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
July 06, 2016 09:51 - 1 hour - 156 MBWe talk about the novel by Mary Shelly, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus". Nathan Hanks hosts fellow readers Cezary Baraniecki, Daniel St. Pierre, Laura Davis, Mary Claire, and special guest, Wes Alwan from the Partially Examined Life. Learn from me... how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. - Victor Frankenstein Thanks to Christoph...