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Inquiry to Postmodernism #1 – Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish
World Of Literature - January 13, 2023 17:00 - 34 minutesMichel Foucault is one the most influential thinkers of the 20th century who studied extensively the relations of power and knowledge structures. In this episode we will take a look at his classic work Discipline and punish to start our inquiry to postmodernism.
Inquiry to Modern Sociology #3 – Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Social
World Of Literature - December 28, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutesWe take a look at Bruno Latour to end our inquiry to modern sociology. Actor-network theory is best known for its claim that objects should be viewed as having the capacity of being actors. We will dive into this claim and much more. We will take a look at Latours criticism of critical socio...
Inquiry to Modern Sociology #2 – Viviana A. Zelizer: The Social Meaning of Money
World Of Literature - December 05, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutesIn this episode we will take a look at Viviana Zelizers work regarding the social meaning of money. What kind of differentiations do people make between monies and how do people use money to sustain, form, negotiate and redefine social relations. Viviana Zelizer has done a extensive career in...
Inquiry to Modern Sociology #1 – Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society
World Of Literature - November 15, 2022 23:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode we will take a look at Castells most influential work: The rise of the network society. Castells has been very influential in many fields including sociology. In this work he argues that industrial society has changed into a network society changing society in fundamental way...
Inquiry to Modern Sociology #1 – Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society
World Of Literature - November 15, 2022 23:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode we will take a look at Castells most influential work: The rise of the network society. Castells has been very influential in many fields including sociology. In this work he argues that industrial society has changed into a network society changing society in fundamental way...
Inquiry to Knowledge #1 – Peter Berger & Thomas Luckman: Social Construction of Reality
World Of Literature - July 03, 2022 01:00 - 28 minutesIn the first episode in our inquiry to knowledge, we will take a look at a classic work by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman: The social construction of reality. This work gave us the concept of social construct which has been one the most influential theoretical approaches ever since. In this ...
Inquiry to Self #3 – Dan P. McAdams: The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self
World Of Literature - May 14, 2022 22:00 - 28 minutesDan P. McAdams is a psychologist known for his contribution to the field of narrative psychology, a field of psychology which concerns itself with the psychological value of stories in constructing our existence. In this work, McAdams examines how we construct our identity through a personal ...
Inquiry to Self #2 – Erving Goffman: The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life
World Of Literature - February 06, 2022 19:00 - 30 minutesIn the second episode to our inquiry to the concept of self, we will be taking a look at Erving Goffmans classic work, The presentation of self in everyday life. We will examine how Goffman saw that people express and manage their presentations of their self in social interactions, which he exam...
Inquiry to Self #1 – George Herbert Mead: Mind, Self & Society
World Of Literature - January 06, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutesGeorge Herbert Mead was a social psychologists, who's seen as one of the founders of an approach called symbolic interactionism. Mead didn't (unfortunately) publish any books during he's lifetime. However, he's ideas are represented in Mind, Self & Society, which is constructed through various s...
Inquiry to self #1 – George Herbert Mead: Mind, Self & Society
World Of Literature - January 06, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutesGeorge Herbert Mead was a social psychologists, who's seen as one of the founders of an approach called symbolic interactionism. Mead didn't (unfortunately) publish any books during he's own lifetime. However, he's ideas are represented in Mind, Self & Society, which is constructed through vario...
Émile Durkheim: On Suicide
World Of Literature - December 22, 2021 23:00 - 35 minutesÉmile Durkheim was a french sociologist who's works have left a tremendous mark on how we interpret, approach and analyze society. In this episode, we will take a look at his work, On Suicide, one of the greatest works of sociology. In this episode we will stumble on concepts such as social...
Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit Of Capitalism
World Of Literature - November 14, 2021 23:00 - 21 minutesMax Weber belongs to the names that create the foundation of sociology. In this classic work, Weber examines the relation between reformation and the creation of the spirit of capitalism. He sets out an idealistic perspective to examine historical progression of society and broadens the sociolog...
Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation
World Of Literature - October 06, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutesArthur Schopenhauer belongs to the list of great thinkers that roamed the world in the 19th century. Schopenhauer can be described as the main figure of philosophical pessimism. Why? Well, existence seems to be a glass half-empty, if the glass ever had anything. In this work, Arthur Schopenhau...
Charles Wright Mills: Sociological Imagination
World Of Literature - September 08, 2021 14:00 - 19 minutesC. Wright Mills is one of the best known sociologists of the 20th century. Hes works analyzed power and different structures of society. However, hes idea of sociological imagination has become a core idea of sociology and could be described as sociology 101. In this episode we will examine what...
Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
World Of Literature - August 20, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutesCivilization and Its Discontents is one of the best known works of Freuds. Its also one of his most comprehensive works as much of his theories were introduced and created before it. Thus it seems that in this work, Freud isnt so much discovering anything new, instead his using his ideas and wor...
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
World Of Literature - July 18, 2021 22:00 - 54 minutesRapid development of technology, Russian revolution, World War I, rapid development of psychology and medicine. A lot happened in the early parts of the 20th century, a lot that raised eyebrows towards the future. What does it hold inside for humankind? There were optimistic hope and then there ...
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
World Of Literature - June 23, 2021 22:00 - 15 minutes"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." This sentence alone has had a deep influence on feminist theory. Who wrote it? Simone de Beauvoir, a french existentialist, a philosopher, the writer of Second Sex, the classic work of feminism. In this classic, Beauvoir seeks to find the answ...
B.F. Skinner: About Behaviorism
World Of Literature - June 04, 2021 22:00 - 17 minutesWhy do we do what we do? A question asked by many and to which have been responded in different ways. Maybe we are driven by the pleasure principle, by our feelings, by our conscience, or as Skinner suspected, by reinforcements. B. F. Skinner was an american psychologist, a pioneer of the beh...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality
World Of Literature - May 28, 2021 22:00 - 17 minutesJean-Jacques Rousseau, a genevan philosopher, was a great influence on the movement known as Enlightenment. Through his political, educational and economic ideas, he gained a lot of admiration, and nowadays hes works are recognized as essential parts of the western history of philosophy. Be...
Jean Piaget: The Childs Conception of the World
World Of Literature - May 18, 2021 22:00 - 21 minutesThink of psychology and its foundation. What comes to mind? Probably names such as Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Vygotsky, but this list is by no means valid without the name of Jean Piaget. The swiss psychologist, the creator of the theory of cognitive development, object permanence and schemas, is argu...
John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
World Of Literature - April 13, 2021 22:00 - 25 minutesWhat is wrong and what is right? The question philosophers have pondered throughout time has created various amount of ethical theories that argue to hold the answer to that question. One of those theories is Utilitarianism, the greatest happiness principle, which claims that actions are right a...
George Orwell: 1984
World Of Literature - March 28, 2021 21:00 - 43 minutesGeorge Orwell, one the most influential thinkers and writers of the 20th century is best known for his work 1984 along with Animal Farm. 1984 describes the dystopian world of Oceania where people have been deprived from all liberty by Big Brother, the leader of Oceania. There is no such thing as...
Mohsin Hamid: Exit West
World Of Literature - March 21, 2021 22:00 - 30 minutesExit West, published in 2017, is the fourth novel of British Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. The critically acclaimed work of Hamid follows two young lovers who escape their home which develops to be a battleground between the rebels and the government. As they migrate throughout the world they f...
Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
World Of Literature - March 14, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutesImmanuel Kant was a prussian philosopher who's regarded as one the central figures of Englightenment. His output on ethics, metaphysics and epistemology have cemented hes place as one of the greats and for many he truly is the greatest to ever live. His magnum opus, Critique of Pure Reason, take...
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
World Of Literature - March 07, 2021 23:00 - 28 minutesOn liberty by John Stuart Mill is a classic philosophical work of libertarianism and a demand for freedom of thought, conscience, speech, ideas, tastes and pursuits. John Stuart Mill examines and argues why the freedom of the individual is the best recipe for making a functioning and prospering ...
Anonymous: Go ask Alice
World Of Literature - February 22, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutesGo ask Alice, the diary of anonymous writer published in 1971, has developed to be a classic in the field of young adult literature. Theres over 5 million copies sold of it worldwide and its anti-drug message and cautionary tale is as relevant as it has ever been. The diary reveals the story of ...
Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus spoke Zarathustra
World Of Literature - February 07, 2021 22:00 - 20 minutesThus spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche is a book for all and book for none. Although marketing flop when published in 1883, it has developed to be one of the most essential works of philosophy. Its known for, well, being bit weird but insightful. The book is not only a philosophical work,...
Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus spoke Zarathustra
World Of Literature - February 07, 2021 22:00 - 20 minutesThus spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche is a book for all and book for none. Although marketing flop when published in 1883, it has developed to be one of the most essential works of philosophy. Its known for, well, being bit weird but insightful. The book is not only a philosophical work,...
Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
World Of Literature - February 03, 2021 18:00 - 28 minutesThink however you want about Sigmund Freud, theres no denial about the importance of he's input on the field of psychology. The interpretation of dreams was published in 1899 and although it didn't gain much attention at first, it eventually took off and is now probably the best known work of ps...
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto
World Of Literature - January 06, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutesToday we will be taking a look at one the most controversial piece of works ever produced in the history of literature: Communist manifesto. Communist manifesto is a work that still divides opinions among people. Others argue it to be the root of all evil, never to be experimented again after w...
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