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SMFMS Bookends 6 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Save Me From My Shelf - June 19, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe sixth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Midsummer Nig...
Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame
Plato's Cave - June 14, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourIn the final discussion of the series, we dive into Franklin's work on the value of angry blame: can anger best--really, only--express certain features of am adequate response to wrongdoing? For more on our sponsor, please visit http://www.newlane.edu/ Twitter: @JordanCMyers Personal Website: ht...
Episode 56 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Save Me From My Shelf - June 12, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-sixth episode, we celebrate midsummer with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1605). We make a lot of (obvious) jokes about asses, Amazon, and fairy kink (despite not reading THE fairy kink book)....
Ep. 72 - Amia Srinivasan: The Aptness of Anger
Plato's Cave - June 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hourWe dive into Srinivasan's amazing (but at the end of the day, I think not fully right) paper, "The Aptness of Anger." For more on our sponsor, please visit http://www.newlane.edu/ Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: Twitter: @JordanCMyers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email:...
SMFMS Bookends 5 - The Grapes of Wrath
Save Me From My Shelf - May 22, 2024 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe fifth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from The Grapes of Wrat...
Episode 55 - The Grapes of Wrath
Save Me From My Shelf - May 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-fifth episode, we recap John Steinbeck's 1939 Dust Bowl adventure, Biblical allegory, and socialist manifesto, The Grapes of Wrath. It's all pigs, sex, and pooping (a shocking amount of pooping). We dis...
SMFMS Bookends 4: The Time Machine
Save Me From My Shelf - April 24, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe forth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from The Time Machine e...
Episode 54 - The Time Machine
Save Me From My Shelf - April 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our last episode, we went into the past. Now, in our fifty-fourth episode, we go way, way into the future with H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895). We workshop Save Me From My Shelf: On Ice!, turn into feral, bi...
SMFMS Bookends 3: Ivanhoe
Save Me From My Shelf - March 20, 2024 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe third episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from the Ivanhoe episod...
Ep. 71 - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness (Part 2)
Plato's Cave - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourPart two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness. For more on our sponsor, please visit http://www.newlane.edu/ Twitter: @JordanCMyers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email: [email protected] Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?...
Episode 53 - Ivanhoe
Save Me From My Shelf - March 13, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-third episode, we cover the first proper Historical Novel™, Sir Walter Scott's extremely boring, Ren Faire-style medieval romp, Ivanhoe (1819). In this episode, Abby gets ghosted by her best friend and ...
Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1)
Plato's Cave - March 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hourIn the second episode of our series on anger, we dive into the first chapters of Martha Nussbaum's recent book, Anger and Forgiveness. The first two chapters focus on the myth of payback's value. For more on our sponsor, please visit http://www.newlane.edu/ Twitter: @JordanCMyers Personal Websi...
Ep. 69 - Anger: Seneca & Stoicism
Plato's Cave - February 23, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourEpisode 1 of a new series on the philosophy of emotion--specifically, anger. We discuss some introductory questions and Seneca's 'On Anger.' For more on our sponsor, please visit http://www.newlane.edu/ Twitter: @JordanCMyers Personal Website: https://jordanmyers.org/ Email: platoscavepodcast@gma...
SMFMS Bookends 2: Rebecca
Save Me From My Shelf - February 21, 2024 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe second episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from the Rebecca episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Episode 52 - Rebecca
Save Me From My Shelf - February 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-second episode, Valentine's Day Special, AND Ash Wednesday spectacular, we look at Daphne Du Maurier's Cornish Gothic romance-tragedy-thriller, which is also a courtroom drama, police procedural, ghost ...
SMFMS Bookends 1: The Scarlet Letter
Save Me From My Shelf - January 24, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAbby and Daniel launch their first episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from the Scarlet Letter episode...
Episode 51 - The Scarlet Letter
Save Me From My Shelf - January 17, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our Season 5 opener and fifty-first episode, we return to Puritanical, repressed New England with Nathaniel Hawthorne's experimental, philosophical musing about adultery, guilt, religion, and haute couture, The S...
End-Of-Year-Special 2023
Save Me From My Shelf - December 31, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn Save Me From My Shelf's end-of-year wrap up for 2023, Abby and Daniel read listener letters, respond to audience questions, correct any Season 4 mistakes, and have a general retrospective on the past year on the podcast. Abby also reveals her tradition of Dark Christmas, Daniel is an unprepare...
Episode 50 - Paradise Lost
Save Me From My Shelf - December 20, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fiftieth episode and (anti-)Christmas special, we go into John Milton's Puritanical vision of the Fall of Man, Paradise Lost (1667) ... where Milton may just be of Satan's party. It's a world where God is bot...
Episode 49 - Ethan Frome
Save Me From My Shelf - December 06, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our forty-ninth episode, we cover Edith Wharton's wintry New England romantic tragedy, Ethan Frome (1911). Abby goes to therapy live on the show, while Daniel obsesses over pickles and learns all about New Englan...
Episode 48 - Macbeth
Save Me From My Shelf - November 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our forty-eighth episode, we tell the tale of ambition, revenge, murder, Irn-Bru, bad accents, respeck, balls, breastmilk, and other people's awesome tweets in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' (1606). Cover art ©...
Episode 47b - Poe Anthology, Part Two
Save Me From My Shelf - November 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the second part of our forty-seventh episode, we continue our recap of the short works of Edgar Allan Poe (1830s-40s): 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Cask of Amontillado', 'The Black Cat', and 'The Raven'. Cov...
Episode 47a - Poe Anthology, Part One
Save Me From My Shelf - October 25, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our forty-seven and big Halloween episode, we host our first anthology: the short works of Edgar Allan Poe (1830s-40s). In the first half of this anthology, we cover 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Fall of the House ...
Episode 46 - The Stepford Wives
Save Me From My Shelf - October 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our forty-sixth episode--Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives (1972)--we move to the suburbs, eat a lot of Lobster Newburg, and watch nothing but Air Bud. Daniel also reveals his secret feminist tattoo, Abby puts out a...
Episode 45 - The Trial
Save Me From My Shelf - September 27, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our forty-fifth episode, we delve into a world of cartoon references, James Bond-level panty dropping, questions for the BDSM community, and beards. Too many beards. It's Franz Kafka's 1925 paranoid, sadomasochis...
Bonus Content - Q&A with Abby and Daniel
Save Me From My Shelf - September 13, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDaniel and Abby answer listener questions about how they make the podcast, the best literary decades, overrated authors, giant ducks, and when to throw a drink in your mother-in-law's face (always). Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode themes: Mozart's 'Overture' to Don Giovanni. Hosted on Acas...
Ep. 68 - Sukaina Hirji: Outrage and the Bound of Empathy
Plato's Cave - September 12, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutesI speak with Sukaina Hirji about her (very) recent paper discussing a type of anger referred to as outrage: what it is, how it differs from other emotions, & how it functions in our emotional lives. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.sukaina-hirji.com/ https://philpapers.or...
Ep. 67 - Two Levels of Pluralism (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
Plato's Cave - August 31, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourIn the final episode of the series, we discuss Wolf's article "Two Levels of Pluralism" which investigates whether pluralism reduces into relativism. Spoiler--it doesn't! Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2381554 Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David P...
Episode 44 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Save Me From My Shelf - August 30, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our forty-fourth episode, we look at Mark Twain's satire on systematic racism and childhood trauma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). It's full of bad southern accents, men painted weird colours, identit...
Ep. 66 - Moral Luck (Celebrating Susan Wolf [& Bernard Williams])
Plato's Cave - August 24, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourIn this episode, we discuss the seminal paper "Moral Luck" by Bernard Williams and a new replies to the problem of moral luck. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://bibliotecamathom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/williams-moralluck.pdf Intro beat: "Wild for the Night" by David Pizzar...
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