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18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)
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John travelled to Odense, Denmark for a conference called “Love Etc.” (RTB is for it…) and fell into this conversation about empathy, identification and “uncritical reading” with the novelist Namwali Serpell and literary theorist Rita Felski. Hannah Arendt’s distrust of too much feeling, not enough thinking loomed large; so did Zadie Smith’s recent article in defense of empathy. The room was unexpectedly resonant–but so were Serpell and Felski’s insights.
Mentioned in the episode:
Michael Warner, “Uncritical Reading“
Zadie Smith, “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction“
Namwali Serpell, “The Banality of Empathy“
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
George Eliot, “Middlemarch”
Hannah Arendt, “Truth and Politics“
Cartherine Gallagher, “The Rise of Fictionality“
Noel Carroll, Beyond Aesthetics
Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho
John Bender and Michael Marrinan, Culture of the Diagram
Sophocles, The Women of Trachis
Bernard Williams, “The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics“
Hans Christian Anderson’s charming, tiny house:
Listen to the episode here:
Read the transcript here:
Upcoming: in early December, string theorist Albion Lawrence discusses the powers (and pitfalls) of scientific collaboration with EF and JP. They try to decide if they should be jealous of the sorts of teamwork and back-and-forth that nowadays profoundly shape all branches of science. Maybe a case can be made for an elective affinity between solitary cogitation and disciplines like anthropology and literary history. Or maybe JP and EF just need their alone time, curled up in the corner with a favorite blanket….
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Manage episode 246406678 series 2538127
John travelled to Odense, Denmark for a conference called “Love Etc.” (RTB is for it…) and fell into this conversation about empathy, identification and “uncritical reading” with the novelist Namwali Serpell and literary theorist Rita Felski. Hannah Arendt’s distrust of too much feeling, not enough thinking loomed large; so did Zadie Smith’s recent article in defense of empathy. The room was unexpectedly resonant–but so were Serpell and Felski’s insights.
Mentioned in the episode:
Michael Warner, “Uncritical Reading“
Zadie Smith, “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction“
Namwali Serpell, “The Banality of Empathy“
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
George Eliot, “Middlemarch”
Hannah Arendt, “Truth and Politics“
Cartherine Gallagher, “The Rise of Fictionality“
Noel Carroll, Beyond Aesthetics
Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho
John Bender and Michael Marrinan, Culture of the Diagram
Sophocles, The Women of Trachis
Bernard Williams, “The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics“
Hans Christian Anderson’s charming, tiny house:
Listen to the episode here:
Read the transcript here:
Upcoming: in early December, string theorist Albion Lawrence discusses the powers (and pitfalls) of scientific collaboration with EF and JP. They try to decide if they should be jealous of the sorts of teamwork and back-and-forth that nowadays profoundly shape all branches of science. Maybe a case can be made for an elective affinity between solitary cogitation and disciplines like anthropology and literary history. Or maybe JP and EF just need their alone time, curled up in the corner with a favorite blanket….
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