On this episode, I communicate with the thinker, podcaster, and substacker extraordinaire, Justin E.H. Smith about Cormac McCarthy’s fourth novel, Suttree. We have been each struck by how completely different this novel is from McCarthy’s later, extra well-known works—each in its type and in its literary ambitions. We resist the widespread temptation to learn McCarthy as a nihilist; we puzzle over the start and the tip of the novel, and the way they relate to at least one one other; and fairly usually we simply had a good time attempting to determine what McCarthy was as much as on this stunning and considerably mystifying novel about one man’s journey into the depths of the seedy underbelly of Knoxville, Tennessee.
I hope you take pleasure in our dialog!
Justin E.H. Smith is professor of philosophy within the Division of Historical past and Philosophy of Science on the College of Paris. In 2019-20, I used to be the John and Constance Birkelund Fellow on the Cullman Middle for Students and Writers of the New York Public Library. He has written many books, together with Irrationality: The Darkish Aspect of Purpose and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. He additionally authors a substack, which you’ll subscribe to here. You possibly can comply with Justin on Twitter @jehsmith
Jennifer Frey is an affiliate Professor of Philosophy and Peter and Bonnie McCausland School Fellow on the College of South Carolina. She can be a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology on the Catholic College of America and the Phrase on Hearth Institute. Previous to becoming a member of the philosophy school at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities on the College of Chicago, the place she was a member of the Society of Fellows within the Liberal Arts and an affiliated school within the philosophy division. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy on the College of Pittsburgh, and her B.A. in Philosophy and Medieval Research (with a Classics minor) at Indiana College, in Bloomington, Indiana. She has revealed extensively on motion, advantage, sensible motive, and meta-ethics, and has lately co-edited an interdisciplinary quantity, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology. Her writing has additionally been featured in Breaking Floor, First Issues, Fare Ahead, Picture, Legislation and Liberty, The Level, and USA Right now. She lives in Columbia, SC, along with her husband, six kids, and chickens. You possibly can comply with her on Twitter @jennfrey.
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Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast during which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics focus on a few of their favourite works of literature, and the way these works have formed their very own concepts about love, happiness, and that means in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is affiliate professor of philosophy on the College of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology on the Catholic College of America and produced by Catholics for Rent.
Audio Edited & Music Produced by Anthony Monson
