Part 8 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, ⁠⁠Neither/Nor⁠⁠. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and I discuss:

• Julian Jaynes
• The Aphoristic style of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Jaynes, and others
• The Axial Age and whether it changed human cognition ad experience
• Obviousnesses and ideology, from Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1975)
• A review of Kuhn's Last Writings in the LRB.

Previous episodes:

• Part 7 of this series: Jaynes, Tolstoy, Zhuangzi
• Part 6 of this series: ⁠Mental Proliferation⁠
• Part 5 of this series: ⁠⁠Crises and Revolutions⁠⁠
• Part 4 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠Language and Experience⁠⁠⁠
• Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠⁠⁠

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