I am a philosopher with a doctorate and a writer living in Philadelphia. I want to dig deep in this podcast, going beyond the superficial level of daily events. Along with Thoreau, I want to search for the principle behind the myriad instances and applications. All news is gossip, ideas are what drive history.
All content for CultureCast is the property of Daniel Dal Monte and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
I am a philosopher with a doctorate and a writer living in Philadelphia. I want to dig deep in this podcast, going beyond the superficial level of daily events. Along with Thoreau, I want to search for the principle behind the myriad instances and applications. All news is gossip, ideas are what drive history.
In this episode, I give a brief rundown of the surrealist movement in the art and literature. The surreal is a merger of dream and reality, such that dreams can provide a source of truth and there is no longer a distinction between dreams and reality. The surrealists used Freud to justify their exploration of the unconscious and they challenged the facile order of the conscious mind characteristic of Enlightenment Reason. Automatic writing let ideas flow with moral or aesthetic concern.
CultureCast
I am a philosopher with a doctorate and a writer living in Philadelphia. I want to dig deep in this podcast, going beyond the superficial level of daily events. Along with Thoreau, I want to search for the principle behind the myriad instances and applications. All news is gossip, ideas are what drive history.
