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Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Death of Tragedy Is a Review of Some Kind

I want to talk about the whole question of scientism. The difference between those two things isn't in the theory itself. What I'm thinking about in particular is when we start talking about metaphors, which could be such an important part for literature. We're talking about some surface level description, which stands in for something else and begs to be interpreted.

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