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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
The Macabre Thing
My mother had a very macabre sort of thing. And you wonder if it's like genetic nature or nurture. She gave me Edgar Allan Pacoon. So I suppose I got a lot of it from her too. But why did you then say to yourself, this is philosophically interesting? Because most philosophers don't study monsters. It's like Descartes, Kant, Hegel. And I'm like, well, monsters represent human vulnerability. What are people afraid of will tell you a lot about how the mind works.
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