Jim O'shaughnessy is the host of this week's show. He talks to jonathan b. bennett about his new series of lectures on rene gerard, a pessimistic philosopher who wrote in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The lecture series aims to reflect that you're not walking into an enlightenment world of reason and sunshine and rainbows, but actually a very terrible one thatyou're walking into. i mon actually lead in with how you end it the first lecture, which you will find in our show notes, the link to jon Nathan and david's first lecture on gerard. And you ended it by quoting dante, ally abandon

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