Meditations with Zohar

Tara Isabella Burton: Self-Making from Albrecht Dürer to Kim Kardashian S2 E13

Jul 28, 2023

01:13:39

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Role of Human Creativity in Modernity

4min

The Slippage From the Self as Divinely Inspired to the Self as God

4min

The Nietzschean Story of the Retraction of God

4min

The Freudian Parental Story of the Hunger for God

3min

The Story of Self-Making

2min

The Power of Hard Work and Discipline

5min

The Reality Distortion Force Field

4min

The Role of Power Politics in the Realm of the Good Life

3min

10.

The Revisionist History of the Bastard

2min

11.

The Negative Externality of the Renaissance Model

4min

12.

The American Entrepreneur or the European Dandy?

2min

13.

The Dandy and the Entrepreneur

4min

14.

The Role of the Humanities in Self-Invention

2min

15.

The Social Media Phenomenon

2min

16.

The Commonness of Self-Making

4min

17.

The Power of Self-Invention

2min

18.

The Dysphoria of Elon Musk

4min

19.

The Importance of Authenticity in Non-Fiction Books

3min

20.

The Existential Hope of the Self

2min

21.

The Modern Age Is One That Has Retreated From Judgment

2min

22.

The Differentization of the Self in Modern Life

2min

23.

How to Find Your Purpose in Life

4min

24.

The Importance of Commitment

3min

This week, Zohar is joined by return guest Tara Isabella Burton to discuss her most recent book, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. They discuss renaissance humanism, the theological origins of postmodernity, irony, commitment, transhumanism, Oscar Wilde, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Edison, and Grimes.