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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

The existential freedom of Blackness

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.610.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Nathalie Etoke joins The Gray Area to talk about existentialism, the Black experience, and the legacy of dehumanization. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area Guest: Nathalie Etoke. Her book is Black Existential Freedom. Enjoyed this episode? Rate The Gray Area ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Be the first to hear new episodes of The Gray Area by following us in your favorite podcast app. Links here: https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area Support The Gray Area by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by: Producer: Jon Ehrens Engineer: Patrick Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The history of philosophy is really just the history of various teams arguing about what's good or true.

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The Epicurean, the Emicist, the stoic, the skeptic, the positivist, the pragmatist, you get the point.

1:30.0

I'm not an official member of any of these teams, but if you asked me to pick mine, I'd go with

1:37.9

the existentialists. For me, Existentialism was the last great philosophical movement and one reason for that is that it emerged at a transformational period in history,

1:55.4

the early to mid 20th century, headlined by two devastating world wars.

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