Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. When Laurie Stern set out to adopt a baby from Guatemala in 1999, she thought the process would be pretty straightforward. Lots of people were doing it. But the adoption was held up just as she went to Guatemala to g ...
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The Tyranny of Narrativity (Part 1) - Is Life Just One Big Self-Authored Story?
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内容由Tony Bologna提供。所有播客内容(包括剧集、图形和播客描述)均由 Tony Bologna 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品,您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
In this first episode of a two part series, I look at the idea of how we make sense of our lives to ourselves. Our life is a big jumble of events. How do I think about my life and understand these events so that they cohere into something that constitutes a life, a self, an identity. By far, the most popular notion of doing this is to structure these events as a story. Academia has seized on this notion of making sense of our lives through narrativity so much so that it has become one of the few (near) consensus ideas in the humanities and social sciences. Against this wave of acceptance of narrativity stands one philosopher, Galen Strawson. I look at the work of Strawson and attempt to piece out the idea that, if we don't live our life according to a story, then how do we live it? Plus, the usual trivia and rambling.
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Manage episode 275853084 series 2778461
内容由Tony Bologna提供。所有播客内容(包括剧集、图形和播客描述)均由 Tony Bologna 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品,您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
In this first episode of a two part series, I look at the idea of how we make sense of our lives to ourselves. Our life is a big jumble of events. How do I think about my life and understand these events so that they cohere into something that constitutes a life, a self, an identity. By far, the most popular notion of doing this is to structure these events as a story. Academia has seized on this notion of making sense of our lives through narrativity so much so that it has become one of the few (near) consensus ideas in the humanities and social sciences. Against this wave of acceptance of narrativity stands one philosopher, Galen Strawson. I look at the work of Strawson and attempt to piece out the idea that, if we don't live our life according to a story, then how do we live it? Plus, the usual trivia and rambling.
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