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Missed you so much. Was checking podcast on a daily basis :)

I found you on Spotify and I listen to you almost every morning, trying to catch up on all your content. Thank you so much for the information you share Stephen!

Found this on spotify! This guy is amazing. I love how he picks the topics and how he encapsulates all the shit he wants to show us into these episodes.

Greatest Philosophy Podcast ..

Thanks for your videos dude, I'm only at episode 30ish but I know I'm gonna listen to them all, your work is awesome

Hey Steven, Are you OK? Waiting for pt. 2. Hope all is well.

Stephen West is a great modern day philosopher. You gotta be able to teach your philosophy.

I am actually starting to study this in school really soon, this is really helpful and interesting at the same time

Hey Stephen! Suggested your podcast to a friend of mine. Helped him a lot in understanding western philosophy and also helped him score better in his extrance test. Thank you so much. ❤️❤️

I missed this videos so much! Your work is amazing, keep it going, Greetings from Chile

I started your channel on April 28th 2021. Today, May 19th 2021, I have completed every episode in chronological order. As Episode 152 ended and I some old episode begin it occurred to me I'm out of new content. PLEASE KEEP IT UP! Amazing stuff (and I use the word in the literal sense) ;).

That was great, more Benjamin!

Hi it's me again, please do more videos, I got from episode 30ish to 70ish now and I fear I will come short on episodes yet, we need more mr West :D just kidding, thanks for your knowledge I'm so glad youtube and Steven exists to learn about philosophy in traffic jams in a chronological manner. IDK why so few people listen to this show, it's worth so much more, I will, for sure, redirect any curious people to that show, it's amazing 👍

Perfection once again!!!

Awesome video

Hi I’ve been listing for a while now but if I can ask what happened it’s been like 3 months sense you dropped something new, hope ur doing good tho!

Thanks. Funky stuff. Keeps me going.

Thank you

This episode was fantastic. It really explains to me what has happened to Rock Music over the years. It is not the level of creativity & originality it was in the 60's, 70's & even 80's. It's like what happened to the novel that Benjamin goes into. People don't actually stop and listen to music like they once did. We would once put on an LP and actually sit and listen to the music only. Music is now more of just background noise.

Love you Stephen, just what I needed. Ps I’m also a fan of the moon!

Thank you for this awesome podcast. 👍👍🙌

thank you so much.. I just read a short history of photography and didn't get it. your analysis has allowed me to see the 'Aura' of the original work. sometimes you just need to be shown how to look at an original text. thanks again.

Thankyou - very original angle.

would love to meet steven west. seems like a great and thoughtful guy.

First of all, many thanks for the great content. I'm a philosophy instructor and a long time fan. Secondly, would you consider an episode about Roberto Esposito (eg "Immunitas), as he seems to be relevant to the post-Covid political scenery?

For anyone wondering, there are new episodes on the Spotify podcast.

Thank you!

Thank you for your so very insightful take on this brilliant vanguard. I'm coincidentally just past the notes (A-Z) of Benjamins Arcade Project (& about to read the most final draft (a- ) of his actual composition. I humbly ask if you could cover the "WISH" (DIALECTICAL) IMAGE which seems omnipresent in that (never completed) opus, Arcades Project

Can you do a full episode on Phenomenology? :)

The Irony of the video is the fact that the RU-vid video of explanation of a work is also a mass mechanistic reproduction of the real work which also makes it a demystified version of the real work and that comes with a lost of the real work’s aura…. No disrespect though, its a good video ✌🏿

i would love to see a brzozowski epizode on his philosophy of a deed

How about the technology that allows more people to even see great works of art?? (I must be missing something here ....)

I loved this podcast, but one little point I'd like to make. I've lived in Germany for 50 years and I speak fluent German. I realize that you think the letter "J" is pronounced like an "H" (like Spanish). No, German is a different language. Perhaps you know the German word for yes: "YA", that is how you pronounce Benjamin. Ben-ya-min. Real easy! :-) I live 20 minutes from Frankfort so if you're ever over here, we can have a beer and a bratwurst. Ya? Keep up the great work!

Thank u for this. I somehow have a hard time understanding Walter Benjamin.

We've been graced by the gods today fellas , check Spotify for the new episode

Great episode. I would take issue with Benjamin's statements about art. I would say that of course artists create art with the audience in mind. Did Michelangelo sculpt David or Steinbeck write without considering who was consuming it? Take your podcast for example, do you not think about what your audience is interested in listening to before you put in all the work of producing one episode. Not a criticism of the episode, just trying to start a conversation.

Can someone explain the last point? "what happens when the masses can come face to face with themselves."

Do the philosophy of Emil Cioran next?

He was German so his surname should be pronounced Benyameen, not Benhameen. I am guessing that as an american you are being influenced by your knowledge of spanish which is the language most US english speakers learn as their second language in school.

I wonder what Benjamin would think of art forms that were born from photography and the like, such as photographic art, cinema and music albums...? All of the above definitely contain stunning (at least immanent-feeling) art very far from the Marvel-esque mass culture.

Sounds like Heidegger and Benjamin were pals in his last days

Hi , anyone knows how to find the transcript for this show ? much appreciated !

Which Benjamin essay is he discussing here (around 09:30, about the origin of language)?

Why there is no subtitle ?

is there any group somewhere where I can talk with people about these subjects? I'm currently studying philosophy in university and struggling, but I?d like to learn really bad

Where are you??

Please we need stoicism

Will you please do one on Ayn Rand and objectivism. Thanks for the awesome content!

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JA NOT HA, my god

any stoicism or taoism coming?

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