Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast

About Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast

I would like this podcast to start a conversation with women of all ages, convictions and styles of life – wherever situated on the gamut of experience. In principle, there is no bar to men joining in, since how one defines women has a lot to do with what it means to be a man. But it is women I invite to pull up a chair at this virtual café table and put their questions and views into the conversation. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of A Good Look at Evil, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, now appearing in an expanded second edition and as audiobooks. Dr. Rosenthal writes a weekly column for “Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column,” (www.dearabbie-nonadvice.com) where she explores the situation of women. She thinks women’s lives are highly interesting. She’s the editor of The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes’s Secret; Spinoza’s Way by her father, Henry M. Rosenthal. She’s written numerous articles that can be accessed at Academia.edu .

Publisher

Abigail L. Rosenthal

Category

society & culture · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Oct 2021

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

282 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   When Ideology Replaces Reality | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 4.2

   What happens when an ideology offers certainty at the cost of reality? In Part 4.2 of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin continue their discussion of Confessions of a Young Philosopher and the danger of replacing lived experience with a ready-made system of belief. Abigail returns to her relationship in Paris, where even love could become formulaic when experience was filtered through ideology. She and Jerry also revisit Suzanne, whose confidenc...

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   1 Oct 2026

   Antisemitism, Cain and Abel, and the Roots of Hatred | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 4.1

   Why does antisemitism keep returning? In this episode of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin begin Part Four, the Aftermath and final section of Confessions of a Young Philosopher, with Abigail’s idea of “passionate history.” The conversation begins with Abigail seeing her former Paris lover years later and finding that he had developed strong antisemitic views. From there, Abbie and Jerry explore the difference between objective history and the ...

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   24 Sept 2026

   A Mother’s Wisdom: Finding Sanity After Brainwashing | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 3.4

   The strange world Abigail entered under Suzanne’s influence has reached its breaking point. Letters are being sent in Abigail’s name, passports and ordinary conventions have lost their authority, and the Gnostic system that once promised access to a higher truth is carrying her farther from the ground beneath her feet. In this concluding episode of Part Three of Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, Abigail Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin follow the story through its most dramatic turn: Abb...

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Engagement

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