PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
Plasticpills
4.8from 639 ratings
- 266
- Episodes
- 87
- Transcribed
- 639
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
- Publisher
- Plasticpills
- Category
- arts · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 4 Mar 2020
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
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87 of 266 episodes have a transcript.
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René Girard on Blood Sacrifice // 270
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But this one, violence and the sacred, reminds me of one of those big universalizing theories. He's found a new way to read the text of human history. It kind of reminds me of Freud unlocking a new reading of Oedipus. And then suddenly it's like, oh, look, like father-son conflict, Oedipus. Oh, Hamlet. Oh, Greek myth. Like everywhere. And then all throughout the biblical texts and all the religious traditions. And you just trace this discovery through everything. And it becomes this big universalizing claim. And then it starts having this interdisciplinary effect where, as we saw last time we talked about it, The Sociology of Violence with Gessa Lindemann. […]
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