Philosophy · 17 min
Nausea
By Jean-Paul Sartre
This episode unpacks Sartre's 'Nausea' to reveal how our radical freedom, though unsettling, is the very ground for creating authentic meaning in an indifferent world.
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Philosophy
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17 min
What it is about
Existentialism, Radical Freedom, Meaning-Making
Who it is for
If you've ever felt a quiet unease about the 'given' meaning of things, or the weight of choices that seem to have no pre-ordained right answer, this will resonate, and this will help you see what to do next.
The author
Jean-Paul Sartre, a towering figure of 20th-century philosophy, articulated the clear anxieties and liberating truths of existentialism not just through academic texts, but through the raw, lived experience captured in his seminal novel, 'Nausea'.
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