{"podcast":{"title":"The Partially Examined Life","slug":"the-partially-examined-life-1605957","podcast_index_feed_id":1605957,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/1416170.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/1416170","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/33102787.jpg","author":"Mark Linsenmayer","episode_count":500,"summary":"The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode we pick a text and chat about it with insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy or even have read the text we're talking about to follow and enjoy the discussion.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T04:19:21.522787+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-partially-examined-life-1605957"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 388: Hegel on Culture (Part One)","slug":"ep-388-hegel-on-culture-part-one","published_at":"2026-03-30T03:42:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-partially-examined-life-1605957/ep-388-hegel-on-culture-part-one","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-partially-examined-life-1605957","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8880369","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8880369.mp3?modified=1774843637&sid=1416170&source=rss","summary":"Continuing on Hegel's Phenomenology , \"Spirit\" chapter, now up to sections 484-510, which is the first part of \"Self-Alienated Spirit. Culture.\" In Hegel's ongoing semi-mythical story about the development of the modern self and society, we're now at a point where people are \"bare persons,\" legally recognized but not distinguished from each other. We thicken these thin selves using cultural contents: your profession, your group memberships, your style, etc. But this way of individuating is fundamentally self-alienating: these ways that we identify ourselves are foreign to our souls! Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com . Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion.","meta_description":"Continuing on Hegel's Phenomenology , \"Spirit\" chapter, now up to sections 484-510, which is the first part of \"Self-Alienated Spirit. Culture.\" In Hegel'…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2546,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-partially-examined-life-1605957/episodes/ep-388-hegel-on-culture-part-one/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-partially-examined-life-1605957/ep-388-hegel-on-culture-part-one.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}