{"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. 391: Habermas Defends Modernity (Part One)","slug":"ep-391-habermas-defends-modernity-part-one","published_at":"2026-05-11T12:03:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-partially-examined-life-1605957/ep-391-habermas-defends-modernity-part-one","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-partially-examined-life-1605957","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8901939","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8901939.mp3?modified=1778501492&sid=1416170&source=rss","summary":"On Jürgen Habermas' The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985), featuring guest John Ganz. Habermas defines modernity as Enlightenment ideals, discusses what's wrong with them (subjectivity), how Hegel argues constructively that a social element needs to be added this this, and how many other critics (e.g. Adorno, Nietzsche, and Foucault) instead argue more destructively against Enlightenment values like Truth, liberty, and justice. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com . Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion. Sponsors: Check out the Scribe Optimize Workflow AI platform at Scribe.how/PEL . Get a $1/month e-commerce trial at shopify.com/pel.","meta_description":"On Jürgen Habermas' The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985), featuring guest John Ganz. Habermas defines modernity as Enlightenment ideals, discus…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3103,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-partially-examined-life-1605957/episodes/ep-391-habermas-defends-modernity-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-391-habermas-defends-modernity-part-one.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}