A field Guide To Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit |
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In this episode we discuss the book ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit. A complex and far reaching work, themes are discussed of; travel, finding yourself by losing yourself, psychological transformation, questions of youth, existential angst, environmentalism, and many more in relation to what being lost means to the subjective experience. We also have reference to, or comment on; the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno, the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin, the book Walden: Or, Life in The Woods by Henry David Thoreau, the adventures of Spaniard Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca into unexplored America, the novel Regeneration by Pat Barker, the Greek Mythology story of Tiresias, Oedipus and Zeus, the French artist Yves Klien, the philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Aristotle. All references and quotes are made for educational purposes only.
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