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Existentialism and Meaning with Theodore Dalrymple

2019/9/7
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Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple  is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England. He is the author of a number of books, including Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass; Our Culture, What's Left of It; and Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality.     In this episode we will be discussing existentialism, meaning, responsibility and his book The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurdwhich he co-authored with Kenneth Francis.    

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