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How to lead a meaningful life?  How can we lead a good life and enjoy happiness in a world without a providential God? "In Think Least of Death, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Steven Nadler connects Spinoza’s ideas with his life and times to offer a compelling account of how the philosopher can provide a guide to living one’s best life." All the show notes  👉 https://artidote.uk/episodes/steven-nadler 📩  If you love reading, join my monthly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/he7YKD 🎧 Get Audible Trial: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=artidote-21

This episode’s guest is Rachel Corbett, the author of a brilliant book called You Must Change Your Life, which tells the story of the brief and intense relationship between renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke was a delicate young visitor from Prague in Paris, he was broke and suffering from writer’s block. He was commissioned to write a book on Rodin, who was already a renowned sculptor at the time, this is when everything changes You Must Change Your Life reveals one of the great stories of modern art and literature: Rodin and Rilke’s years together as master and disciple, their heartbreaking rift, and moving reconciliation. In her vibrant debut, Rachel Corbett reveals how Rodin’s influence lead Rilke to write his most celebrated poems and inspired his beloved Letters to a Young Poet. She captures the dawn of modernism with appearances by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Lou Andreas Salome, George Bernard Show and Jean Cocteau. In this interview I also wanted to ask Rachel about how Rodin and Rilke changed HER life, how she discovered them, and what are her favourite poems by Rilke and her favourite sculptures by Rodin. I know this might sound cliche, but When I was reading this book I was getting a strong feeling as if I am reading the script for the second part of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. Get the Book: You Must Change Your Life by Rachel Corbett Follow Rachel on Twitter 📩  If you love reading, join my monthly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/he7YKD 🎧 Get Audible Trial: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=artidote-21

In our age of immediacy John Ruskin’s ideas remain important more than ever. He can teach us how to see beauty, how to gain control over attention span and how to genuinely care about nature. He was a visionary who predicted many of the challenges we are facing today, such as climate change and culture of distraction. Through his writings we can learn how to become better and live in harmony with the word. In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Suzanne Fagence Cooper, who wrote a  brilliant biography of Ruskin. It is a wonderful introduction to his work for those, who like me, did not know where to start reading his works. What would Ruskin think of modern architecture? What would be his advice to us on how to live a meaningful life? These are just two of many questions I asked Dr. Fagence Cooper in this episode. 📌 DR. SUZANNE FAGENCE COOPER'S PROFILE 📌 CHECK HER BOOK HERE 📩  If you love reading, join my monthly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/he7YKD 🎧 Get Audible Trial: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=artidote-21

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different circumstances - as a husband and father with his wife and small child in tow. Kaag travels to the peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche routinely summered, and where he wrote his mysterious landmark work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both trips are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche's philosophy, yet they bring Kaag to radically different revelations about the human condition. Entertaining, intimate and thought-provoking, Hiking with Nietzsche explores not only Nietzsche's ideals but how his philosophy relates to us in the 21st century. (From the back of the book) I was often asked 'Where to start reading Nietzsche?'. It is a hard question to answer, because each person has "their own" Nietzsche. Professor Kaag spent decades of his life studying and teaching philosophy of the famous philosopher. I believe his book is a perfect introduction to Nietzsche, because it combines three key elements: first of all it tells about N's key ideas; secondly it tells about the philosopher's hard life; and then it applies N's ideas to our own time, making it more tangible and applicable to us. 📚 You can find John Kaag's books here: 📝 My favourite quotes from the book : 🧠 If you love reading, join my monthly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/he7YKD 🎧 Get Audible Trial: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=artidote-21

In this interview the Italian pianist Federico Albanese tells about his inspirations from writers such as Virginia Woolf to film-makers like Terrence Malick. He also tells about his latest collaborative EP with Tara Nome Doyle. You can find Federico's EP and all the references of the episode here: https://artidote.uk/episodes/federico-albanese You can listen to EP on our playlist on Spotify. Subscribe to my newsletter for more on classical music: http://eepurl.com/he7YKD Get Audible Trial: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=artidote-21 This episode was mastered by Ilia Rogatchevski. You can find his other work here. Instagram

Vashik Armenikus invites Steven Gambardella - one of the top writers on philosophy on Medium to discuss modern Stoicism, ideas of Nietzsche and how fine art and classical music have the same healing effects on our mental health as philosophy. Stevens's page: https://artidote.uk/episodes/steven-gambardella Medium: https://stevengambardella.medium.com/ Get Free-trial on Audible: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=artidote-21 Get book recs: http://eepurl.com/he7YKD