From Mitch’s notebook about this episode:

“I have always been almost as interested in certain topics like history and philosophy as much as the arts. The first time I encounters the name George Kateb was in a quite old book from the early 1990s where the phrase "positive alienation" was attributed to one George Kateb. More familiar with the word alienation as being (only) a pejorative the curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to find out what in the world a positive form of that would even look like. 

I eventually found myself basically reading (almost) everything the man has written .Kateb is perhaps unusual on our podcast in that he is specifically a political philosopher and not, say, a playwright, actor or musician.

But if you dig a little deeper into his work, especially the fact that Emerson, that most aesthetic minded of American philosophers, was one of his biggest influences the choice of Kateb seems in every way a perfect one for Journey Of An Aesthete.

I really enjoyed our discussion and both for those familiar as well as unfamiliar with what is called political philosophy I certainly hope it is as enjoyable to listen to as it was for us to have this discussion with one of my favorite writers and thinkers.”

Links to more about George and his beautiful work :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEvF4ZYDeA