This episode is about the universal versus the particular, in film, poetry and prose.There's a new thing, which is that you can now read this episode's transcript!In this episode, I discuss the Wenders film Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987).(Wenders' Q&A should be posted on the BFI YouTube channel.)I also consider the relationship of the universal to the particular; see this Twitter thread.I refer to The Master & His Emissary, by Iain McGilchrist (2009), as well as The Problem of Knowledge, by Ernst Cassirer (1950), Conversations with Goethe (1836–1848).I also refer to Being You, by Anil Seth (2021).At the end, I read "Love Constant Beyond Death" (1648), by Francisco de Quevado, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.Historiansplaining podcast and the upcoming Twitter Space I'm holding with Sam Biagetti.
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