Articles of Interest

In my ongoing series with Derek Guy, going chapter by chapter through The Rise Of Fashion, we get to philosophy's original rebel without a cause: Jean Jacques Rousseau. 
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How did a  practical, essential tool become an expensive status symbol? 
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The philosophy club is back with a very special one: Voltaire's poem Man of The World. 
Derek Guy and Avery discuss what it means to love this messed-up, materialist, consumerist world-- at least in the way that Voltaire does. 
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How did used clothing lose its proverbial and literal stink? 
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The Philosophy club continues. This time, Derek Guy joins to talk about Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son. It's kind of a weird book!
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