web02.fireside.fm Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:53:49 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Rousseau” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/rousseau Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:00:00 -0400 Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. en-us episodic Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory Geoff Shullenberger Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. no critical theory, conspiracy theory, outsider intellectuals, outsiders, the outside Geoff Shullenberger gshullenb@gmail.com A Critique of "The Dawn of Everything" with Sam Biagetti https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/dawn-of-everything 1035b0bc-667d-43a7-bea8-8093062d2269 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Sam Biagetti of Historiansplaining podcast joins me to discuss David Graber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything." 3:03:55 no Sam Biagetti of Historiansplaining podcast joins me to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's ugly in David Graber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything." We begin with an appreciative account of their dismantling of deterministic accounts of human social evolution, and then turn to a critical assessment of their theoretical assumption, their peculiar revisionist account of the Enlightenment, and their undervaluing of myth, ritual, and transcendence. The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything Listen to and support Historiansplaining here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632 Sam's cross-post of this episode has a useful list of other sources discussed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dissecting-dawn-63996926 david graeber, david wengrow, dawn of everything, human origins, social evolution, rousseau, noble savage Sam Biagetti of Historiansplaining podcast joins me to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's ugly in David Graber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything." We begin with an appreciative account of their dismantling of deterministic accounts of human social evolution, and then turn to a critical assessment of their theoretical assumption, their peculiar revisionist account of the Enlightenment, and their undervaluing of myth, ritual, and transcendence.

The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything

Listen to and support Historiansplaining here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632

Sam's cross-post of this episode has a useful list of other sources discussed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dissecting-dawn-63996926

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The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything

Listen to and support Historiansplaining here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632

Sam's cross-post of this episode has a useful list of other sources discussed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dissecting-dawn-63996926

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