Amod Lele's guest appearances

Amod Lele

The Middle Way Society

Naked Humanity

Arie Kruglanski

Chuck Klosterman

Sally Kohn

Abel James

Peter Block

Karen Armstrong

Tim Kaine

Dan Siegel

Eckhart Tolle

Daniel Goleman

Tupac Shakur

Melanie Joy

Stuart Firestein

Sugata Mitra

Anthony McCann

OwlTail

Ever get the advice to just “find yourself”? In this fascinating podcast Stefani chats with scholar Amod Lele about how Western society romanticizes individualism. Why are we obsessed with being unique, and are there more or less healthy ways to do it? To explore these ideas they dive deep into the relationship Being Yourself has with capitalism, with cultural appropriation, and with identity politics. Also discussed are transgender rights, the Budddhist notion of selfhood, Frozen, and Monty Python.

<p>Ever get the advice to just “find yourself”? In this fascinating podcast Stefani chats with scholar Amod Lele about how Western society romanticizes individualism. Why are we obsessed with being unique, and are there more or less healthy ways to do it? To explore these ideas they dive deep into the relationship Being Yourself has with capitalism, with cultural appropriation, and with identity politics. Also discussed are transgender rights, the Budddhist notion of selfhood, Frozen, and Monty Python.</p>

28: Individualism vs Identity Politics with Amod Lele

We are joined today by Amod Lele, who teaches Indian philosophy at Boston University. He is also Visiting Researcher at the Center for the Study of Asia, and an Educational Technologist with Information Services &amp; Technology. He writes a regular blog in cross-cultural philosophy, called Love of All Wisdom on which I came across an article he wrote on ‘Literal Conservatism’ and this will be the topic of our discussion today

Interview 123: Amod Lele on Literal Conservatism