Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-10-16
Tyler Cowen & Musa al-Gharbi: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements
Subscribe to Pluralist Points on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor at Stony Brook University whose research explores how people think about, t
Musa al-Gharbi recommended The Islamic Moses by Mustafa Akyol, and discussed The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, and The Name of the Rose (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) by Umberto Eco. Tyler Cowen recommended We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The WEIRDest People in the World
Discussed“part of Joe Joe henrik's argument in the weirdest people of the the world is that actually what sets what sets weird Society what what kind of create helped push for these kind of unique ways of thinking about Society in the world was actually not protestantism”
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The Islamic Moses
Recommended“there's a great book that just came out I think it's Mustafa iol who wrote it called the Muslim Moses”
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Foucault's Pendulum
Discussed“I had a couple of books by Umberto EO that I have wanted to read for a long time fuos pendulum the name of the Rose and so I I dove into those I really enjoyed them”
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The Name of the Rose (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books)
Discussed“I had a couple of books by Umberto EO that I have wanted to read for a long time fuos pendulum the name of the Rose and so I I dove into those I really enjoyed them”
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We Have Never Been Woke
Recommended“I think again I'm a fan of musa's new book we have never been woke the cultural contradictions of a new Elite”
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Plugged We Have Never Been Woke
“October 8th is the publication date for his new and excellent book we have never been woke the cultural contradictions of a new Elite”
Plugged We Have Never Been Woke
“in the book one of the things that I argue in the book that I think is really important for contextualizing the current moment is that this current period of of Rapid change and how knowledge economy professionals talk and think about social justice and the ways we engage in politics”