📚 11 Books mentioned in "Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227" of Lex Fridman Podcast

you wrote with him the book titled all things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age first can you maybe speak about who that man was what you learned from him

Lex Fridman introduces the book co-authored by Sean Kelly and Hubert Dreyfus, asking about its content and the collaboration.

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i read it in high school i read the fountainhead in high school and atlas shrugged but that's at this point

Sean Kelly mentions reading Ayn Rand's book "Atlas Shrugged" in high school.

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He gives this in in his big book being in nothingness and he says um so waiters play played

Sean Kelly mentions Sartre's "big book" where he gives an example about a waiter.

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and he writes these sort of incredibly moving letters when he's trying to write the pale king which is the end of which is the unfinished novel that really sort of drove him to distraction

Sean Kelly discusses David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel "The Pale King" and its themes of boredom and meaninglessness.

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one of many failings is i've never gotten through moby dick or or any of melville's works so maybe can you comment on before we talk about dave or david foster wallace who i have gotten through

Lex Fridman mentions his failure to read Herman Melville's book "Moby Dick".

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but there's more of uh like with siddhartha there's more almost like a buddhist

Lex Fridman mentions Herman Hesse's book "Siddhartha" while discussing Hesse's work and its themes.

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and for him uh i'm starting to forget steppenwolf i think is uh humor

Lex Fridman mentions Herman Hesse's book "Steppenwolf" while discussing Hesse's work and its themes, specifically humor.

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So let me talk about the brothers karamazov Yes partly because that's the last novel that dostoevsky wrote

Sean Kelly introduces Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov" as a key text for discussing existentialist ideas related to guilt and responsibility.

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plato says in the republic it's a kind of myth but you know he he says people will understand their their condition

Sean Kelly mentions Plato's book "The Republic" in the context of Plato's ideas about human nature.

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i read it in high school i read the fountainhead in high school and atlas shrugged but that's at this point

Sean Kelly mentions reading Ayn Rand's book "The Fountainhead" in high school.

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and for years i didn't teach camus because the famous thing that you're referring to the myth of sisyphus which is a sort of essay it's published as a book

Sean Kelly discusses Camus's essay/book "The Myth of Sisyphus" and its famous opening line about suicide.

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