The Caffeine Stream
The Caffeine Stream
C.B. Robertson
Episode 17: An Introduction to Matthew Crawford
57 minutes Posted Sep 21, 2022 at 2:33 am.
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Today we take a look at a favorite contemporary philosopher named Matthew Crawford. Crawford is a political theorist-turned-motorcycle technician, writer, and (I argue) model pagan. I go over Crawford's three books and what they're all about:

  • Shop Class as Soulcraft - a polemical defense of manual competence
  • The World Beyond Your Head - an exploration of our crisis of attention and how we might go about defining our way out of it
  • Why We Drive - a book defending the importance of self-motion against a philosophy that seeks to turn us from drivers into passengers in our lives

You can find Matthew Crawford's shorter essays on his website.

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