Category: philosophical counseling
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My Big Think Interview: The Worship of Work: How Our Obsession With Productivity Makes Us Less Human
Total Work, a term coined by the philosopher Josef Pieper, is the process by which human beings are transformed into workers as work, like a total solar eclipse, comes to “occult” all other aspects of life. In this interview with Big Think, I talk about the nature of total work: To sign up for my “Total Work Newsletter:…
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Total Work Newsletter: How Work Took Over the World
Total work is the process by which human beings are transformed into Workers and nothing less while more aspects of life are slowly transformed into work. In this newsletter, I’ll be documenting, reflecting upon, and seeking to understand this world-historical process, one that started at least as far back as 1800 and quite possibly well…
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‘If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living?’ My Aeon Essay
My Aeon essay begins this way: Imagine that work had taken over the world. It would be the centre around which the rest of life turned. Then all else would come to be subservient to work. Then slowly, almost imperceptibly, anything else – the games once played, the songs hitherto sung, the loves fulfilled, the festivals celebrated…
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The Philosopher Is Present #1: Questions In The Darkness
Overview “The Philosopher Is Present #1: Questions In The Darkness” was a live performance held at the LungA School in Iceland on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Brief Description “The Philosopher Is Present” is a performance intending to evoke mystery. Silence gestures toward ineffable presence while two strangers’ voices speaking into each other’s inclined ears…
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My RadReads Podcast: Skimming the Surface of Life
In this RadReads podcast with host Khe Hy, “Skimming the Surface of Life,” we discuss high performers’ antagonistic relationship with time and their desire to turn life into a series of problems which can be resolved — and how this can mask our disorienting relationship with mortality. Instead of avoiding these question, we consider how an examined…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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