Sheldon Solomon on death, psychiatry, existentialism, politics | Thing in itself w/ Ashar Khan

Sheldon Solomon is an American social psychologist at Skidmore College. He is known for developing terror management theory, along with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski, which is concerned with how humans deal with their own sense of mortality. 0:00 intro 2:18 death 7:03 experimental psychology meets existential philosophy 15:50 positive psychology 29:22 is psychiatry based on a dysfunction model? 33:53 cultural values 45:44 the role of economic and political structures 53:04 Hobbes, Locke, and political theory 56:53 Nietzsche and the fleeting now 1:01:54 Heidegger 1:11:55 future of terror management theory Solomon, Greenberg, and Pyszczynski. The Worm at the Core: On the role of Death in Life (2015) Personal Website: https://www.asharkhan.ca/ Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0dUBLTl... Google: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Amazon: https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/9c6c...