17. Does Love Transcend Time? With Troy Jollimore

Ethics Untangled

This episode is an exploration of the relationship between love and time with Troy Jollimore. As well as being a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University, Troy is a successful poet. His first collection of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for 2006. His third, Syllabus of Errors, appeared on the New York Times' list of the best books of poetry published in 2015. He's also a literary critic, and in this interview he illustrates his ideas with examples from films and literature, as well as real life.
You can find out more about Troy's work - the philosophy, the poetry and the literary criticism - here:
https://www.troyjollimore.com/
There's a list of his philosophical papers here, including things he's written about films including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Vertigo and The Big Lebowski, all of which are referred to in the episode:
https://www.troyjollimore.com/philosophy-papers
You can read the Song of Solomon (King James version) here:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=KJV
...and you can listen to 'Endless Love' by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bwwo7ctG10
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