{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e3852cbdb67c0f94f393857/5e38537d94ec4b4a36d447cf?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism","description":"<p>What is free market existentialism? Why have adherents of existentialism so often chosen Marxism as their political philosophy?<br /><br />William Irwin joins us this week to discuss his book, <em><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Free-Market-Existentialist-Capitalism-Consumerism/dp/1119121280\">The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism</a></em> (2015)<em>.</em><br /><br />What purpose or meaning can we give life, if we start from a place where we take as a given that there is no inherent or divine purpose to life? Why should libertarians also be existentialists?</p><p><strong>Show Notes and Further Reading</strong><br /><br />William Irwin’s book, <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Free-Market-Existentialist-Capitalism-Consumerism/dp/1119121280\"><em>The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism</em></a> (2015) challenges assumptions about morality, natural rights and the role of government using insights from thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Nozick, and F. A. Hayek.</p>","author_name":"Libertarianism.org"}