In Women Reading Confessions, Abigail L. Rosenthal and Amanda Horgan explore Confessions of a Young Philosopher through reading and conversation.
In each episode, Abigail reads an excerpt from her philosophical memoir before she and Amanda reflect on the questions, memories, and experiences it brings to the surface. Their conversations connect Abigail’s coming of age with the lives of women today, creating a dialogue across generations about love, desire, identity, motherhood, ambition, vulnerability, and the struggle to live truthfully.
Together, they consider how women understand the stories of their lives, how experience shapes identity, and how the meaning of an event can change when it is revisited years later. Amanda brings the perspective of a contemporary reader, while Abigail offers both the immediacy of the woman who lived the story and the insight of the philosopher looking back.
Part literary reading, part personal conversation, and part philosophical reflection, Women Reading Confessions invites listeners into an intimate exchange between an author and a woman discovering the memoir alongside her.
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About the Book
Confessions of a Young Philosopher is Abigail L. Rosenthal’s remarkable philosophical memoir — a woman’s journey through the life of the mind, told with candor, wit, and moral vision.
From her early encounters with philosophy to the personal struggles that shaped her understanding of good and evil, Abigail writes — and now speaks — with a rare combination of intellectual precision and human warmth.
As Jerry and Abigail reflect together, they bring both marital intimacy and philosophical distance to bear — showing what it means to think, argue, and love across a lifetime of shared inquiry.
