History of Philosophy Audio Archive
By William Engels
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by William Engels
Category: Education
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 26
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 224
JR
Feb 22, 2025
amazing trove!
Description
Curated lectures, interviews, and talks with philosophers, social scientists, and historians together in one place. Each week, we explore brand new research in history, economics, psychology, political science, philosophy, indigenous studies, and human rights while presenting the work of canonical scholars in a way that is accessible to newcomers while retaining interest for students and specialists. If you are an author in nonfiction or a scholar in the humanities/social sciences and are interested in being interviewed for the show please email me at williamengels@substack.com or @Bluesky.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir (feat. the Bad Role Models) Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House
|
Dec 12, 2025 |
|
Escape from the TechnoSphere feat. Jacob Ward: Sam Altman, AI Girlfriends, Karp and Thiel, the Dubious Hobbits of Palantir, Jevon's Paradox, and The Unstoppable Onslaught of Clanker-Made Slop
|
Dec 09, 2025 |
|
Nuclear Cascade with Jack Kennedy - Nukes in South Korea, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, New Cold War with China, Russia/Ukraine, Deterrence, Iran's/Iraq's WMDs, NeoCons, and Missile Defense
|
Nov 24, 2025 |
|
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna - Graham St John on McKenna's Life and Work, Psilocybin and DMT, Psychedelic History, Alchemy, the Experiment at La Chorrera, +the Eschaton
|
Nov 23, 2025 |
|
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Part 1)
|
Nov 20, 2025 |
|
Goethe's Faust - Michael Sugrue on the Worldly Gospel, German Romanticism, Intellect and Theology, Mephistopheles and the Spirit of Negation, Gretchen's Eternal Feminine, and Last Minute Salvation
|
Nov 19, 2025 |
|
The Lessons of History feat. Dr. Roy Casagranda - Henry Kissinger, the Iraq War, Esoteric Platonism and the Neocons, Cycles in Political Power, Education Reform, Hiroshima, Anarchism, and State Power
|
Nov 09, 2025 |
|
What is Existentialism? - Bert Dreyfus on Sartre, Heidegger, Pascal, Camus, Kierkegaard, Philosophy's Struggle with Christianity, Dostoevsky, and the Road to Authenticity (HoPAA #176)
|
Nov 09, 2025 |
|
The "Ceasefire" in Gaza feat. Sabrina Jennings
|
Nov 09, 2025 |
|
The Ballroom feat. William Sanchez (Hemlock #34)
|
Nov 08, 2025 |
|
HEMLOCK HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: HAUNTOLOGY - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, Left Melancholia, the Arab Spring, Walter Benjamin, and the Slow Cancellation of the Future (H33)
|
Oct 31, 2025 |
|
A Skeleton Key to James Joyce: Mythologist Joseph Campbell on Irish Literature and Joyce's Novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake (HoPAA #175)
|
Oct 25, 2025 |
|
Dante's Divine Comedy: Professor Hubert Dreyfus on the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, Beatrice, Vergil, and the Beatific Vision (HoPAA #173e)
|
Oct 21, 2025 |
|
The Practical Value of Philosophy: Will Engels Interviewed by Roubin Thind on Education, Spirituality, Guerilla Media, US-China Relations, Blue Collar Intellectuals, the Origins of HoPAA (Hemlock #34)
|
Oct 21, 2025 |
|
The Gospel According to John: Hubert Dreyfus on the Logos, the Trinity, and the Ontological Transformations of Christianity (HoPAA #172d)
|
Oct 20, 2025 |
|
Magnolia (1999): A Love Letter - Paul Thomas Anderson's Greatest Film, Fate, Freemasons, Intergenerational Trauma, Pick Up Artists, Aimee Mann, and Why It's Not Going to Stop (Til' You Wise Up) BRM6b
|
Oct 14, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #32: Machines of Loving Grace - Palantir, Alex Karp, Alchemy and Science, Brute Force Mimetic Objects, Atomic Poetry, the Automation of Violence, and the Endless Empire of Perpetual Advantage
|
Oct 12, 2025 |
|
#174 - Dealing with Hungry Ghosts: Thích Nhất Hạnh on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Realizing Emptiness, Self-Compassion, and Living as a Transmission from Ancestors
|
Oct 11, 2025 |
|
#173 - The Myths of Capital: Michael Parenti on Rags to Riches Fables, Pacifying Propaganda, Wealth Pyramids and Perpetual Scarcity, Corporate Power, and the Socialist Response to the Ruling Ideology
|
Oct 11, 2025 |
|
BRM7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp
|
Oct 06, 2025 |
|
#172c - Vergil and the Roman Tradition: Bert Dreyfus' Complete Course on the Aeneid, Augustus Caesar, Roman Propaganda, The Fall of Troy, Dido and Carthage, the Rise of Empire, and Latin Poetic Myth
|
Oct 05, 2025 |
|
BRM6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking
|
Oct 01, 2025 |
|
Bad Role Models #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void
|
Sep 25, 2025 |
|
Mission Accomplished: A Documentary Doctors Retrospective - Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11, the War on Terror, Robert Fisk, Neocon Fear Bubbles, Saudi Connections, & Why It's All About The Petrodollar (DD8)
|
Sep 19, 2025 |
|
BRM4b: The HST Bonus Show - Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycle Crashes, and Finding the Edge
|
Sep 15, 2025 |
|
BRM4a: Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen - Fear and Loathing in the Sheriff's Office, Greedheads, Hatemongers, and Yellow-Eyed Hyenas, The Freak Power Ticket, Fat City, and the Death of the American Dream
|
Sep 15, 2025 |
|
172b - Aeschylus: Bert Dreyfus on Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Furies and the Eumenides, Pouring Out of Libations, Athenian Tragedy, and the Pessimism of the Greeks
|
Sep 11, 2025 |
|
DD7 - Judas and the Black Messiah: Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers, FBI/COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover, the Rainbow Coalition, MHCHAOS, MLK and Malcolm X, Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, and the CIA
|
Sep 09, 2025 |
|
#172a - The Odyssey: A Philosophical Analysis, Hubert Dreyfus on Artistic Worldmaking, the Attuning Gift of Greek Gods, Telemachus' Journey to Manhood, Autonomy and the Divine Inspiration
|
Sep 05, 2025 |
|
DD6 - 40 Years in Solitary: "Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3", Solitary Confinement, Torture, Jim Crow, Black Radicalism, Private Prisons, Prison Labor, and Mass Incarceration
|
Sep 02, 2025 |
|
DD5 Eichmann in Jerusalem: "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt" Banality of Evil, Between Past and Future, Totalitarianism in Democracy, K. Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, the Third Reich, Fascism
|
Sep 02, 2025 |
|
Consolatio #6: The Finest Threads that Bind the Truth - Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy on Free Will, Higher Intelligence, History and Eternity, Hope's Epitaph
|
Aug 25, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #31: McNamara's Cold War: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Bill Taubman on Vietnam, the Domino Theory, Khrushchev & Gorbachev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Tokyo Firebombing, Nuclear Abolition
|
Aug 23, 2025 |
|
The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (BRM #3, Explicit) with Mr. Richard - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, 50s Americana, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mr. Eddy, Now It's Dark
|
Aug 17, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #30 - Kaila Yu: Orientalism (Old and New), WW2 Comfort Women, Disney Princesses, Imperialism and the Sex Trade, Okinawa Air Base, Asian Fetishization, Memoirs of a Geisha, Playboy, +New Book
|
Aug 14, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #29 - Welcome to the First Crusade Feat. American Prestige and We're Not So Different: Magic Spears, Starving Franks, Holy Massacres, Historical Himbos, and Why Only the First Crusade Worked
|
Aug 12, 2025 |
|
#171a - John Brown: Susan Neiman on One Man's Terrorist is Another Man's Freedom Fighter, Radical Ethics and Activism, Violence and Nonviolence, Battle Hymn of the Republic, & Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural
|
Aug 10, 2025 |
|
#171 - Heroism for a Time of Victims: Susan Neiman on Modern Myths, Odysseus, Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, Adorno, George Eliot, Circe, John Brown and the Civil War, and Why We Need Heroes Today
|
Aug 09, 2025 |
|
#169b - Death: Shelly Kagan on the Living in the Face of Death, the Problem of Immortality, Suicide and the Value of Life, Loneliness, Overcoming and Confronting the Fear of Death
|
Aug 06, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #28 Watchmen: A Cold War Essay (Part One) Ozymandias, The Doomsday Clock, Rorschach, Nukes in Vietnam, Berlin Pop, Rilke, Thomas Merton & the Unspeakable, and Confronting the End of the World
|
Aug 04, 2025 |
|
BRM #2b - Byron: Frankenstein's Monster, Ada Lovelace, Dodging Child Support, 19th Century Gossip Columns, the Greek War for Independence, Butt Issues, Hayao Miyazaki, de Sade, and David Lynch
|
Aug 04, 2025 |
|
Bad Role Models #2a: Lord Byron with Richard, Earl of Sinex - European Grand Tours, Childhood Trauma, Crappy 18th century Dads, the Elgin Marbles, Bad Teenage Poetry, Dodging the Coppers Like a Dandy
|
Jul 31, 2025 |
|
DocDocs #4: The Riot Report: Lyndon Johnson, the Newark Riots, MLK/Malcolm X, the Kerner Commission, Redlining, Vietnam and Civil Rights, Militarized Police, Jimmy Baldwin, and the End of Jim Crow
|
Jul 31, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #27 - Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): My Talk w/ Greg Sadler on Virtue Ethics, Zizek and Lacan, Modes of Rationality, Effective Altruism /Bentham, After Virtue, Thomism, Mill, & Heavy Metal
|
Jul 20, 2025 |
|
DocDocs #3 - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Patrice Lumumba and the CIA, Dizzy Gillespie for President, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, The Great Nina Simone, Frantz Fanon, Congo Liberation, Uranium, IMF, Jazz
|
Jul 14, 2025 |
|
#170 - 2nd Biannual Report to the Shareholders: Roy Casagranda, Boethius, the American Terror Series, Virginia Woolf, Alasdair MacIntyre, Getting Emailed by Kn@tsies, Contrapoints, Gratitude
|
Jul 13, 2025 |
|
#169a - Death: Shelly Kagan on Plato, Immortality, Physicalism versus Dualism, Individual Continuity Across Time and Space, Arguing the Existence of the Soul, Phaedo and Socrates, Memento Mori
|
Jul 06, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #26 - Targeting the Death Star with Guillermo Zapata: Palantir, ICE Camps, Peter Thiel & the Antichrist, Vaclav Havel, Star Wars and Rogue One, Maersk/BDS, Deporting Zohran, Melancholia, Gaza
|
Jul 04, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #25 - Maturity: Taoism, Confucianism, Epicureanism, Kierkegaard's Aesthetic/Hedonistic Way of Life, the Origins of Evil, Ahimsa/Nonviolence, and Disputing the Tao
|
Jul 03, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #24 - Countdown: Journalist Sarah Scoles on Nuclear Weapons Safety, Jill Tarter and SETI, Nuclear LARPing, the Golden Dome and Missile Defense, and What Really Happens at Los Alamos
|
Jun 24, 2025 |
|
Consolatio #5 - For the Evil, Show Your Pity: Book 4 of the Consolation of Philosophy, All Things Depend Upon Will and Power, Virtue is the Health of the Soul, Our Aim Is To Be Unlike Those We Hate
|
Jun 23, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #22 - Congratulations to the Neocons: We're Now At War with Iran - Also the Effective Altruist/AI Grifters, Because That's What I Wanted To Talk About Before The Bombing Began
|
Jun 22, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #21 - Iran in the Modern World: Five Sideways Reflections, Operation AJAX, FDR and the Yalta Pact with Saudi Arabia, Oil and the AIOC, Mossadegh, Israel, Nuclear Blackmail, and the Great Satan
|
Jun 15, 2025 |
|
DocDocs #2 - The Act of Killing: Musical Theater, Politicide, Death Squads, Suharto/Sukarno, East Timor, Interviews with Mass Murderers, American Gangster Movies, and the Aesthetics of Violence
|
Jun 15, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #20 - Abuses of Power, Constitutional Reform, and the Gaza Holocaust, featuring William Sanchez
|
Jun 15, 2025 |
|
Bhagwan Richard Presents: Osho (Complete Series) - Sex Cults, New Age Theology, Bioterrorism, Nurse Mengele, Dynamic Meditation, Tax Evasion, and Ten Weird Reasons You NEVER Leave a Cult Unsupervised
|
Jun 14, 2025 |
|
The Documentary Doctors #1: Sabrina Jennings and William Engels Review the Award-Winning Docs "The Bibi Files" and Al-Jazeera's Banned Documentary "The Lobby" - AIPAC, Jewish Voice for Peace, & Cigars
|
May 28, 2025 |
|
#168 - Kant: The Categorical Imperative, A Priori and A Posteriori, First and Second Critique, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kantian Ethics & Deontology, Enlightenment, and Perpetual Peace
|
May 28, 2025 |
|
#167 - Edward Said's Legacy: Cornel West on His Colleague's Work in the Middle East, the Human Spirit in Poetry, Kendrick Lamar, John Coltrane, the Funk of Life, and the Truth of Radical Solidarity
|
May 24, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #19 - The Left: A Love Letter
|
May 24, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #18 - DOME: My Response to Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Golden Dome" vis a vis the Last Forty Years of Missile Defense History
|
May 23, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #17: Trans Technologies with Oliver Haimson - Chelsea Manning, Trans Rights in the US, Technologies of Identity Formation and Community Resilience, Videogames, and the Future for Trans Youth
|
May 22, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #16: Gaia Wakes 2: Topher McDougal on Planetary Consciousness, AI Personhood and Risk, Economies of Predation and Production, Abolitionism for Sentience, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel
|
May 18, 2025 |
|
#166 - War: Chris Hedges on the Permanent Psychosis of War, Covering the Middle East for the New York Times, Gaza, Kosovo, the Plague of Violence, Corporate Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and Revolution
|
May 13, 2025 |
|
#165 - Breaking the Myth: Vintage Chomsky on Neoliberalism, US Economic Hegemony, Bretton Woods Corporate Power, the Contradictions of Capitalism, and the End of the Cold War
|
May 11, 2025 |
|
#164 - The Future of Faith: Huston Smith on Comparative Religion, Tibetan Buddhism, Scientism versus Science, the Fairness Revolution, Darwinian Reduction, and Why Religion Matters in the 21st Century
|
Apr 27, 2025 |
|
Consolatio #4 - The Crystal Fount: Boethius on True and False Happiness, the Unity of Goodness, the Two Binding Threads, the Myth of Orpheus, and Those Darknesses which Bring Ruin to the Souls of Men
|
Apr 17, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #15 - Confronting the Bomb: Franco Castro Escobar on the History of Nuclear Weapons in Japan, Antiwar Movements, World Federation, Hibakusha, Youth Antinuclear Organizations, and Fallout
|
Apr 13, 2025 |
|
#163 - May, 1968: An Intellectual and Political History of the Paris Student Revolt, Sexual Liberation, Street Philosophy, Alain Badiou, Feminism, Simon Critchley, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Zizek
|
Apr 08, 2025 |
|
#160b - The Meaning of History (2 of 2): Darren Staloff on Arnold Toynbee, R. G. Collingwood, Positivism, Arthur Danto, Fernand Braudel, Poststructuralism, and William McNeill's “Plagues and People”
|
Apr 04, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #14 - Secrets of the Killing State: Corinna Barrett Lain on Lethal Injection, the Ethics of the Death Penalty, Prison Reform, Televised Executions, and What the State Does at its Most Powerful
|
Apr 03, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #13 - Human Beings First: Rev. Dr. Helen Boursier on ICE Detention Centers, Human Rights in the Borderlands, Christian Ministry in Dark Places, and the Theology of Witness and Hospitality
|
Mar 29, 2025 |
|
#161 - The Birmingham Tragedy: James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr Discuss Civil Rights, God's Presence in Tragedy, Justice and Love, and Bearing Witness to Evil
|
Mar 27, 2025 |
|
#160a - The Meaning of History (1 of 2): Darren Staloff on Philosophical Approaches to History, Eliade, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and the Search for a Universal History of Humanity
|
Mar 18, 2025 |
|
Consolatio #3 - Book 2: Fortune's Wheel, the Lesser and Greater Teachers of Virtue, Fate and Goodness, and How Mixed with Bitterness is the Sweetness of Man's Life
|
Mar 16, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #12 - Gaia Wakes: My Conversation with Topher McDougal on AI, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Planetary Consciousness, David Graeber, Gregory Bateson, Technological Lifeforms, and Evolution
|
Mar 11, 2025 |
|
Consolatio #2 - To Oppose Evil Men is the Chief Aim We Set Before Ourselves: Book I, Entrance of Philosophy to the Dungeon, Condemnation of Stoics and Epicurus, Pi & Theta, Fear Nothing, Hope Nothing
|
Mar 02, 2025 |
|
#158 - Mircea Eliade and the Cycles of Time: Darren Staloff on Comparative Mythology, Symbolic Archetypes, the History of Religion, Eliade's Religious Scholarship, and the Theophany of Profane Events
|
Feb 28, 2025 |
|
#157 - Learn to Die So You Can Learn to Live: Cornel West on Socratic Legacy, Blues, Chekhov's Christ, American Democracy, Deep Education, Jazz, Augustine, and the Blue Note in the American Song
|
Feb 24, 2025 |
|
Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction
|
Feb 24, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #11 - Call Your Friends (or, Unhinged Volume II)
|
Feb 23, 2025 |
|
#156 - Sartre: Robert C. Solomon on Existential Philosophy, Responsibility, Sartre's Experience as a POW, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Phenomenology, Bad Faith, and Why We Are Doomed to Be Free
|
Feb 20, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #10 - Capital (Kapital) Volume 1: Interview with Yale's Paul North & OSU's Paul Reitter on Karl Marx's Theory of Commodification, Communism, Property Rights, Value Theory, Worker Alienation
|
Feb 18, 2025 |
|
#155 - Speaking Peace: Marshall Rosenberg on Conflict Resolution, Giraffe and Jackal Language, Nonviolent Communication, Expressing Needs and Desires, and Articulating a More Peaceful World
|
Feb 09, 2025 |
|
#154 - The Philosopher's Stone: Terence McKenna on Hermeticism, Renaissance Magic, the Hidden History of Alchemy, the Catharites, Giordano Bruno, Rosicrucians, and the Rise of the Invisible College
|
Feb 07, 2025 |
|
#153 - A Process Perspective on Human Life: John Dupré on Panpsychism, Holobionts, the Paradoxes of Speciation, Dynamics of Human Evolution, Theseus's Ship, and Processual Mechanics
|
Feb 04, 2025 |
|
Hemlock #9 - An Unhinged Rant About What Our Government Likes to Call "Detention Centers"
|
Jan 31, 2025 |
|
#151 - The British Romantic Poets: Adam Potkay on How Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Burns Worshiped Nature, Sought Transcendence, Defied Authority, and created Modern Love
|
Jan 28, 2025 |
|
#150 - The Government of the Future: Noam Chomsky on Libertarianism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Political Implications of Marxism, Individualism v Collectivism, and Prospects for Democracy and Survival
|
Jan 21, 2025 |
|
#149 - My Interview with Professor Michael Albertus on his New Book “Land Power”: Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Land Theft and Restitution, the Great Reshuffle, and the Chinese Sparrow Massacre
|
Jan 17, 2025 |
|
#148 - The Grail Quest: Joseph Campbell on the Arthurian Legends, the Adventure of Gawain, Parsifal's Quest for the Holy Grail, the Three Ages of the Church, and the Elementary Ideas of Mythology
|
Jan 13, 2025 |
|
#147 - Dzogchen: James Low on Tibetan Buddhism, the Uncontaminated Mind, Developing Clarity and Insight, Overcoming Ego, and Riding the Wave that Never Breaks
|
Dec 20, 2024 |
|
#146 - Moby Dick: Bert Dreyfus on the White Whale, the Origins of American Literature, Ahab's Madness, and Existentialist Themes in the 19th Century
|
Dec 19, 2024 |
|
Letter to the Shareholders 2025
|
Dec 13, 2024 |
|
#145 - Wittgenstein: Norman Malcom on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy, the Vienna Circle, Bertrand Russell, and Language Games
|
Dec 11, 2024 |
|
#144 - The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: Rick Roderick on Postmodernism, the Eternal Recurrence, Ressentiment, Master & Slave Morality, the Übermensch, and the Last Man
|
Dec 10, 2024 |
|
Hemlock #8 - Rituals of Fire: Astika Royal Mason on Symbols of Spiritual Transformation, the Internalization of Religious Ceremonies, Developing Spiritual Maturity, and Buddhism's Reaction to Hinduism
|
Dec 08, 2024 |
|
#143 - The End of Empire: Chris Hedges on Gaza Genocide, US Complicity, and the Fate of Conquerors
|
Dec 04, 2024 |
|
#142 - Aristotle: Thomas Brickhouse on the Golden Mean, Virtue Ethics, the Prime Mover, the Athenian Constitution, and Why Aristotle was Dante's "Master of Those Who Know"
|
Dec 03, 2024 |
|
#141 - Out of Your Mind: Alan Watts on Exploring Consciousness, The Illusion of Self, Practical Meditation Advice, the Difference between Hinduism and Buddhism, and the Wisdom of Insecurity
|
Dec 03, 2024 |
|
#140 - Albert Camus: Robert C. Solomon on the Absurd Hero, The Stranger, The Plague, Existentialism in Literature, and the Benign Indifference of the Universe
|
Nov 23, 2024 |
|
#139 - Machiavelli Double Episode: Michael Sugrue & Quentin Skinner on Renaissance Politics, the Philosophy of Ruthlessness, Nihilsm, and Why It Is a Double Pleasure to Deceive the Deceiver
|
Nov 23, 2024 |
|
#138 - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Michael Sugrue on the Stoic Ideal, Absolute Power, Resistance to Temptation, and Who Writes a Book to Themself?
|
Nov 23, 2024 |
|
#137 - Censorship: Ada Palmer on the Spanish Inquisition, Galileo and Descartes, the Renaissance Book Economy, Government Surveillance, and Self-Censorship
|
Nov 15, 2024 |
|
#135b - The Work of John Milton (Part II): John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man
|
Nov 14, 2024 |
|
#136 - Carl Jung's Approach to Therapy: Lionel Corbett on Depth Psychology, Mythic Imagery, The Treatment of Psychosis, and the Roots of Magical and Archetypal Thinking
|
Nov 14, 2024 |
|
#135a - The Work of John Milton: Yale's John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man
|
Nov 14, 2024 |
|
#133 - The Philosophy of John Dewey: Progressive Education, Occupational Psychosis, American Pragmatism, and Process Philosophy
|
Nov 09, 2024 |
|
#132 - American "Patriots": Michael Parenti on American Exceptionalism, The Jingoist Desire to be Best and First, Opposing Fascism, and What Real Love of Country Looks Like
|
Nov 08, 2024 |
|
The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin in 1940
|
Nov 08, 2024 |
|
Hemlock #7 - Zen as a Way of Life: My Interview with Zen Teacher Astika Royal Mason on Meditative Practice, Inner Silence, and Telling Stories about Spiritual Growth
|
Nov 02, 2024 |
|
#131 - Philosophy in Our Age of Imperial Decline: Cornel West on Blues and Jazz, Radical Democracy, and the Consequences of Imperial Hubris
|
Nov 02, 2024 |
|
#130 - The New War on Terror: Noam Chomsky on Subverting International Law, the Manufacture of Consent, and the True Meaning of the HW Bush's New WorldOrder [REUPLOAD]
|
Nov 01, 2024 |
|
#129 - What Good are the Humanities? Talbot Brewer
|
Nov 01, 2024 |
|
#128 - Shockwave of the Future: Terence McKenna on Psychedelic Liberation, the Alchemical Method, Matrilenial Society, The Ingression of Novelty, and Why History Ends in Green
|
Oct 28, 2024 |
|
#127 - Obscene Totalitarians: Slavoj Zizek on the Bhagavad Gita, Ideological Guilt, the Third Reich, and Stalin's Perverse Legacy
|
Oct 27, 2024 |
|
#126 - Gaia: James Lovelock on Planetary Systems, the Challenge of Climate Change, and the Role of Human Beings in Ecological Stewardship
|
Oct 27, 2024 |
|
#125 - War in the Nazi Imagination: Richard J. Evans on Hitler's Goals in Poland, British Diplomacy, Winston Churchill, and the Final Solution
|
Oct 27, 2024 |
|
#124 - The Wages of Rebellion: Chris Hedges on the Death of Liberalism, the Decline of Moral Institutions, and the Moral Imperative of Revolt
|
Oct 26, 2024 |
|
#123 - The Genocide in Gaza: Chris Hedges
|
Oct 26, 2024 |
|
#122 - The Mystery of Consciousness: Iain McGilchrist on Hemispheric Difference, The Neuroscience of Experience, Complexity Theories of the Brain, and the Ontological Implications of Holism
|
Oct 26, 2024 |
|
#121 - Philosophy and Human Values: Rick Roderick on Socrates, Epictetus, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Challenge of Postmodernism [REUPLOAD]
|
Oct 25, 2024 |
|
#119 - Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff on Behavioral Futures Markets, Collusion between Big Tech and Intelligence, the Weaponization and Commodification of "Metadata"
|
Oct 20, 2024 |
|
#118 - Fateful Triangle: Israel, Palestine, and the United States: Noam Chomsky on Settler Colonialism, The Two-State Solution, and American Foreign Policy in the Middle East [REUPLOAD]
|
Oct 20, 2024 |
|
#116 - The Meaning of Existentialism: Hubert Dreyfus on Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Artificial Intelligence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Human Nature
|
Oct 05, 2024 |
|
#115 - Why Everyone Should Read Dante: Professor Bill Cook
|
Sep 29, 2024 |
|
Hemlock #6 - Interregnum and the Angel of History
|
Sep 29, 2024 |
|
#114 - Isaiah Berlin's Lectures on Romanticism: Beethoven, Kant, Byron, Percy Shelley, and Blake [REUPLOAD #2]
|
Sep 28, 2024 |
|
Hemlock #5 - Greek Tragedy and the Net of Aeschylus
|
Sep 25, 2024 |
|
#113 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State: Chris Hedges Interviews Princeton Professor Sheldon Wolin
|
Sep 22, 2024 |
|
#111 - Guest Interview with Environmental Philosopher Guillermo Zapata: Reading Indigenous Philosophers on Confronting the Sixth Mass Extinction, Building Community, and Overcoming Corporate Power
|
Sep 11, 2024 |
|
#109 - Love and the Search for God: Thomas Merton on Rilke, Monastic versus Lay Living, and Finding God
|
Sep 07, 2024 |
|
#108 - The Philosophy of Simone Weil: Sister Ann Astell on Loving Attention, Interfaith Dialogue, Vatican 2, and Christian Mysticism
|
Sep 06, 2024 |
|
#107 - A Medicine More Fit for Humanity: Iain McGilchrist on Anti-Materialism, the Divided Brain, and How Art and Literature Can Improve Medicine
|
Sep 06, 2024 |
|
#106 (LABOR DAY SPECIAL) - Why I Am Still A Communist: Slavoj Zizek on Stalin's Terror, the Consequences of Neoliberalism, and the Refugee Crisis
|
Sep 02, 2024 |
|
#105 - The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza: J. Thomas Cook on Pantheism, the Geometric Method, and Life as a Jewish Heretic
|
Sep 02, 2024 |
|
#104 - The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard: George Connell on Infinite Resignation, the Knight of Faith, and the Path to the Spiritual Life
|
Sep 01, 2024 |
|
#103 - The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Kenneth L. Schmitz on Scholasticism, the Proof of God's Existence, and the Beatific Vision
|
Aug 30, 2024 |
|
#102 - The Philosophy of David Hume: Nicholas Capaldi on the Fact/Value Distinction, the Problem of Induction, and Natural Religion
|
Aug 23, 2024 |
|
#100 - A Complete Guide to Plato's Dialogues: Michael Sugrue on Plato's Literary Style, the Visibility of Reason, and the Emergence of Justice and Wisdom [REUPLOAD]
|
Aug 20, 2024 |
|
#99 - Power and Ideology at the New School: Noam Chomsky on Internationalism, Media Bias, and US Global Aggression
|
Aug 19, 2024 |
|
#98 - Nonviolent Communication: Marshall Rosenberg on Resolving Conflict, Negotiating Compassionately, and Creating Peace
|
Aug 18, 2024 |
|
#97 - The Sword & the Dollar, The US Role in Central America: Michael Parenti on Banana Republics, Anti-Hispanic Racism, and Liberation Theology
|
Aug 15, 2024 |
|
#96 - Hegel, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and the Meaning of History: Michael Sugrue
|
Aug 14, 2024 |
|
#94 - David Graeber: Debt, a Five-Thousand Year History
|
Aug 12, 2024 |
|
#93- Chaotic Emergence & Strange Attractors: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 7-10)
|
Aug 11, 2024 |
|
#92- Fractal History and the Imagination: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 4-6)
|
Aug 10, 2024 |
|
#91- Chaos, Consciousness, and Creativity: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 1-3)
|
Aug 10, 2024 |
|
#90 - Robert Anton Wilson: Prometheus Rising
|
Aug 09, 2024 |
|
#89 - Joseph Campbell: Integrating the Myths of East and West
|
Aug 07, 2024 |
|
#88 - New Podcast Launch: Hemlock
|
Aug 01, 2024 |
|
#87 - Jeremy Rifkin: The Promise of the Third Industrial Revolution
|
Jul 30, 2024 |
|
#85 - Kurt Vonnegut: We Are All Dancing Animals
|
Jul 20, 2024 |
|
#84 - David Bentley Hart: The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Satchitananda)
|
Jul 17, 2024 |
|
#83 - Richard D. Wolff: Intro to Marxism (Crises and Openings) REUPLOAD
|
Jul 14, 2024 |
|
#82 - Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Full Audiobook)
|
Jul 12, 2024 |
|
#81 - The Question of (Everyone's) Guilt
|
Jul 12, 2024 |
|
#80 - John Dupré: Process Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, and Evolution
|
Jul 08, 2024 |
|
A Jazz-Soaked Philosophy [Complete] - Cornel West
|
Jul 04, 2024 |
|
Self Under Siege [Complete] - Rick Roderick
|
Jun 29, 2024 |
|
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
|
Jun 27, 2024 |
|
Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution - Wendy Brown
|
Jun 27, 2024 |
|
Justice for Animals - Martha Nussbaum
|
Jun 27, 2024 |
|
Herbert Marcuse Double Episode
|
Jun 26, 2024 |
|
Existentialism in Literature: Kafka, Dostoevsky, Hesse
|
Jun 25, 2024 |
|
The Crucifixion of Julian Assange - A Sermon by Chris Hedges
|
Jun 25, 2024 |
|
What is the Soterioactive?
|
Jun 25, 2024 |
|
American Anomie - Chris Hedges
|
Jun 23, 2024 |
|
Philosophy at the Graveyard Shift
|
Jun 22, 2024 |
|
The James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Debate
|
Jun 19, 2024 |
|
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy: Euminedes [Complete]
|
Jun 16, 2024 |
|
In Living Memory: Noam Chomsky
|
Jun 13, 2024 |
|
500 Subscriber Special - Existentialism is a Humanism, Read by the Host
|
Jun 08, 2024 |
|
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (4): Libation Bearers
|
Jun 04, 2024 |
|
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (3): Clytemnestra
|
Jun 03, 2024 |
|
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (2): Agamemnon
|
Jun 03, 2024 |
|
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (1): Why We Love Tragedy
|
Jun 02, 2024 |
|
Michael Sugrue - Plato's Republic: The Complete Guide [Reupload]
|
Jun 01, 2024 |
|
Chris Hedges - American Sadism
|
Jun 01, 2024 |
|
Judith Herman - Psychological Trauma, Childhood Influences, and Recovery
|
Jun 01, 2024 |
|
Jonathan Lear - Virtue Ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Psychotherapy
|
May 31, 2024 |
|
Martha Nussbaum - Upheavals of Thought: Neo-Stoicism and Emotional Cognition
|
May 31, 2024 |
|
Deborah Nelson - Ethics Without Empathy: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
|
May 31, 2024 |
|
Chris Hedges - Fascism in the Age of Trump
|
May 30, 2024 |
|
John Searle - Consciousness as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology [Reupload]
|
May 29, 2024 |
|
Michael Parenti - The Nature of Empire [Reupload]
|
May 28, 2024 |
|
Noam Chomksy - Thought Control In A Democratic Society
|
May 27, 2024 |
|
Masha Gessen - Putin and the Political Uses of Homophobia
|
May 26, 2024 |
|
Richard Wolff - Marxism v. Capitalism: The Game Is Rigged
|
May 26, 2024 |
|
Roger Scruton - The Line Between "Left" and "Right"
|
May 25, 2024 |
|
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
|
May 25, 2024 |
|
Naomi Klein - Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
|
May 25, 2024 |
|
Robert Oppenheimer - Eulogy for Niels Bohr [Reupload]
|
May 24, 2024 |
|
Cornel West - A Love Supreme (Part 6 of 6)
|
May 24, 2024 |
|
Cornel West - American Allegro Molto Vivace (Part 5 of 6)
|
May 22, 2024 |
|
Cornel West - History Adagio (Part 4 of 6)
|
May 21, 2024 |
|
Cornel West - Folly Presto (Part 3 of 6)
|
May 21, 2024 |
|
Cornel West - Metaphilosophic Andante (Part 2 of 6)
|
May 21, 2024 |
|
Cornel West - Philosophical Prelude (Part 1 of 6)
|
May 21, 2024 |
|
Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism
|
May 20, 2024 |
|
Chris Hedges - The Politics of Cultural Despair
|
May 20, 2024 |
|
Noam Chomsky - Education for Whom, and for What?
|
May 14, 2024 |
|
Aristotle's Philosophical Innovations - M. Nussabum and B. Magee
|
May 11, 2024 |
|
Iain McGilchrist - A Revolution in Thought
|
May 10, 2024 |
|
Sugrue - Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
|
Apr 27, 2024 |
|
Epicurus and Epicureans - Gregory Sadler
|
Apr 09, 2024 |
|
Schopenhauer "The World as Will and Idea" - M. Sugrue
|
Apr 09, 2024 |
|
Rick Roderick - Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity
|
Mar 19, 2024 |
|
Rick Roderick - Hegel and Modern Life
|
Mar 19, 2024 |
|
Sugrue on the Origin of Science
|
Mar 19, 2024 |
|
Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (3)
|
Feb 27, 2024 |
|
Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (2)
|
Feb 27, 2024 |
|
Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (1)
|
Feb 27, 2024 |
|
Robert C. Solomon on Heideggerian Authenticity
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
David Christian Introduction to Big History
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
Grant Hardy Introduction to Asian Thought
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
Jeffrey L. Kasser on Interpreting Einstein's Theories
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
Michael Sugrue on Greek Tragedy
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
Grant Hardy on Confucius
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
Michael Sugrue on Plato's Phaedrus
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (4 of 4)
|
Dec 23, 2023 |
|
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (3 of 4)
|
Dec 23, 2023 |
|
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (2 of 4)
|
Dec 23, 2023 |
|
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (1 of 4)
|
Dec 23, 2023 |