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By Robert Harrison

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Rollei
 May 28, 2019
One of the best literature and philosophy podcasts around.

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Episode Date
The Wilds of Artificial Intelligence with Bryan Cheong
Mar 13, 2023
The Idea of America
Mar 02, 2023
Three Poems for the Winter Solstice
Dec 21, 2022
On Democracy with Aishwary Kumar
Dec 16, 2022
Dark Matter, God, and the fate of the Universe with Maria Elena Monzani
Sep 23, 2022
On Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy with Andrew Mitchell
Aug 26, 2022
Robert Harrison on Depression
Jun 13, 2022
California Writers Part 2
Jun 12, 2022
Czeslaw Milosz: A Discussion with Cynthia Haven
May 27, 2022
To the Lighthouse with Miles Osgood
May 13, 2022
Letter writing: A Media Revolution with Chloe Summers Edmondson
Apr 29, 2022
The Epic of Gilgamesh with Sophus Helle
Apr 09, 2022
Thought and Perception with Markus Gabriel
Apr 01, 2022
In The Flow: A Brief Monologue
Mar 24, 2022
California Writers Part 1
Jan 18, 2022
Baroque Modernity with Joseph Cermatori
Dec 21, 2021
The Uses of Trauma with Alex Rex
Dec 03, 2021
Custodianship of the Earth with Thomas Woltz
Nov 18, 2021
Robert Harrison on Great Narrative Endings
Aug 23, 2021
Aqsa Ijaz on Rumi
Aug 12, 2021
What is Matter? with Bryan Cheong
Aug 05, 2021
Mark C. Taylor on Silence
Jul 29, 2021
What do Bridges do? With Thomas Harrison
Jul 22, 2021
Mark C. Taylor on Technology, Cybernetics, and Intervolution
Jul 15, 2021
Christy Wampole on Degenerative Realism
Jul 08, 2021
Robert Harrison contre Proust
Jul 07, 2021
On the word "And"
Dec 30, 2020
Robert Harrison on Separation
Dec 17, 2020
On Time, Death, and Cosmos
Jul 31, 2020
The Heart of the Sun
Jul 08, 2020
The Fatidic Power of Literature
Jun 27, 2020
Dead Voices
Jun 05, 2020
Happy Hour with Jethro Tull
May 18, 2020
Robert Harrison on mimetic desire, social media, and biotechnology
May 08, 2020
Christopher Watkin on Michel Serres
Apr 24, 2020
Happy Hour with Jimi Hendrix
Apr 17, 2020
Boccaccio's Human Comedy
Apr 10, 2020
Pandemic, Dread, and Boccaccio's Decameron
Apr 09, 2020
Robert Harrison on willows and thresholds
Jun 21, 2019
Pau Guinart on Salvador Dalí
Jun 11, 2019
Marisa Galvez on Crystals
Jun 04, 2019
Walking in Ice with Werner Herzog
May 28, 2019
A centennial tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti
May 21, 2019
The American Road— Part 2
May 15, 2019
The American Road— Part 1
May 15, 2019
On the railroad with Kai Carlson-Wee
May 07, 2019
Reflection on the color white
Apr 30, 2019
Cybersecurity with Donnie Hasseltine
Apr 23, 2019
Simone de Beauvoir with Jeremy Sabol
Apr 16, 2019
What is Love?
Apr 11, 2019
A tribute to summer
Jun 25, 2018
Alison McQueen on Political Realism and Apocalypse
Jun 16, 2018
Fred Turner on Cyberculture and The Democratic Surround
Jun 07, 2018
Quinn Slobodian on Neoliberalism
May 31, 2018
Francis Fukuyama on American Democracy and Accountability
May 24, 2018
Dan Edelstein on Human Rights
May 16, 2018
Priya Nelson on academic publishing
May 08, 2018
Alexander Key on Medieval Islamic thought
Apr 19, 2018
Andrew Hui on aphorism
Apr 10, 2018
Lena Herzog on dying languages
Feb 03, 2018
Richard Rorty on philosophy
Sep 22, 2017
Hiatus Announcement
Jul 21, 2017
Andrea Nightingale and Robert Harrison on Thoreau’s Walden
Jul 13, 2017
William Hurlbut on gene editing
Jul 08, 2017
Eric McLuhan on Marshall McLuhan
Jul 06, 2017
Great albums of 1967 with Jay Kadis and Thomas Harrison
Jun 21, 2017
Michaela Hulstyn on Drugs in Literature
Jun 07, 2017
Sam Ginn on the Singularity and Heidegger
May 30, 2017
Hans Sluga on Donald J. Trump
May 20, 2017
Peter Sloterdijk on Friedrich Nietzsche
Dec 15, 2016
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A Conversation with Inga Pierson
Jun 29, 2016
Philip Gourevitch on Rwanda
Jun 15, 2016
Arthur Rimbaud: A Conversation with Rebecca Pekron
Jun 08, 2016
A Conversation about Joseph Conrad’s The Shadow Line
Jun 01, 2016
Valerie Kinsey on Public Memory
May 25, 2016
Joseph Conrad’s Polish Roots: A Conversation with Monika Greenleaf
May 11, 2016
The Chinese Typewriter: A Conversation with Thomas Mullaney
May 04, 2016
Guy Debord, Situationism, and Psychogeography: A Conversation with Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Apr 27, 2016
Maria Stepanova on Putin’s Russia
Apr 20, 2016
Andrea Nightingale on J.A. Baker’s "The Peregrine"
Apr 13, 2016
Aishwary Kumar on Indian Politics, Pt. 2 — Gandhi
Apr 06, 2016
Aishwary Kumar on Indian Politics, Pt. 1 — Ambedkar
Apr 06, 2016
Werner Herzog on J.A. Baker’s "The Peregrine" and the Importance of Reading
Mar 23, 2016
Sepp Gumbrecht on Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau
Dec 16, 2015
Rebecca Pekron on Edgar Allan Poe
Dec 09, 2015
Eric Roberts on Computer Science
Dec 02, 2015
Marilyn Yalom on Female Friendship
Nov 18, 2015
Niklas Damiris on Money
Nov 11, 2015
A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson
Nov 04, 2015
Thomas Ryckman on Albert Einstein
Oct 28, 2015
Ruth Starkman on Virtue Ethics
Oct 21, 2015
Hans Sluga on Politics
Oct 14, 2015
Hans Sluga on Wittgenstein
Oct 07, 2015
A Monologue on Randolph Bourne
Sep 30, 2015
Hiatus Announcement
Apr 08, 2015
A Monologue on Lightness and Heaviness in Art
Jun 20, 2014
Edward Feigenbaum on Artificial Intelligence
Jun 11, 2014
Paul Rabinow on Foucault and "the contemporary"
Jun 04, 2014
Jessica Merrill on Russian Futurism
May 28, 2014
Monika Greenleaf on Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov
May 21, 2014
Karol Berger on the life and work of Richard Wagner, Pt. 2
May 14, 2014
Karol Berger on the life and work of Richard Wagner, Pt. 1
May 14, 2014
Mark McGurl on the Rise of Fiction-Writing Programs
May 07, 2014
David Lummus on Mythology
Apr 30, 2014
Richard Kearney on Anatheism and "God After God"
Apr 23, 2014
Grisha Freidin on Leo Tolstoy and Anna Karenina
Apr 16, 2014
Sarah Churchwell on The Great Gatsby
Apr 09, 2014
"How Old are We?" — A Monologue on Age
Mar 28, 2014
Andrei Linde on the Birth of the Universe (Re-Broadcast)
Aug 09, 2013
A Monologue on Dante and Prufrock (Re-Broadcast)
Aug 09, 2013
Karen Feldman on Walter Benjamin
Jul 03, 2013
Inga Pierson on Simone Weil
Jun 26, 2013
Michael Hoyer on David Foster Wallace
Jun 12, 2013
Marisa Galvez on Troubadour Poetry
Jun 05, 2013
A Monologue on The Doors (Re-Broadcast Dedicated to Ray Manzarek)
May 29, 2013
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger and Technology
May 22, 2013
Amir Eshel on Franz Kafka
May 15, 2013
A Monologue on Animal Rights
May 08, 2013
Bioethics and Biotechnology - Tamara Kayali
Apr 24, 2013
Photography and Reality - Lena Herzog
Apr 17, 2013
The Life and Thought of Charles Darwin - Paul Robinson
Apr 10, 2013
The Origins of Language - Martin Lewis and Asya Pereltsvaig
Apr 02, 2013
A Monologue on Margaret Fuller
Mar 26, 2013
The Voice - Chloe Veltman
Jun 27, 2012
Post-humanism - Ewa Domanska
Jun 06, 2012
A Brief History of Listening - Gabriella Safran
May 30, 2012
Petrarch and Petrarchism - Andrew Hui
May 23, 2012
Life, Literature, Lermontov - Sasha Borovik
May 16, 2012
Hermaphroditism - Leah DeVun
May 09, 2012
Psychological Anthropology - Tanya Luhrmann
May 02, 2012
John Rawls - Debra Satz
Apr 25, 2012
Michel Foucault - Hans Sluga
Apr 18, 2012
Extinction - Ursula Heise
Apr 12, 2012
Nietzsche and Wagner - Stephen Hinton
Nov 30, 2011
Medicine and the Human Condition - Larry Zaroff
Nov 23, 2011
Homer and Homeric Epics - Richard Martin
Nov 16, 2011
The Discipline of Geography - Martin Lewis
Nov 09, 2011
The Life and Poetry of John Keats - Denise Gigante
Nov 02, 2011
The Ancient Roman Family - Richard Saller
Oct 26, 2011
Hegel and His Heirs - Adrian Daub
Oct 19, 2011
The Rosetta Stone - Patrick Hunt
Oct 12, 2011
Phenomenology - Thomas Sheehan
Oct 05, 2011
Hiatus Announcement
Apr 25, 2011
Samuel Beckett - Robert Harrison
Apr 12, 2011
The Human Brain - Stuart Edelstein
Apr 05, 2011
Psychedelic Rock - Jay Kadis
Mar 29, 2011
Italian Cinema - Sarah Carey
Mar 22, 2011
Greek Tragedy - Rush Rehm
Mar 15, 2011
Aristotle's Poetics - Blair Hoxby
Mar 08, 2011
Sonia Korn Grimani and her memoir of the Holocaust
Feb 27, 2011
Haitian writer Lyonel Trouillot
Feb 27, 2011
The Nouveau Roman - Christy Wampole
Feb 22, 2011
Beauty - Alexander Nehamas (part 2)
Feb 15, 2011
Beauty - Alexander Nehamas (part 1)
Feb 15, 2011
The Uses of Philosophy - John Perry and Kenneth Taylor
Feb 13, 2011
Romantic Symbol - Nicholas Halmi
Feb 08, 2011
Roberto Bolaño - Héctor Hoyos
Feb 01, 2011
Commedia dell'Arte - Mace Perlman
Jan 25, 2011
Classicism in America - Caroline Winterer
Jan 18, 2011
Moby Dick - Andrea Nightingale
Jan 11, 2011
The Doors - Robert Harrison
Jun 22, 2010
Georges Bataille - Laura Wittman
May 25, 2010
Heidegger's Being and Time - Thomas Sheehan
May 18, 2010
Pink Floyd - Thomas Harrison
May 11, 2010
Glass Wave - Rush Rehm
May 04, 2010
Alexander the Great - Vincent Barletta
Apr 27, 2010
Uses of Literature - Joshua Landy
Apr 20, 2010
Athanasius Kircher - Paula Findlen
Apr 12, 2010
Karl Marx - Mark Mancall
Apr 05, 2010
Italian Epic Poetry - Giuseppe Mazzotta
Mar 02, 2010
Digital Music - Jay Kadis
Feb 22, 2010
Welsh Literature - Gwyneth Lewis (Part II)
Feb 16, 2010
Welsh Literature - Gwyneth Lewis (Part I)
Feb 16, 2010
American Literature - Tobias Wolff
Feb 08, 2010
Shakespeare - Stephen Orgel
Jan 19, 2010
A Monologue on Wallace Stevens
Dec 09, 2009
A Monologue on Machiavelli
Dec 07, 2009
Plato - Andrea Nightingale
Nov 25, 2009
Borges - Hans Gumbrecht
Nov 23, 2009
Blues - Byrd Hale - Part II
Oct 20, 2009
Blues - Byrd Hale - Part I
Oct 20, 2009
Tennis - Dick Gould
Oct 05, 2009
Unabomber - Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Sep 28, 2009
The Jimi Hendrix Solo Show
Jun 20, 2009
Byzantine Culture Pt 2 - Panagiotis Agapitos
Jun 02, 2009
Byzantine Culture Pt 1 - Panagiotis Agapitos
Jun 02, 2009
Emily Dickinson - Katie Peterson
Jun 02, 2009
Friedrich Nietzsche - Andrew Mitchell
May 26, 2009
Re-enchantment of the World - Michael Saler
May 19, 2009
Nuance and Brazilian Culture - Marília Librandi Rocha
May 12, 2009
Metaphysics of Misogyny - Adrian Daub
May 05, 2009
Romanticism and Organic Form - Denise Gigante
Apr 28, 2009
Beethoven Pt 2 - Stephen Hinton
Apr 21, 2009
Beethoven Pt 1 - Stephen Hinton
Apr 21, 2009
The Existentialism of Sartre - Lanier Anderson
Apr 14, 2009
Heart of Darkness - Robert Harrison
Dec 15, 2008
Réflexions sur l'Internet - Michel Serres
Dec 10, 2008
The Jesuit Order - Matt Farley
Dec 02, 2008
Human Rights - Helen Stacy
Nov 25, 2008
WWII and the Blitz - Peter Stansky
Nov 18, 2008
The Future of the Internet - Vinton Cerf
Nov 11, 2008
Language and Thought - Lera Boroditsky
Nov 04, 2008
The Medical Vocation - Dr. Abraham Verghese
Oct 28, 2008
The Heart - Heather Webb and Connie Solari
Oct 21, 2008
Persian literature - Dick Davis
Oct 14, 2008
Philosophy of Moods - Sepp Gumbrecht
Oct 07, 2008
W.H. Auden - Nicholas Jenkins
Sep 30, 2008
Intellectual History - Paul Robinson
Sep 24, 2008
Erwin Schrödinger - Robert Harrison
Apr 08, 2008
Boccaccio - Robert Harrison
Apr 01, 2008
W.B. Yeats - Marjorie Perloff
Mar 25, 2008
Robert Service - Giovanni Tempesta
Mar 18, 2008
Jane Austen - Blakey Vermeule
Mar 11, 2008
The Poetry of AR Ammons - Laura Wittman
Feb 26, 2008
Vocation of the Humanities - Hayden White
Feb 19, 2008
History of Psychiatry - Dr. Stewart Agras
Feb 12, 2008
Origins of Agriculture Pt 2 - Michael Shanks
Feb 05, 2008
Origins of Agriculture Pt 1 - Michael Shanks
Feb 05, 2008
Pamuk and Modern Turkey - Aron Rodrigue
Jan 29, 2008
Novelist Orhan Pamuk
Jan 23, 2008
Religion and Violence - Philippe Buc
Jan 16, 2008
Dante and Prufrock - A Coda
Jun 19, 2007
End of the Year Wrap-up
Jun 19, 2007
Poetry and Thinking - A conversation with Andrew Mitchell
Jun 12, 2007
Kurt Weill Pt 2 - A conversation with Stephen Hinton
Jun 05, 2007
Kurt Weill Pt 1 - A conversation with Stephen Hinton
Jun 05, 2007
Freud & Psychoanalysis Pt 2 - A conversation with Charitini Douvaldzi
May 29, 2007
Freud & Psychoanalysis Pt 1 - A conversation with Charitini Douvaldzi
May 29, 2007
The Enlightenment - A conversation with Pierre Saint-Amand
Jan 01, 1970
Hannah Arendt pt. 2 - A conversation with Karen Feldman
Jan 01, 1970
Hannah Arendt pt. 1 - A conversation with Karen Feldman
Jan 01, 1970
Tom Thomson in Purgatory - A conversation with Troy Jollimore
Jan 01, 1970
Ancient Athenian Democracy - A conversation with Josiah Ober
Jan 01, 1970
Higher Education - A conversation with John Hennessy
Jan 01, 1970
Dante Pt. 3 - A Conversation with Rachel Jacoff
Jan 01, 1970
Dante Pt. 2 - A Conversation with Rachel Jacoff
Jan 01, 1970
Dante Pt. 1 - A Conversation with Rachel Jacoff
Jan 01, 1970
The Earthly Paradise - An Epilogue
Jan 01, 1970
Concluding Opinions
Jan 01, 1970
Henry James - A conversation with Colm Toibin
Jan 01, 1970
American Corporations - A conversation with Drew Gibson
Jan 01, 1970
The Virgin Mary - A conversation with Bissera Pentcheva
Jan 01, 1970
Cancer - Part 2 of a conversation with Dr. Michael Hendrickson
Jan 01, 1970
Life - Part 1 of a conversation with Dr. Michael Hendrickson
Jan 01, 1970
The Avantgarde - A conversation with Marjorie Perloff
Jan 01, 1970
The US Constitution - A conversation with Kathleen Sullivan
Jan 01, 1970
Anti-Americanism - A conversation with Russell Berman
Jan 01, 1970
The Resurrection pt 2 - A conversation with Tom Sheehan
Jan 01, 1970
The Resurrection pt 1 - A conversation with Tom Sheehan
Jan 01, 1970
Americans in Paris - A conversation with Cécile Alduy
Jan 01, 1970
The History of the Book - A conversation with Seth Lerer
Jan 01, 1970
Love Poetry - A conversation with Lisa Dornell
Jan 01, 1970
1910 - A conversation with Thomas Harrison
Jan 01, 1970
American Cemeteries - A conversation with Marilyn Yalom
Jan 01, 1970
The Fate of the Earth - A conversation with Paul Ehrlich
Jan 01, 1970
Isaac Babel - A conversation with Gregory Freidin
Jan 01, 1970
The Man Without Qualities - A conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Jan 01, 1970
The Historical Jesus - A conversation with Thomas Sheehan
Jan 01, 1970
Henry David Thoreau - A conversation with Kathryn Todd
Jan 01, 1970
Cosmology - A conversation with Andrei Linde
Jan 01, 1970
Shirley Hazzard - A conversation
Jan 01, 1970
Michel Serres - A conversation (in French)
Jan 01, 1970
Vladamir Nabokov - A conversation with Monika Greenleaf
Jan 01, 1970
Albert Camus - A conversation with Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Jan 01, 1970
Crowds - A conversation with Jeffrey Schnapp
Jan 01, 1970
Richard Rorty - A conversation
Jan 01, 1970
Ezra Pound - A conversation with Marjorie Perloff
Jan 01, 1970
Epicureanism - A conversation with Andrea Nightingale
Jan 01, 1970
Marcel Proust - A conversation with Joshua Landy
Jan 01, 1970
Virgil - A conversation with Susanna Braund
Jan 01, 1970
Martin Heidegger - A conversation with Andrew Mitchell
Jan 01, 1970
Francophonie - A conversation with Elisabeth Boyi
Jan 01, 1970
The Scapegoat - A conversation with René Girard
Jan 01, 1970
The Enlightenment - A conversation with Dan Edelstein
Jan 01, 1970
Athletic Beauty - A conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Jan 01, 1970
Mimetic Desire - A conversation with René Girard
Jan 01, 1970
Michel Tournier - A conversation with Laura Wittman
Jan 01, 1970