Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

By Robert Harrison

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 Mar 1, 2019


 Jan 14, 2019

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The narcotic of intelligent conversation

Episode Date
The Spirit of Rivers
Apr 18, 2024
Crime in America with Scott Thomas Anderson
Mar 28, 2024
Mindfulness in a Distracted World with Nate Klemp
Feb 15, 2024
The Artificiality of Natural Intelligence with David Bates
Feb 01, 2024
Dante’s Characters: Part Four, Brunetto Latini
Jan 18, 2024
Dante’s Characters: Part Three, Guido da Montefeltro
Jan 04, 2024
Dante’s Characters: Part Two, Ulysses
Dec 20, 2023
Dante’s Characters: Part One, Francesca da Rimini
Dec 14, 2023
Garry Nolan on UFOs
Dec 08, 2023
Women and Madness
Oct 19, 2023
Vico and Joyce
Oct 12, 2023
Robert Harrison on Giambattista Vico
Sep 14, 2023
On Gardenism with William Rosenzweig
Aug 31, 2023
Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American
Aug 24, 2023
On World, Love, and Gloom: An Open Conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Aug 04, 2023
Amor Mundi: Robert Harrison on World Love
Jul 28, 2023
Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Ana Ilievska
Apr 12, 2023
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 30, 2020
The Heart of the Sun
Jul 08, 2020
The Fatidic Power of Literature
Jun 26, 2020
Dead Voices
Jun 05, 2020
Happy Hour with Jethro Tull
May 18, 2020
Robert Harrison on mimetic desire, social media, and biotechnology
May 07, 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 08, 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 27, 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
Reflections 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 10, 2019
A tribute to summer
Jun 25, 2018
Alison McQueen on Political Realism and Apocalypse
Jun 15, 2018
Fred Turner on Cyberculture and The Democratic Surround
Jun 07, 2018
Quinn Slobodian on Neoliberalism
May 30, 2018
Francis Fukuyama on American Democracy and Accountability
May 23, 2018
Dan Edelstein on Human Rights
May 16, 2018
Priya Nelson on academic publishing
May 08, 2018
Alexander Key on Medieval Islamic thought
Apr 18, 2018
Andrew Hui on aphorism
Apr 09, 2018
Lena Herzog on dying languages
Feb 02, 2018
Richard Rorty on the future of philosophy
Sep 22, 2017
Hiatus Announcement
Jul 20, 2017
Is Henry David Thoreau a philosopher, too? Andrea Nightingale votes yes.
Jul 12, 2017
William Hurlbut on gene editing
Jul 06, 2017
Eric McLuhan on Marshall McLuhan
Jul 05, 2017
Great albums of 1967 with Jay Kadis and Thomas Harrison
Jun 20, 2017
Michaela Hulstyn on Drugs in Literature
Jun 07, 2017
Sam Ginn on the Singularity
May 27, 2017
Hans Sluga on Trump's “Empire of Disorientation”
May 20, 2017
“I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite” : Peter Sloterdijk on Nietzsche
Dec 15, 2016
“Mary Shelley is a dissenting voice”: Inga Pierson on Frankenstein and the Age of Science
Jun 29, 2016
“It has happened. So it can happen again.” Philip Gourevitch on genocide
Jun 15, 2016
Rebecca Pekron on Arthur Rimbaud
Jun 08, 2016
A conversation about Joseph Conrad's The Shadow Line with Monika Greenleaf and Rush Rehm
Jun 01, 2016
Valerie Kinsey on Public Memory
May 25, 2016
Alice Kaplan on Albert Camus and “The Stranger”
May 18, 2016
Monika Greenleaf on Joseph Conrad's Polish Roots
May 11, 2016
Thomas Mullaney on the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
May 04, 2016
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on Guy Debord, Situationism, and Psychogeography
Apr 27, 2016
Poet Maria Stepanova on Memory and Russia’s “Schizoid Present”
Apr 20, 2016
Andrea Nightingale on J.A. Baker's “The Peregrine”
Apr 13, 2016
Aishwary Kumar on Gandhi and Ambedkar – Part 2
Apr 06, 2016
Aishwary Kumar on Gandhi and Ambedkar- Part 1
Apr 06, 2016
Werner Herzog on “The Peregrine” and the Importance of Reading
Mar 22, 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 10, 2015
Marilynne Robinson and the Perception of the Ordinary
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 the life and work of Wittgenstein
Oct 07, 2015
Robert Harrison and Truman Chen on Randolph Bourne
Sep 30, 2015
Robert Harrison 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 Richard Wagner- Part 2
May 14, 2014
Karol Berger on Richard Wagner- Part 1
May 14, 2014
Mark McGurl on Fiction-Writing Programs
May 07, 2014
David Lummus on Mythology
Apr 30, 2014
Richard Kearney on anatheism
Apr 23, 2014
Grisha Freidin on Leo Tolstoy
Apr 16, 2014
Sarah Churchwell on The Great Gatsby
Apr 09, 2014
“How Old are We?” — A Monologue
Mar 27, 2014
Dante and J. Alfred Prufrock
Dec 30, 2013
Andrei Linde on the Universe
Aug 09, 2013
A Monologue on Dante & Prufrock
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 (Dedicated to Ray Manzarek)
May 29, 2013
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger & Technology
May 22, 2013
Amir Eshel on Franz Kafka
May 15, 2013
Robert Harrison on animal rights
May 08, 2013
Tamara Kayali on Bioethics
Apr 24, 2013
“It stuns me every time”: Lena Herzog on the Uncanny Powers of Photography
Apr 17, 2013
Paul Robinson on Charles Darwin
Apr 10, 2013
Martin Lewis and Asya Pereltsvaig on the Origins of Language
Apr 01, 2013
Robert Harrison on Margaret Fuller
Mar 26, 2013
Chloe Veltman on the Human Voice
Jun 27, 2012
Ewa Domanska on Post-humanism
Jun 06, 2012
Gabriella Safran on Listening
May 30, 2012
Andrew Hui on Petrarch and Petrarchism
May 23, 2012
EO listener Sasha Borovik on Life, Literature, and Lermontov
May 16, 2012
Leah DeVun on Hermaphroditism
May 09, 2012
Tanya Luhrmann on Magic, God, and the Supernatural
May 02, 2012
Debra Satz on John Rawls
Apr 25, 2012
Hans Sluga on Michel Foucault
Apr 18, 2012
Ursula Heise on Extinction
Apr 11, 2012
Stephen Hinton on Nietzsche and Wagner
Nov 30, 2011
Dr. Larry Zaroff on Medicine and the Humanity
Nov 23, 2011
Richard Martin on Homeric Epics
Nov 16, 2011
Georges Lavaudant on a Life in Theater
Nov 16, 2011
Martin Lewis on Geography
Nov 09, 2011
Denise Gigante on John Keats
Nov 02, 2011
Richard Saller on the Ancient Rome
Oct 25, 2011
Adrian Daub on Hegel
Oct 19, 2011
Patrick Hunt on the Rosetta Stone
Oct 12, 2011
Thomas Sheehan on Phenomenology
Oct 05, 2011
Sonia Korn-Grimani on her memoir of the Holocaust
Apr 25, 2011
Robert Harrison on Samuel Beckett
Apr 12, 2011
Stuart Edelstein on the Human Brain
Apr 05, 2011
Jay Kadis on Psychedelic Rock
Mar 29, 2011
Sarah Carey on Italian Cinema
Mar 22, 2011
Rush Rehm on Greek Tragedy
Mar 15, 2011
Blair Hoxby on Aristotle’s Poetics
Mar 08, 2011
Lyonel Trouillot on Haiti and Haitian literature
Mar 01, 2011
Christy Wampole on the Nouveau Roman
Feb 22, 2011
Alexander Nehamas on Beauty
Feb 15, 2011
Nicholas Halmi on the Romantic symbol
Feb 08, 2011
Héctor Hoyos on Roberto Bolaño
Feb 01, 2011
Mace Perlman on the Commedia dell'Arte
Jan 25, 2011
Caroline Winterer on Classicism in America
Jan 18, 2011
Andrea Nightingale on Moby Dick
Jan 11, 2011
The Ethos of “Cool”: Robert Harrison on Jim Morrison and The Doors
Jun 23, 2010
Laura Wittman on Georges Bataille
May 25, 2010
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger’s Being and Time
May 18, 2010
Thomas Harrison on Pink Floyd
May 11, 2010
Rush Rehm on Glass Wave, Robert Harrison's cerebral rock band
May 04, 2010
Joshua Landy on the Uses of Literature
Apr 20, 2010
Paula Findlen on Athanasius Kircher
Apr 13, 2010
Mark Mancall on Karl Marx
Apr 06, 2010
Vincent Barletta on Alexander the Great
Apr 05, 2010
Giuseppe Mazzotta on Italian Epic Poetry
Mar 02, 2010
Jay Kadis on Digital Music
Feb 23, 2010
Gwyneth Lewis on Welsh literature- Part 1
Feb 16, 2010
Gwyneth Lewis on Welsh literature- Part 2
Feb 16, 2010
Tobias Wolff on American fiction
Feb 09, 2010
Steven Orgel on Shakespeare’s King Lear
Jan 19, 2010
A Monologue on Wallace Stevens
Dec 09, 2009
A Monologue on Machiavelli
Dec 07, 2009
Andrea Nightingale on Plato
Nov 25, 2009
Hans Gumbrecht on Borges
Nov 23, 2009
Byrd Hale on Blues – Part 2
Oct 19, 2009
Byrd Hale on Blues – Part 1
Oct 19, 2009
Dick Gould on Tennis
Oct 06, 2009
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on the Unabomber
Sep 29, 2009
The Jimi Hendrix Solo Show
Jun 20, 2009
Katie Peterson on Emily Dickinson
Jun 02, 2009
Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium – Part 2
Jun 02, 2009
Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium- Part 1
Jun 01, 2009
Andrew Mitchell on Friedrich Nietzsche
May 26, 2009
Josh Landy with Michael Saler on the Re-enchantment of the World
May 19, 2009
Marília Librandi Rocha on Nuance and Brazil
May 12, 2009
Adrian Daub on the Metaphysics of Misogyny
May 05, 2009
Denise Gigante on Romanticism and Organic Form
Apr 28, 2009
Stephen Hinton on Beethoven- Part 1
Apr 21, 2009
Stephen Hinton on Beethoven – Part 2
Apr 21, 2009
Robert Harrison on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Dec 15, 2008
Philosopher Michel Serres – Réflexions sur l'Internet (in French)
Dec 09, 2008
Matt Farley on the Jesuit Order
Dec 02, 2008
Helen Stacy on Human Rights
Nov 25, 2008
Peter Stansky on WWII and the Blitz
Nov 18, 2008
Vinton Cerf of Google on the future of the internet
Nov 11, 2008
Josh Landy with Lera Boroditsky on language and thought
Nov 04, 2008
Dr. Abraham Verghese on medicine and his literary career
Oct 28, 2008
Heather Webb and Connie Solari on the heart
Oct 21, 2008
Dick Davis on Persian Literature
Oct 14, 2008
Sepp Gumbrecht on the philosophy of moods
Oct 07, 2008
Nicholas Jenkins on W.H. Auden
Sep 30, 2008
Paul Robinson on Intellectual History
Sep 24, 2008
Lanier Anderson on Sartre's Existentialism
Apr 14, 2008
Robert Harrison on Erwin Schrödinger
Apr 10, 2008
Robert Harrison on Giovanni Boccaccio
Apr 01, 2008
Giovanni Tempesta on the Poetry of Robert Service
Mar 18, 2008
Marjorie Perloff on Irish Poet W.B. Yeats
Mar 18, 2008
Blakey Vermeule on Jane Austen
Mar 11, 2008
Laura Wittman on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons
Feb 26, 2008
Hayden White on the Vocation of the Humanities
Feb 19, 2008
Dr. Stewart Agras on the History of Psychiatry
Feb 12, 2008
Archaeologist Michael Shanks on the Origins of Agriculture
Jan 29, 2008
Aron Rodrigue on the Ottoman Empire
Jan 25, 2008
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk
Jan 22, 2008
Historian Philippe Buc on Religion and Violence
Jan 15, 2008
Robert Harrison on Dante and Prufrock
Jun 19, 2007
Robert Harrison on vice
Jun 19, 2007
Andrew Mitchell on Poetry and Thinking in Heidegger
Jun 12, 2007
Stephen Hinton on Kurt Weill- Part 2
Jun 05, 2007
Stephen Hinton on Kurt Weill- Part 1
Jun 05, 2007
Charitini Douvaldzi on Freud- Part 2
May 29, 2007
Charitini Douvaldzi on Freud- Part 1
May 29, 2007
Pierre Saint-Amand on the French Enlightenment
May 22, 2007
Karen Feldman on Hannah Arendt – Part 1
May 15, 2007
Karen Feldman on Hannah Arendt- Part 2
May 15, 2007
Troy Jollimore on Tom Thomson in Purgatory
May 08, 2007
Josh Ober on Ancient Athenian Democracy
May 01, 2007
Stanford President John Hennessy on Stanford University
Apr 24, 2007
The Only Way Up is Down: Rachel Jacoff on Dante's Inferno
Apr 10, 2007
Rachel Jacoff on Dante's Divine Comedy – Part 3
Apr 10, 2007
Rachel Jacoff: Hell Is Other People in Dante's Inferno
Apr 10, 2007
Robert Harrison a monologue on Gardens
Jun 13, 2006
Robert Harrison a monologue on Birds
Jun 13, 2006
Irish Novelist Colm Toibin on Henry James
Jun 06, 2006
Drew Gibson on Corporations
May 30, 2006
Ken Berman on Jazz
May 23, 2006
Bissera Pentcheva on the Virgin Mary
May 23, 2006
Dr. Michael Hendrickson on “What is cancer?”
May 16, 2006
Dr. Michael Hendrickson on “What is Life?”
May 16, 2006
Marjorie Perloff on the European Avantgarde
May 09, 2006
Kathleen Sullivan on the American Constitution
May 02, 2006
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 2
Apr 18, 2006
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 1
Apr 18, 2006
Cécile Alduy on American writers in Paris
Apr 11, 2006
Seth Lerer on the history of the book
Apr 04, 2006
Lisa “Decca” Dornell on Love Poetry
Mar 14, 2006
Thomas Harrison on expressionism in the year 1910
Mar 07, 2006
Marilyn Yalom on the cemeteries of America
Feb 28, 2006
Paul Ehrlich on the Fate of the Earth
Feb 21, 2006
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on The Man Without Qualities
Feb 07, 2006
Thomas Sheehan on the historical Jesus
Jan 31, 2006
Kathryn Todd on Henry David Thoreau
Jan 24, 2006
Gregory Freidin on Isaac Babel
Jan 17, 2006
Novelist Shirley Hazzard
Jan 10, 2006
Monika Greeleaf on Nabokov
Dec 13, 2005
French Philosopher Michel Serres (in French)
Dec 09, 2005
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on Albert Camus
Dec 06, 2005
Jeffrey Schnapp on the Phenomenon of Crowds
Nov 29, 2005
Richard Rorty on the Future of Philosophy
Nov 22, 2005
Marjorie Perloff on Ezra Pound
Nov 15, 2005
Andrea Nightingale on Epicurus and Epicureanism
Nov 08, 2005
Joshua Landy on Marcel Proust
Nov 01, 2005
Susanna Braund on Virgil's Aeneid
Oct 25, 2005
Andrew Mitchell on Martin Heidegger
Oct 18, 2005
Elisabeth Boyi on African and Caribbean Francophone Writers
Oct 11, 2005
René Girard on ritual sacrifice and the scapegoat
Oct 04, 2005
Dan Edelstein on the Enlightenment
Sep 28, 2005
René Girard: Why We Want What We Want
Sep 17, 2005
Hans Gumbrecht on American football
Sep 17, 2005
Laura Wittman on Michel Tournier's Friday
Sep 14, 2005