History of Philosophy Audio Archive
Episodes
Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We did it! 100 reviews on Spotify!To celebrate, we are kicking off an open-source audiobook project celebrating Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, ...
Hemlock #11 - Call Your Friends (or, Unhinged Volume II)
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We must needs densify the social fabric, compadres...https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon
#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
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools peopl...
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
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon!https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreonBuy Paul Reitter and Paul North's Scholarly Edition of Marx's Capital Volume 1:https://...
#155 - Speaking Peace: Marshall Rosenberg on Conflict Resolution, Giraffe and Jackal Language, Nonviolent Communication, Expressing Needs and Desires, and Articulating a More Peaceful World
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon!https://Patreon.com/HemlockPatreonLeave a review! Once we get to 100 I'll record and release (completely gratis) an outstanding p...
#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
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favorite things ever recorded - if you haven't already, prepare for a wild, wild, ride. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/Hemloc...
#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
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Change’ is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe...
Hemlock #9 - An Unhinged Rant About What Our Government Likes to Call "Detention Centers"
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Update/Correction: I misstated the executive order number (it's 9066 not 9006) and stated that Korematsu v. United States still technically had le...
#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
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Worlds on worlds are rolling ever from creation to decay - Like the bubbles on a riv...
#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
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, and diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they ...
#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
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Michael's Book on Amazon (Untracked Link): https://www.amazon.com/Land-Power-Doesnt-Determines-Societies/dp/1541604814/ Goodreads: https://www...
#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
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, ...
#147 - Dzogchen: James Low on Tibetan Buddhism, the Uncontaminated Mind, Developing Clarity and Insight, Overcoming Ego, and Riding the Wave that Never Breaks
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon -//- James Low's YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@jameslow Video Source: https://youtu....
#146 - Moby Dick: Bert Dreyfus on the White Whale, the Origins of American Literature, Ahab's Madness, and Existentialist Themes in the 19th Century
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon This is an eight lecture series, delivered in 2010 at UC Berkeley by the philosophy professor...
Letter to the Shareholders 2025
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reach out and share your thoughts! [email protected] Congratulations on a great 2024 - a couple of channel-exclusive messages and announcemen...
#145 - Wittgenstein: Norman Malcom on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy, the Vienna Circle, Bertrand Russell, and Language Games
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent” -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Trac...
#144 - The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: Rick Roderick on Postmodernism, the Eternal Recurrence, Ressentiment, Master & Slave Morality, the Übermensch, and the Last Man
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon "The philosopher as we understand him, we free spirits - as the man of the most comprehensive...
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
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Astika's book while you still can! https://a.co/d/bggZEtW Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “He no longer cared to live i...
#143 - The End of Empire: Chris Hedges on Gaza Genocide, US Complicity, and the Fate of Conquerors
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/fO0OkdUuvDk
#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"
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon -//- Professor Thomas C. Brickhouse:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Brickhouse
#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
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’...
#140 - Albert Camus: Robert C. Solomon on the Absurd Hero, The Stranger, The Plague, Existentialism in Literature, and the Benign Indifference of the Universe
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thoug...
#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
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon -//- Original Sugrue Video: https://youtu.be/mU7hdGKOGyk Original Skinner Video: https://yout...
#138 - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Michael Sugrue on the Stoic Ideal, Absolute Power, Resistance to Temptation, and Who Writes a Book to Themself?
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Original Video: https://youtu.be/Auuk1y4DRgk Enjoy.
#137 - Censorship: Ada Palmer on the Spanish Inquisition, Galileo and Descartes, the Renaissance Book Economy, Government Surveillance, and Self-Censorship
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon -//- Original Video: https://youtu.be/uMMJb3AxA0s Original Channel (UChicago Divinity School)...
#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
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuation of 135a
#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
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day ...
#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
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(00:00:00): Intro (00:00:52): Milton and Power (00:45:31): The Infant Cry of God (01:33:38): Credible Employment (02:24:03): Poetry and Virginity (03:...
#133 - The Philosophy of John Dewey: Progressive Education, Occupational Psychosis, American Pragmatism, and Process Philosophy
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up...
#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
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, in...
The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin in 1940
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences" -Xinxin Ming, Tang Dynasty Chan Buddhist Poem Check out Astika's Website: https:...
#131 - Philosophy in Our Age of Imperial Decline: Cornel West on Blues and Jazz, Radical Democracy, and the Consequences of Imperial Hubris
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The [music of the] Blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors...
#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]
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relati...
#129 - What Good are the Humanities? Talbot Brewer
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Philosophy could be characterized with only a bit of irony as what is left if you begin with ...
#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
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon "Human civilization is the result of ten million years of striving after the unspeakable" -Te...
#127 - Obscene Totalitarians: Slavoj Zizek on the Bhagavad Gita, Ideological Guilt, the Third Reich, and Stalin's Perverse Legacy
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What...
#126 - Gaia: James Lovelock on Planetary Systems, the Challenge of Climate Change, and the Role of Human Beings in Ecological Stewardship
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth]...
#125 - War in the Nazi Imagination: Richard J. Evans on Hitler's Goals in Poland, British Diplomacy, Winston Churchill, and the Final Solution
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people ...
#124 - The Wages of Rebellion: Chris Hedges on the Death of Liberalism, the Decline of Moral Institutions, and the Moral Imperative of Revolt
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not r...
#123 - The Genocide in Gaza: Chris Hedges
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
End the killing now. Description from Media Sanctuary: Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, spent seven years cov...
#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
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“What is required is an attentive response to something real and other than ourselves, of which we have only inklings at first, but which comes more...
#121 - Philosophy and Human Values: Rick Roderick on Socrates, Epictetus, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Challenge of Postmodernism [REUPLOAD]
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By popular demand, Rick Roderick is back on the History of Philosophy Audio Archive. This is his complete series, Philosophy and Human Values. Come jo...
#119 - Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff on Behavioral Futures Markets, Collusion between Big Tech and Intelligence, the Weaponization and Commodification of "Metadata"
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Industrial capitalism transformed nature’s raw materials into commodities, and surveill...
#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]
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Recorded in March 1989. “The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to...
#116 - The Meaning of Existentialism: Hubert Dreyfus on Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Artificial Intelligence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Human Nature
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had wa...
#115 - Why Everyone Should Read Dante: Professor Bill Cook
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The soul, which is created quick to love, responds to everything that pleases, just as soon as beauty wakens it to act. -Dante, Purgatorio, Canto 18 C...
Hemlock #6 - Interregnum and the Angel of History
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." -Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1929. Come join my P...
#114 - Isaiah Berlin's Lectures on Romanticism: Beethoven, Kant, Byron, Percy Shelley, and Blake [REUPLOAD #2]
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Credit for the copy below as well as the source videos goes to the great YouTube channel Phil...
Hemlock #5 - Greek Tragedy and the Net of Aeschylus
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a personal post, I hope you enjoy. "Our joy today is equal to the pain that made it" -Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Come to my Patreon for m...
#113 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State: Chris Hedges Interviews Princeton Professor Sheldon Wolin
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this episode, Chris Hedges interview Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin, explorin...
#111 - Guest Interview with Environmental Philosopher Guillermo Zapata: Reading Indigenous Philosophers on Confronting the Sixth Mass Extinction, Building Community, and Overcoming Corporate Power
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this conversation with environmental ethicist Guillermo Zapata we discuss the role of indi...
#109 - Love and the Search for God: Thomas Merton on Rilke, Monastic versus Lay Living, and Finding God
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more y...
#108 - The Philosophy of Simone Weil: Sister Ann Astell on Loving Attention, Interfaith Dialogue, Vatican 2, and Christian Mysticism
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon When we are the victims of illusion, we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality. It is...
#107 - A Medicine More Fit for Humanity: Iain McGilchrist on Anti-Materialism, the Divided Brain, and How Art and Literature Can Improve Medicine
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon According to Max Planck, ‘Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any ...
#106 (LABOR DAY SPECIAL) - Why I Am Still A Communist: Slavoj Zizek on Stalin's Terror, the Consequences of Neoliberalism, and the Refugee Crisis
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still ...
#105 - The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza: J. Thomas Cook on Pantheism, the Geometric Method, and Life as a Jewish Heretic
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view...
#104 - The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard: George Connell on Infinite Resignation, the Knight of Faith, and the Path to the Spiritual Life
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. -Soren Kierkegaard...
#103 - The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Kenneth L. Schmitz on Scholasticism, the Proof of God's Existence, and the Beatific Vision
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Thomas Aquinas is the smartest man who ever lived - with the sole exception of Jesus Christ. ...
#102 - The Philosophy of David Hume: Nicholas Capaldi on the Fact/Value Distinction, the Problem of Induction, and Natural Religion
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon David Hume (1711-1776) has been called "the greatest philosophical mind in the English l...
#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]
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We did it - 100 episodes! Celebrate with 12 hours of Plato! My Patreon page: https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:51) - The D...
#99 - Power and Ideology at the New School: Noam Chomsky on Internationalism, Media Bias, and US Global Aggression
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon World-renowned professor of linguistics and lifelong political dissident Noam Chomsky address...
#98 - Nonviolent Communication: Marshall Rosenberg on Resolving Conflict, Negotiating Compassionately, and Creating Peace
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In order to do philosophy at all we have to find ways to discuss difficult topics in a way th...
#97 - The Sword & the Dollar, The US Role in Central America: Michael Parenti on Banana Republics, Anti-Hispanic Racism, and Liberation Theology
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This episode contains a graphic description of torture. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this 1993 talk Michael Paren...
#96 - Hegel, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and the Meaning of History: Michael Sugrue
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:52) Phenomenology of Spirit (00:45:36) Hegel & the Meaning of His...
#94 - David Graeber: Debt, a Five-Thousand Year History
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! It's free! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon The late David Graeber was an anthropologist who often ventured into uncharted...
#93- Chaotic Emergence & Strange Attractors: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 7-10)
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:52) - Part 7: Form From Chaos (00:41:36) - Part 8: Creativity...
#92- Fractal History and the Imagination: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 4-6)
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:50) - Part 4: Fractal History (00:54:51 ) - Part 5: Creativity and ...
#91- Chaos, Consciousness, and Creativity: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 1-3)
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A DMT priest, an evolutionary biologist, and a chaos mathematician walk into a hot-tub in California... (00:00:00) - Host Intro (00:00:43) - Cast of C...
#90 - Robert Anton Wilson: Prometheus Rising
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Old Bob Explains Everything Once Again Check out Prometheus Rising: https://en.wikiped...
#89 - Joseph Campbell: Integrating the Myths of East and West
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:23) The Thresholds of Mythology (00:56:06) The Inward Journey (01:44:15) Confrontation of East and West In Religion (02...
#88 - New Podcast Launch: Hemlock
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A HoPAA-exclusive preview of my new history podcast "Hemlock" - available now on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/hemlockpatreon Please come...
#87 - Jeremy Rifkin: The Promise of the Third Industrial Revolution
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can the economy be reorganized to serve human needs and preserve the environment while maintaining growth and technological advancement? What fut...
#85 - Kurt Vonnegut: We Are All Dancing Animals
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I am suing the cigarette company - I have been smoking nothing but Pall Malls since I was 11. Right there on the package it says 'this stuff...
#84 - David Bentley Hart: The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Satchitananda)
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Bentley Hart is an American theologian that works at the intersection of faith, philosophy, aesthetics, and Eastern religion. In this talk, he d...
#83 - Richard D. Wolff: Intro to Marxism (Crises and Openings) REUPLOAD
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How would a Marxist economy function without a state that backs property rights? How could a corporation operate without a board of directors? How cou...
#82 - Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Full Audiobook)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Russian painter and synesthete Wassily Kandinsky developed a vision of art as a spiritual pursuit and elaborated that vision in his book "Con...
#81 - The Question of (Everyone's) Guilt
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever feel guilty? You probably should. Especially if you're an American.
#80 - John Dupré: Process Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, and Evolution
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Dupré is a leading philosopher of biology working at the intersection between the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences. The term...
A Jazz-Soaked Philosophy [Complete] - Cornel West
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This year (2024) Dr. Cornel West was invited to give the annual Gifford Lecture Series at the University of Edinburgh. He shook things up - rather tha...
Self Under Siege [Complete] - Rick Roderick
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1993 Rick Roderick. professor of philosophy at Duke University and elsewhere delivered a capstone eight-part series reviewing philosophers who pose...
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1988 veteran journalist Bill Moyers sat down for a series of six interviews with leading scholar of comparative religion and mythology Joseph Campb...
Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution - Wendy Brown
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this 2015 talk, philosopher Wendy Brown, author of "Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution" and "Regulating Aversion" gives a f...
Justice for Animals - Martha Nussbaum
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do animals deserve rights in the same way that human beings do? How can those rights be determined, and do they differ from animal to animal based on ...
Herbert Marcuse Double Episode
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Herbert Marcuse was one of the leading intellectuals of the 1960s, and did more than perhaps any other philosopher to shape the intellectual foundatio...
Existentialism in Literature: Kafka, Dostoevsky, Hesse
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Presentation by Robert C. Solomon Existentialism began not in philosophy but primarily in literature - Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground and...
The Crucifixion of Julian Assange - A Sermon by Chris Hedges
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Assange is one of the few heroes to have lived and worked in my lifetime. It is clear that he will never receive a fair trial, never exercise h...
What is the Soterioactive?
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've committed a grave sin - coining a new term - and that terms is soterioactive. The soterioactive is all forms of human activity that serve pri...
American Anomie - Chris Hedges
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Anomie" is a term from the foundational French sociologist Emile Durkheim. It refers to the rage and chaos created in individuals and the n...
Philosophy at the Graveyard Shift
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hey everybody - this is a personal episode, I saw that there are a few people listening now and I wanted to say a few things about what I have learned...
The James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Debate
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965, James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley on the following topic: "Has the American Dream been Achieved at the Expense of the American Ne...
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy: Euminedes [Complete]
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ATHENA: Nothing that strikes a note of brutal conquest. Only peace- blessings, rising up from the earth and the heaving sea, and down the vaulting sky...
In Living Memory: Noam Chomsky
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-hospitalized-stroke-recovery-brazil-4fb6782abf6a7b6d0bbb30cefa05cede I learned yesterday that Noam Chomsky ha...
500 Subscriber Special - Existentialism is a Humanism, Read by the Host
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
500 subscribers is a surprise and a delight. I started this thing just for myself and a small group of interested friends, and I'm really happy to...
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (4): Libation Bearers
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Synopsis: Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon is in a real pickle. His mother has conspired with her new boy-toy/husband Aegisthus to murde...
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (3): Clytemnestra
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He had no way to flee or right his destiny- our never-ending, all embracing net, I cast it wide for the royal haul, I coil him round and round in the ...
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (2): Agamemnon
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Michael Davis discusses the first work in Aeschylus' trilogy, the Agamemnon. Short story short: Agamemnon wants to go do the Troj...
Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (1): Why We Love Tragedy
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek ...
Michael Sugrue - Plato's Republic: The Complete Guide [Reupload]
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've taken a few of Professor Sugrue's lectures and stitched them together to make a complete, one-stop shopping guide to Plato's Republic...
Chris Hedges - American Sadism
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Advisory: This episode is INTENSE and it is not suitable for children. Discusses violence against women and children as well as warfare and torture. C...