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Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) — 301 episodes
Werner Herzog on Truth
Robert Harrison on Death, Logos, and Technology
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature with Ato Quayson
The Many Lives of Ulysses with Miles Osgood
On Aging with Adrienne Corn
On William James with Mark Gonnerman
An Offering for the Winter Solstice with Abby Walthausen
What is Meditation? A conversation with Crystal Cassidy
A Conversation about Spirit with Christy Wampole
Entitled Opinions: The Twentieth Anniversary
Robert Harrison on Human Intelligence
Unselfing the Self with Michaela Hulstyn
The Philosophy of Inaction with Grant Dowling
The Physics and Spirit of Crystals with Aaron Breidenbach
The Wind: A Monologue
World War I, Modernism, David Jones with Tim Noakes
Cyber-Intimacy with Jeanne Proust
The Destructive Character: A Cover
Carl Jung with Laura Wittman
What is the Virtual? with Jan Söffner
Language, Music, and Meaning with Julie Sedivy
Rainer Maria Rilke with Alexander Sorenson
The Dark Places of Wisdom with Grant Bartolomé Dowling
Vico, Rome, and the Rise of American Fascism with Julian Davis
Nietzsche and van Gogh with Brian Pines
Bioregionalism and the Reinhabitation of Place with Mark Gonnerman
The Spirit of Rivers
Crime in America with Scott Thomas Anderson
Mindfulness in a Distracted World with Nate Klemp
The Artificiality of Natural Intelligence with David Bates
Dante’s Characters: Part Four, Brunetto Latini
Dante’s Characters: Part Three, Guido da Montefeltro
Dante’s Characters: Part Two, Ulysses
Dante’s Characters: Part One, Francesca da Rimini
Garry Nolan on UFOs
Women and Madness
Vico and Joyce
Robert Harrison on Giambattista Vico
On Gardenism with William Rosenzweig
Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American
On World, Love, and Gloom: An Open Conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Amor Mundi: Robert Harrison on World Love
Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Ana Ilievska
The Wilds of Artificial Intelligence with Bryan Cheong
The Idea of America
Three Poems for the Winter Solstice
On Democracy with Aishwary Kumar
Dark Matter, God, and the Fate of the Universe with Maria Elena Monzani
On Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy with Andrew Mitchell
Robert Harrison on Depression
California Writers Part 2
Czeslaw Milosz: A Discussion with Cynthia Haven
To the Lighthouse with Miles Osgood
Letter writing: A Media Revolution with Chloe Summers Edmondson
The Epic of Gilgamesh with Sophus Helle
Thought and Perception with Markus Gabriel
In The Flow: A Brief Monologue
California Writers Part 1
Baroque Modernity with Joseph Cermatori
The Uses of Trauma with Alex Rex
Custodianship of the Earth with Thomas Woltz
Robert Harrison on Great Narrative Endings
Aqsa Ijaz on Rumi
What is Matter? with Bryan Cheong
Mark C. Taylor on Silence
What do Bridges do? With Thomas Harrison
Mark C. Taylor on Technology, Cybernetics, and Intervolution
Christy Wampole on Degenerative Realism
Robert Harrison contre Proust
On the word “And”
Robert Harrison on Separation
On Time, Death, and Cosmos
The Heart of the Sun
The Fatidic Power of Literature
Dead Voices
Happy Hour with Jethro Tull
Robert Harrison on mimetic desire, social media, and biotechnology
Christopher Watkin on Michel Serres
Happy Hour with Jimi Hendrix
Boccaccio's Human Comedy
Pandemic, Dread, and Boccaccio’s Decameron
Robert Harrison on willows and thresholds
Pau Guinart on Salvador Dalí
Marisa Galvez on Crystals
Walking in Ice with Werner Herzog
A centennial tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The American Road— Part 1
The American Road— Part 2
On the railroad with Kai Carlson-Wee
Reflections on the color white
Cybersecurity with Donnie Hasseltine
Simone de Beauvoir with Jeremy Sabol
What is Love?
A tribute to summer
Alison McQueen on Political Realism and Apocalypse
Fred Turner on Cyberculture and The Democratic Surround
Quinn Slobodian on Neoliberalism
Francis Fukuyama on American Democracy and Accountability
Dan Edelstein on Human Rights
Priya Nelson on academic publishing
Alexander Key on Medieval Islamic thought
Andrew Hui on aphorism
Lena Herzog on dying languages
Richard Rorty on the future of philosophy
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Is Henry David Thoreau a philosopher, too? Andrea Nightingale votes yes.
William Hurlbut on gene editing
Eric McLuhan on Marshall McLuhan
Great albums of 1967 with Jay Kadis and Thomas Harrison
Michaela Hulstyn on Drugs in Literature
Sam Ginn on the Singularity
Hans Sluga on Trump's “Empire of Disorientation”
“I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite” : Peter Sloterdijk on Nietzsche
“Mary Shelley is a dissenting voice”: Inga Pierson on Frankenstein and the Age of Science
“It has happened. So it can happen again.” Philip Gourevitch on genocide
Rebecca Pekron on Arthur Rimbaud
A conversation about Joseph Conrad's The Shadow Line with Monika Greenleaf and Rush Rehm
Valerie Kinsey on Public Memory
Alice Kaplan on Albert Camus and “The Stranger”
Monika Greenleaf on Joseph Conrad's Polish Roots
Thomas Mullaney on the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on Guy Debord, Situationism, and Psychogeography
Poet Maria Stepanova on Memory and Russia’s “Schizoid Present”
Andrea Nightingale on J.A. Baker's “The Peregrine”
Aishwary Kumar on Gandhi and Ambedkar- Part 1
Aishwary Kumar on Gandhi and Ambedkar – Part 2
Werner Herzog on “The Peregrine” and the Importance of Reading
Sepp Gumbrecht on Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau
Rebecca Pekron on Edgar Allan Poe
Eric Roberts on Computer Science
Marilyn Yalom on Female Friendship
Niklas Damiris on Money
Marilynne Robinson and the Perception of the Ordinary
Thomas Ryckman on Albert Einstein
Ruth Starkman on Virtue Ethics
Hans Sluga on Politics
Hans Sluga on the life and work of Wittgenstein
Robert Harrison and Truman Chen on Randolph Bourne
Robert Harrison on Lightness and Heaviness in Art
Edward Feigenbaum on Artificial Intelligence
Paul Rabinow on Foucault and “the contemporary”
Jessica Merrill on Russian Futurism
Monika Greenleaf on Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov
Karol Berger on Richard Wagner- Part 1
Karol Berger on Richard Wagner- Part 2
Mark McGurl on Fiction-Writing Programs
David Lummus on Mythology
Richard Kearney on anatheism
Grisha Freidin on Leo Tolstoy
Sarah Churchwell on The Great Gatsby
“How Old are We?” — A Monologue
Dante and J. Alfred Prufrock
A Monologue on Dante & Prufrock
Andrei Linde on the Universe
Karen Feldman on Walter Benjamin
Inga Pierson on Simone Weil
Michael Hoyer on David Foster Wallace
Marisa Galvez on Troubadour Poetry
A Monologue on The Doors (Dedicated to Ray Manzarek)
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger & Technology
Amir Eshel on Franz Kafka
Robert Harrison on animal rights
Tamara Kayali on Bioethics
“It stuns me every time”: Lena Herzog on the Uncanny Powers of Photography
Paul Robinson on Charles Darwin
Martin Lewis and Asya Pereltsvaig on the Origins of Language
Robert Harrison on Margaret Fuller
Chloe Veltman on the Human Voice
Ewa Domanska on Post-humanism
Gabriella Safran on Listening
Andrew Hui on Petrarch and Petrarchism
EO listener Sasha Borovik on Life, Literature, and Lermontov
Leah DeVun on Hermaphroditism
Tanya Luhrmann on Magic, God, and the Supernatural
Debra Satz on John Rawls
Hans Sluga on Michel Foucault
Ursula Heise on Extinction
Stephen Hinton on Nietzsche and Wagner
Dr. Larry Zaroff on Medicine and the Humanity
Georges Lavaudant on a Life in Theater
Richard Martin on Homeric Epics
Martin Lewis on Geography
Denise Gigante on John Keats
Richard Saller on the Ancient Rome
Adrian Daub on Hegel
Patrick Hunt on the Rosetta Stone
Thomas Sheehan on Phenomenology
Sonia Korn-Grimani on her memoir of the Holocaust
Robert Harrison on Samuel Beckett
Stuart Edelstein on the Human Brain
Jay Kadis on Psychedelic Rock
Sarah Carey on Italian Cinema
Rush Rehm on Greek Tragedy
Blair Hoxby on Aristotle’s Poetics
Lyonel Trouillot on Haiti and Haitian literature
Christy Wampole on the Nouveau Roman
Alexander Nehamas on Beauty
Nicholas Halmi on the Romantic symbol
Héctor Hoyos on Roberto Bolaño
Mace Perlman on the Commedia dell'Arte
Caroline Winterer on Classicism in America
Andrea Nightingale on Moby Dick
The Ethos of “Cool”: Robert Harrison on Jim Morrison and The Doors
Laura Wittman on Georges Bataille
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger’s Being and Time
Thomas Harrison on Pink Floyd
Rush Rehm on Glass Wave, Robert Harrison's cerebral rock band
Joshua Landy on the Uses of Literature
Paula Findlen on Athanasius Kircher
Mark Mancall on Karl Marx
Vincent Barletta on Alexander the Great
Giuseppe Mazzotta on Italian Epic Poetry
Jay Kadis on Digital Music
Gwyneth Lewis on Welsh literature- Part 2
Gwyneth Lewis on Welsh literature- Part 1
Tobias Wolff on American fiction
Steven Orgel on Shakespeare’s King Lear
A Monologue on Wallace Stevens
A Monologue on Machiavelli
Andrea Nightingale on Plato
Hans Gumbrecht on Borges
Byrd Hale on Blues – Part 1
Byrd Hale on Blues – Part 2
Dick Gould on Tennis
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on the Unabomber
The Jimi Hendrix Solo Show
Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium – Part 2
Katie Peterson on Emily Dickinson
Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium- Part 1
Andrew Mitchell on Friedrich Nietzsche
Josh Landy with Michael Saler on the Re-enchantment of the World
Marília Librandi Rocha on Nuance and Brazil
Adrian Daub on the Metaphysics of Misogyny
Denise Gigante on Romanticism and Organic Form
Stephen Hinton on Beethoven – Part 2
Stephen Hinton on Beethoven- Part 1
Robert Harrison on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Philosopher Michel Serres – Réflexions sur l'Internet (in French)
Matt Farley on the Jesuit Order
Helen Stacy on Human Rights
Peter Stansky on WWII and the Blitz
Vinton Cerf of Google on the future of the internet
Josh Landy with Lera Boroditsky on language and thought
Dr. Abraham Verghese on medicine and his literary career
Heather Webb and Connie Solari on the heart
Dick Davis on Persian Literature
Sepp Gumbrecht on the philosophy of moods
Nicholas Jenkins on W.H. Auden
Paul Robinson on Intellectual History
Lanier Anderson on Sartre's Existentialism
Robert Harrison on Erwin Schrödinger
Robert Harrison on Giovanni Boccaccio
Marjorie Perloff on Irish Poet W.B. Yeats
Giovanni Tempesta on the Poetry of Robert Service
Blakey Vermeule on Jane Austen
Laura Wittman on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons
Hayden White on the Vocation of the Humanities
Dr. Stewart Agras on the History of Psychiatry
Archaeologist Michael Shanks on the Origins of Agriculture
Aron Rodrigue on the Ottoman Empire
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk
Historian Philippe Buc on Religion and Violence
Robert Harrison on vice
Robert Harrison on Dante and Prufrock
Andrew Mitchell on Poetry and Thinking in Heidegger
Stephen Hinton on Kurt Weill- Part 2
Stephen Hinton on Kurt Weill- Part 1
Charitini Douvaldzi on Freud- Part 1
Charitini Douvaldzi on Freud- Part 2
Pierre Saint-Amand on the French Enlightenment
Karen Feldman on Hannah Arendt- Part 2
Karen Feldman on Hannah Arendt – Part 1
Troy Jollimore on Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Josh Ober on Ancient Athenian Democracy
Stanford President John Hennessy on Stanford University
The Only Way Up is Down: Rachel Jacoff on Dante's Inferno
Rachel Jacoff: Hell Is Other People in Dante's Inferno
Rachel Jacoff on Dante's Divine Comedy – Part 3
Robert Harrison a monologue on Birds
Robert Harrison a monologue on Gardens
Irish Novelist Colm Toibin on Henry James
Drew Gibson on Corporations
Bissera Pentcheva on the Virgin Mary
Ken Berman on Jazz
Dr. Michael Hendrickson on “What is Life?”
Dr. Michael Hendrickson on “What is cancer?”
Marjorie Perloff on the European Avantgarde
Kathleen Sullivan on the American Constitution
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 1
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 2
Cécile Alduy on American writers in Paris
Seth Lerer on the history of the book
Lisa “Decca” Dornell on Love Poetry
Thomas Harrison on expressionism in the year 1910
Marilyn Yalom on the cemeteries of America
Paul Ehrlich on the Fate of the Earth
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on The Man Without Qualities
Thomas Sheehan on the historical Jesus
Kathryn Todd on Henry David Thoreau
Gregory Freidin on Isaac Babel
Novelist Shirley Hazzard