Podcast Episodes

Self Under Siege [Complete] - Rick Roderick

In 1993 Rick Roderick. professor of philosophy at Duke University and elsewhere delivered a capstone eight-part series reviewing philosophers who pos…

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The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

In 1988 veteran journalist Bill Moyers sat down for a series of six interviews with leading scholar of comparative religion and mythology Joseph Camp…

1 year, 8 months ago

Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution - Wendy Brown

In this 2015 talk, philosopher Wendy Brown, author of "Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution" and "Regulating Aversion" gives a fascinating overview and…

1 year, 8 months ago

Justice for Animals - Martha Nussbaum

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…

1 year, 8 months ago

Herbert Marcuse Double Episode

Herbert Marcuse was one of the leading intellectuals of the 1960s, and did more than perhaps any other philosopher to shape the intellectual foundati…

1 year, 8 months ago

Existentialism in Literature: Kafka, Dostoevsky, Hesse

Presentation by Robert C. Solomon

Existentialism began not in philosophy but primarily in literature - Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground and Ka…

1 year, 8 months ago

The Crucifixion of Julian Assange - A Sermon by Chris Hedges

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 …

1 year, 8 months ago

What is the Soterioactive?

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 primar…

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The Arab Spring and its Long Shadow - Roy Casagranda

The Arab Spring was not just an Arab revolution - it was a wave of revolutionary activity that touched Brazil, Myanmar, the United States (Occupy) an…

1 year, 8 months ago

American Anomie - Chris Hedges

"Anomie" is a term from the foundational French sociologist Emile Durkheim. It refers to the rage and chaos created in individuals and the networks t…

1 year, 8 months ago