Literature Tagged Episodes

August 19, 2018

Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read…

July 2, 2017

Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins…

April 16, 2017

For decades, literary critics have been questioning the relevance of the novel as a literary…

May 24, 2015

A good novel can do many things. It can distract us from the humdrum of…

June 8, 2014

What philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues would you like to read up on over the…

September 8, 2013

In the 18th and 19th Century, philosophers and intellectuals were immersed in politics and popular…

April 7, 2013

Reading is a lot of fun, especially narrative fiction – everyone loves a good story.…

January 22, 2012

Philosophers think a lot about fiction. But do novelists think about philosophy? Do philosophers make…

May 29, 2011

Summer’s just around the corner – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want…

January 16, 2011

Jacques Derrida was one of the most influential and also one of the most polarizing…

August 9, 2009

What can we learn from studying philosophy?  What can we learn from reading great (or…

April 6, 2008

Figure skating is athletic and beautiful.  How about a bone-crunching tackle?  Or a  spikes-high slide…

May 16, 2006

Are there some philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues you want to bone up on over…