Summer Reading List 2017
July 2, 2017
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins…
Literature Tagged Episodes
Remixing Reality – Art and Literature for the 21st Century
April 16, 2017
For decades, literary critics have been questioning the relevance of the novel as a literary…
How Fiction Shapes Us
May 24, 2015
A good novel can do many things. It can distract us from the humdrum of…
Summer Reading List 2014
June 8, 2014
What philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues would you like to read up on over the…
The State of Public Philosophy
September 8, 2013
In the 18th and 19th Century, philosophers and intellectuals were immersed in politics and popular…
Reading, Narrative, and the Self
April 7, 2013
Reading is a lot of fun, especially narrative fiction – everyone loves a good story.…
Philosophy in Fiction
January 22, 2012
Philosophers think a lot about fiction. But do novelists think about philosophy? Do philosophers make…
Summer Reading List 2011
May 29, 2011
Summer’s just around the corner – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want…
Derrida and Deconstruction
January 16, 2011
Jacques Derrida was one of the most influential and also one of the most polarizing…
Philosophy and Literature
August 9, 2009
What can we learn from studying philosophy? What can we learn from reading great (or…
Athletic Beauty
April 6, 2008
Figure skating is athletic and beautiful. How about a bone-crunching tackle? Or a spikes-high slide…
A Philosophical Summer Reading List
May 16, 2006
Are there some philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues you want to bone up on over…
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