Episodes

  • S2E17 – Arturo Campagna on history for children

    S2E17 – Arturo Campagna on history for children
    Oct 13 2022

    Image: The Rock Nobody Could Lft, etching by Rain Wu (2018)
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    18 mins
  • S2E16 – Nicolas Jaar on sound and silence

    S2E16 – Nicolas Jaar on sound and silence
    Oct 6 2022

    Image credit: Ceramic figurine from the Moche culture of the north coast of Peru depicting a flute player.
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    33 mins
  • S2E15 – ‘The Alexander Romance’

    S2E15 – ‘The Alexander Romance’
    Sep 30 2022

    Image credit: The prophets Elias and Khadir at the fountain of life, late 15th century. Folio from a khamsa (quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Timurid period. Opaque watercolor and silver on paper. Herat, Afghanistan.
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    26 mins
  • S2E14 – Manlio Poltronieri on the Buddhist Dharma and the West

    S2E14 – Manlio Poltronieri on the Buddhist Dharma and the West
    Sep 22 2022

    Image credit: Womb Realm (garbhakosa-dhatu or taizōkai) mandala. Shingon tantric buddhist school, Heian period (794-1185), Tō-ji, Kyōto, Japan.
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    21 mins
  • S2E13 – Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, ‘The Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art’

    S2E13 – Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, ‘The Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art’
    Sep 15 2022

    Image credit: 10th century Chola dynasty bronze sculpture of Shiva, the Lord of the Dance.
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    25 mins
  • S2E12 – Prof. Saul Newman on political theology

    S2E12 – Prof. Saul Newman on political theology
    Sep 9 2022

    Image credit: Detail from the frontispiece of Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ by Abraham Bosse,1651
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    29 mins
  • S2E11 – Max Stirner, ‘The Ego and Its Own’, Étienne de La Boétie, ‘Discourse on Voluntary Servitude’

    S2E11 – Max Stirner, ‘The Ego and Its Own’, Étienne de La Boétie, ‘Discourse on Voluntary Servitude’
    Sep 2 2022

    Image credit: Max Stirner in a cartoon by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
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    32 mins
  • S2E10 – Dr. Francesco Strocchi on life in the late Roman republic

    S2E10 – Dr. Francesco Strocchi on life in the late Roman republic
    Aug 25 2022

    Image credit: Roman coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar, issued in 42 BC
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    28 mins