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Hermitix is a podcast focusing on one-on-one interviews relating to fringe philosophy, obscure theory, weird lit, underappreciated thinkers and movements, and that which historically finds itself 'outside' the academic canon.
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Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 2min
Melville, Mumford, and Modernity with Aaron Sachs
Aaron Sachs is a historian and Cornell University professor who primarily studies American environmental and cultural history. In this episode we discuss his book Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times.
Link: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215419/up-from-the-depths
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Nov 9, 2022 • 1h 20min
Theology and Horror with Ryan Duns
Ryan Duns is a Jesuit Priest who works at the intersection of philosophy and systematic theology. He has published on Karl Rahner, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, in this episode we discuss the overlap between theology and horror.
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Nov 5, 2022 • 57min
Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1
The first talk of four on Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization, covers Chapter 1, Cultural Preparation, and Chapter 2, Agents of Mechanization.
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Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 30min
Nietzsche, Steiner, and the Crisis of Modernity with Paul Bishop and Aaron French
I'm once again joined by Paul Bishop and Aaron French to discuss the overlap between the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Rudolf Steiner, especially in relation to the spiritual and religious crisis of modernity.
Notes from Aaron French:
1) At one point I said in the Nietzsche house in Weimar there is a picture of Heidegger in his “Nazi uniform.” I was just making a point here; in reality it is a photo of Heidegger in his large brown overcoat with a shiny Nazi pin on his breast, which is of course suggestive of a uniform.
2) The book in German that deals with the history of Steiner and the Nietzsche archives is David Marc Hoffmann, Zur Geschichte Des Nietzsche-Archivs: Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Fritz Koegel, Rudolf Steiner, Gustav Naumann, Josef Hofmiller: Chronik, Studien Und Dokumente (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1991).
3) For Steiner, the later philosophy of Nietzsche is a necessary spiritual confrontation with the logical conclusion and endpoint of the development of Western philosophy.
4) In terms of Kant’s inaccessible noumenal realm, Steiner came to see Goethe’s concept of morphology as providing crucial insight into his later Geisteswissenschaft (spiritual science), which claimed that higher organs of perception could be developed to observe a hidden and spiritual part of nature that was creative and alive and not mechanical. This conception of nature, Steiner argued, was the correct interpretation of Goethe’s “archetypal phenomena,” namely, that by staying with the phenomena itself one could observe the spiritual essence of the world without having to resort to abstract metaphysical systems that explain the hidden truth—i.e., natural science—but rather one could experience such spiritual essences phenomenologically and empirically.
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Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 30min
The Life and Work of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola with Sophia Howlett
Sophia Howlett is the President for the School for International Training. In this episode we discuss her book Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, alongside discussions on Ficino, God, and Kabbalah.
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Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 5min
Druidry with John Michael Greer
This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss his work on Druidry.
Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Druidry-Handbook-Spiritual-Practice-Rooted/dp/1578633540
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Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 21min
Jean Wahl and the Problem of Transcendence with William C. Hackett
William C. Hackett is a philosopher, novelist and translator. In this episode we discuss the work of Jean Wahl, primarily from the text Human Existence and Transcendence. Alongside discussions on phenomenology, Heidegger, God, faith, and more...
Hackett's translation: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/human-existence-and-transcendence/
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Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 13min
Jan Patočka and The Politics of Dissidence with Aspen Brinton
Aspen Brinton, Ph.D., is a political theorist. Her research interests include democratic theory, dissident movements, East-Central Europe, and the intellectual history of civil society and free speech. In this episode, we discuss her book Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on politics and dissidence, alongside discussions on Gandhi, phenomenology, Charter 77, and more.
Brinton's book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo68264285.html
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Oct 4, 2022 • 1h 5min
Nihilist to Catholic - A Journey
A video on my journey from being a nihilist to becoming a Catholic.
Please comment if you'd like to take part in an introduction to Christianity discussion series.

Sep 28, 2022 • 1h 2min
Bruno Latour's 'Facing Gaia' with Tim Howles
Tim is Junior Research Fellow in Political Theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Researcher Director at the "Laudato Si' Research Institute", a new institute conducting academic research in the field of ecology and social change. He is also an ordained Priest in the Church of England. In this episode we discuss Bruno Latour's text 'Facing Gaia'.
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