Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ Reach out via email: williamengels@substack.com When we reach 100 reviews on Spotify I will record and drop a public domain philosophy audiobook - free for the end of time, licensed under the unrestricted MIT/Gnu Public License. So hit the button, people. You too, Apple Podcast audience… -//- Link to Ep 1 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c6c5W2RsvkE?si=lMuZ1gxIVmNqEX8_ Link to Professor Casagranda's YouTube Page https://www.youtube.com/@DrRoyCasagranda (00:00:00) - Intro (00:04:57) - Part 1: Arabs, Romans, Seljuks, Popes, and Normans (CE 700-1108) (01:48:00) - Part 2: 35 Years of Chaos, Assassinations, and Madness (02:58:47) - Part 3: Intro to Saladin, aka Salah ud-Din (04:54:28) - Part 4: Conclusion to Salah ud-Din, Finale of the Crusades -//-

Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ “Worlds on worlds are rolling ever from creation to decay - Like the bubbles on a river: Sparkling, bursting, borne away.” Percy Shelley, Hellas, 1822 ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellas_(poem)⁠ -//- (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:35) - What is Romanticism? (00:33:33) - Folk Culture, the Ballad Tradition, and Robert Burns (01:11:53) - Wordsworth and Coleridge: Ballads of Nature and the Supernatural (01:45:19) - Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800: Rustic Life and the Questionable Pleasures of Nature (02:22:31) - The Descriptive-Meditative Poem and the Divine in Nature (02:56:32) - Wordsworth and the Invention of Childhood (03:32:36) - Blake and Infantine Innocence (04:04:31) - Blake and Satanic Energy (04:40:58) - The Byronic Hero (05:17:17) - Byron and Shelley: Darkness and Light (05:51:15) - Gothic Horrors: Coleridge's “Christabel” and Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein” (06:23:21) - Keats's (Mock-) Gothic Romances (06:58:35) - Keats's Great Odes (07:30:39) - Byron's Comic Epic: Don Juan -//- ⁠Adam Potkay⁠ is a professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and a recipient of a 2009 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence. In August 2009, he was designated William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities. In 1996, Professor Potkay and his wife and fellow College of William and Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay were jointly honored with the College of William and Mary’s Alumni Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Potkay has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University and at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He received his B.A. from Cornell University (1982), an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University (1986), and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University (1990). A distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century literature and culture, Professor Potkay has published works that include The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume (Cornell University Press, 2000) and The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume (Cornell University Press, 1994). He is the coeditor (with Sandra Burr) of a collection of autobiographies and sermons by some of the earliest black writers in English, Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas (St. Martin’s Press, 1995). He has published scholarly articles and more popular essays in a wide variety of journals, from 18th-Century Studies and Studies in Early Modern Philosophy to Philosophy Now and Raritan Quarterly. Professor Potkay was recently named a co-winner of the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association for his book The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2007). The Story of Joy outlines an intellectual and literary history of joy, especially the treatments of joy in literature, philosophy, and religion, with an emphasis on British and German works from the Reformation through the Romantic period.

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, and diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky, Who Rules the World?, 2017. Recorded at the New York YM Poetry Center, Broadcast YWHA, February 1970 Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ Text Link https://chomsky.info/government-in-the-future/

Buy Michael's Book on Amazon (Untracked Link): https://www.amazon.com/Land-Power-Doesnt-Determines-Societies/dp/1541604814/ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212924049-land-power Author's Website: https://www.michaelalbertus.com/ Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ Guest Bio: Michael Albertus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of five books. His newest book, Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies, will be published by Basic Books in January 2025. It tells the story of how land came to be power within human societies, how it shapes power, and how its allocation determines the major social ills that societies grapple with.  Albertus studied math, electrical engineering, and political science at the University of Michigan and earned degrees in all three in 2005. He then did a PhD in political science at Stanford University, completing in 2011. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Albertus joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2012 and has since been on sabbatical twice back at Stanford, including as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences. In addition to his books, Albertus is also the author of nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, including at flagship journals like the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and World Politics. He has taught courses to undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students on topics including inequality and redistribution, democracy and dictatorship, comparative politics, and political and economic development and policy in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. The defining features of Albertus' work are his engagement with big questions and puzzles and the ability to join big data and cutting-edge research methods with original, deep on-the-ground fieldwork everywhere from government offices to archives and farm fields. He has conducted fieldwork throughout the Americas, southern Europe, South Africa, and elsewhere. His books and articles have won numerous awards and shifted conventional understandings of democracy, authoritarianism, and the consequences of how humans occupy and relate to the land. -//-

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.” -Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949 -//- 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:16 - The Origins of Western Mythology 00:52:42- The Mythology of Love 01:40:07 - The Arthurian Tradition 02:33:025 - The Grail Legend 03:45:46 - The Forest Adventure of Parsifal -//- These talks, entitled "The Western Quest" were delivered in November 1978 at Washington University by Joseph Campbell in front of a live audience. In the complete works of Joseph Campbell, they are delineated in the catalogue as the Lecture II, 6.1-6.5.

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon -//- James Low's YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@jameslow Video Source: https://youtu.be/gf51n8V8vII

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon This is an eight lecture series, delivered in 2010 at UC Berkeley by the philosophy professor and overall great human being Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus as part of a Great Books course. Enjoy.

Reach out and share your thoughts! williamengels@substack.com Congratulations on a great 2024 - a couple of channel-exclusive messages and announcements as we take the podcast into 2025. Cheers to a great year. References: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose.

Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ “Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent” -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus Original Video: https://youtu.be/371LobXpUlo

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon "The philosopher as we understand him, we free spirits - as the man of the most comprehensive responsibility who has the conscience for the collective evolution of mankind: this philosopher will make use of the religions for his work of education and breeding, just as he will make use of existing political and economic conditions….the will to self-mastery is always increasing - religion presents them with sufficient instigations and temptations to take the road to higher spirituality, to test the feelings of great self-overcoming, of silence and solitude.-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886 -//- (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:41) - Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker (00:44:34) - Nietzsche on Truth and Lies (01:23:54) - Master of Suspicion, the Immoralist (02:04:23) - The Death of God (02:46:06) - The Eternal Return (Time is a Flat Circle) (03:25:04) - The Will to Power (04:08:08) - Nietzsche as Artist (04:49:20) - Nietzsche's Bastard Children