Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

September 30, 2008--A conversation with literary historian Nicholas Jenkins about the life and work of poet W.H. Auden

April 14, 2009--A conversation with Professor Lanier Anderson about the Existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

February 19, 2008--A conversation with historian and literary theorist Hayden White about the vocation of the humanities

August 9, 2013--Robert Harrison discusses cosmology and inflationary theory with Stanford physicist Andrei Linde.

May 15, 2007--A conversation with Professor Karen Feldman of Berkeley on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt.

April 18, 2012--Robert Harrison speaks with Hans Sluga about the life and work of Michel Foucault.

May 29, 2007--Part 1 of a conversation with Stanford Professor Charitini Douvaldzi about what is dead and what is alive in psychoanalysis.

November 4, 2008--Guest host Joshua Landy, Professor of French at Stanford University, speaks with Lera Boroditsky, Professor of Psychology about language and thought.

May 28, 2019-- In this episode filmmaker and author Werner Herzog discusses his remarkable book Of Walking in Ice, first published in 1978. The audio in this show is a recording of a live event that took place at Stanford University on May 7, 2019.

February 5, 2008--The first of a two part conversation with archaeologist Michael Shanks about the origins of agriculture

October 7, 2015--A conversation with Hans Sluga, professor of philosophy at UC-Berkeley, about the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

June 19, 2007--A monologue by Robert Harrison on T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and its connections with Dante's "Inferno."

February 15, 2011--Joshua Landy speaks with professor of philosophy at Princeton University Alexander Nehamas about beauty.

December 15, 2016--A conversation with writer, philosopher, and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk on Friedrich Nietzsche.

December 7, 2009--Robert Harrison discusses Machiavelli's The Prince

May 21, 2014--A conversation with Monika Greenleaf, Stanford professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, on Dostoevsky and his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov.

June 12, 2007--A conversation with Andrew Mitchell about poetry and thinking in the later work of Martin Heidegger.

March 8, 2011--Robert Harrison speaks with Blair Hoxby, Stanford Professor of English literature about Aristotle's Poetics.

April 12, 2011--Robert Harrison speaks about Samuel Beckett.

October 5, 2011--Robert Harrison speaks with Thomas Sheehan, Stanford Professor of Religious Studies, about phenomenology.