The archive

Paths

Ordered walks through the recordings. Begin one and the player follows it to the end.

Heidegger, from the beginning

Hubert Dreyfus's whole Berkeley course on Being and Time, division by division, and then the later Heidegger. About a hundred hours; the most complete reading of the book ever recorded.

9 recordings · 86 hours · BEGIN ↗

The Corbin – Jung – Hillman line

A lineage of the imagination: Jung on the stone and the Red Book, Shamdasani on Liber Novus, Hillman's archetypal psychology, Corbin's mundus imaginalis, and Cheetham drawing the three together.

11 recordings · 20 hours · BEGIN ↗

Dreyfus reads the great books

From Homer to Dostoyevsky: the Berkeley lectures behind All Things Shining. Each recording is a whole book, read slowly, for what it says about how to live.

9 recordings · 61 hours · BEGIN ↗

Strauss on the ancients

Leo Strauss's Chicago seminars, in the order the questions arise: Socrates on trial, Thucydides on war, the origins of political science, and natural right against history.

9 recordings · 84 hours · BEGIN ↗

The chemists of the mind

The people who made and mapped the molecules, in their own voices: Hofmann, Shulgin, Schultes, Ott, Sand, McKenna, Stamets, Grof.

10 recordings · 9 hours · BEGIN ↗

The learning of the imagination

Blake, Yeats and the Temenos school: Kathleen Raine on poetry as prophecy and nature as the house of the soul, then Yeats's system, Barfield, Lachman and Borges on the craft.

10 recordings · 12 hours · BEGIN ↗

Gnosis and the weird

Erik Davis's map of the high strangeness — gnosticism, Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, the phantasm — with Dick and Wilson speaking for themselves, and Kripal on the religion of no religion.

8 recordings · 16 hours · BEGIN ↗

Political philosophy in a season

Strauss's introduction, then the history from Plato to Locke and Rousseau to Rothbard, Hegel's philosophy of history, and Voegelin, Kolakowski and Scruton on where it left us.

9 recordings · 52 hours · BEGIN ↗