Michael has been teaching German to people from all walks of life for more than a quarter century. And as more and more people have been asking me how best to learn German to read German philosophers…
Trace the beginnings of the human Spirit in Egypt with my colleague Carla Berenice’s course The Egyptian Mind«Egypt is the Land of the Symbol» Hegel In his lectures on the «Philosophy of Art», or…
In his lectures on Aesthetics Hegel famously states that Ancient «Egypt is the land of the symbol.» In our age, the land of the symbol has been reduced to a repository of signs, of empty signifiers…
Why does our culture turn to the mummy into an object of fear and horror? Carla Berenice enlightens us in her fascinating lecture. Her course on the Egyptian Mind is now open for enrolment. We start…
My final verdict on the worst adaptation of Homer ever made. No wonder Ben Shapiro and Pageau love it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access…
Even though Plato apparently bans Homer alongside other poets from his Ideal City, he still heralds Odysseus as an ideal hero. Plato even ends his Republic with a continuation of the myth of Odysseus.…
Reading Adorno again on Odysseus I was struck by the simplistic and all too obvious subversion. Adorno understands Odysseus, who would have thought it, as a bourgeois, or rather as the burgeois…
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Some musings on the state of Academic philosophy and how to read philosophy today. Also, an invitation to join my Halkyon Philosophy Academy. And just this weekend 25% off all our courses. Use coupon…
In this dialogue Carla and Johannes explore ancient Egyptian civilisation and their profound answers to the human condition. Our discussion focuses on how their conceptualisation of life, deeply tied…
