This episode discusses modernist poetry through Eliot's Waste Land.

This episode talks about Kant and his view of the problems of philosophy in his time and his influences on the future thinkers.

This episode outlines the differences and continuities between realism and naturalism. It also talks about the direction that the podcast will be taking.

This episode deals with Hume and his empiricism and skepticism.

This episode looks at a couple of American realist and give a brief look at Flaubert. It also talks about historical and cultural shifts.

This episode talks about Rousseau's Social Contract and some of the ways it influenced political thinkers after him.

This episode talks about the shift in Victorian literature from the individual of Romanticism to the social connection and critique of the Victorian writers Browning and Dickens.

This episode shifts from Locke's importance as a political philosopher to his foundation of Empiricism in the British tradition of philosophy.

This episode discusses the transition from Romanticism to Realism in English, French, Russian, and American literatures.

This episode talks about the influence of Descartes on the two and how even though they take the same position as a foundation, they come up with different ideas about the ideal system.