By Robert Harrison
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December 13, 2005. Listen to French Philosopher Michel Serres speak about his career and thought.
December 13, 2005. Listen to Stanford Professor Monika Greenleaf speak about Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita.
December 06, 2005. Listen to Stanford Professor Jean-Marie Apostolidès speak about the literary career of Albert Camus and his most famous novel, The Stranger.
November 28, 2005. Listen to Stanford Professor Jeffrey Schnapp speak about crowds from the ancient world to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
November 22, 2005. Listen to American philosopher Richard Rorty speak about his career and the current state of philosophy in America.
Nov. 15, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Emerita Marjorie Perloff speak about the poetry and politics of Ezra Pound.
November 8, 2005. Listen to Stanford Classics Professor Andrea Nightingale speak about Epicureanism throughout the ages.
November 1, 2005. Listen to Stanford French Professor Joshua Landy speak about the vocation of literature and Marcel Proust's 4000 page novel, A la recherche du temps perdu.
October 25, 2005. Listen to Stanford Classics Professor Susanna Braund speak about the poetry of Virgil.
October 18, 2005. Listen to Stanford IHUM Fellow speak about the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
October 11, 2005. Listen to Professor Elisabeth Boyi speak about African and Caribbean authors who write in French, with special focus on the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire.
October 4, 2005. Listen to Professor Girard speak about his theory of ritual sacrifice and the scapegoat in relation to myth and religion from the Old Testament to Ancient Greek Tragedy to Nietzsche.
September 28, 2005. This week we talk about the French Enlightenment with Professor Dan Edelstein. The discussion includes the relationship between the Enlightenment and Totalitarianism.
September 17, 2005. This week we talk about sports and athletic beauty with Professor Gumbrecht, whose new book "In praise of athletic beauty" just appeared in Germany.
September 17, 2005. Listen to Professor Girard speak about his theory of mimetic desire in relation to authors like Shakespeare and Cervantes.
September 14, 2005. This week we are talking about the modern French novel with Stanford Professor Laura Wittman. We will spend most of the time speaking about Michel Tournier's novel Friday
A conversation with Bryan Cheong about Artificial Intelligence. Bryan Cheong received his Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, with a degree in applied and computational mathematics. He then went on to receive a Masters degree in Materials Science, also from...
Our host Robert Harrison on America’s nature and political history. Songs in this episode: “I’m A King Bee” by Grateful Dead “Machine Gun” by Jimi Hendrix “Dear Mother Earth” by Canned Heat
Reflections by our host, Professor Robert Harrison. Songs in this episode: “Winter Mind” by Robert Harrison “St. Lucy” by Robert Harrison “Adagio per archi” by Samuel Barber “Annabel Lee” by Glass Wave
Aishwary Kumar is Professor and Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair in Political Nonviolence at California State and Polytechnic University, Pomona, Los Angeles. Aishwary is the author of “Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy”– subject of two Entitled Opinions episodes...
A conversation with Maria Elena Monzani, lead scientist at SLAC national accelerator laboratory and one of the world’s pioneer investigators of dark matter.Songs in this episode:“The World Spins” by Julee Cruise
Andrew J. Mitchell is professor of philosophy at Emory University. He has appeared on Entitled Opinions in the past, and he is back today to discuss Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" with our host, Professor Robert Harrison. Songs in this episode: "Echo"...
In this episode our host, Professor Robert Harrison, speaks on the topic of depression. Songs in this episode: "All Along The Watchtower" by Jimi Hendrix "Ophelia" by Glass Wave "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix
A conversation with Scott Thomas Anderson, writer and producer of the documentary podcast series "Drinkers with Writing Problems". Season 2 of Scott's podcast premiered on January 20, 2022. Songs played in this episode: "Moby Dick" by Glass Wave "Fat Angel" by Jefferson Airplane
Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of Czesław Miłosz: A California Life, from Berkeley’s Heyday Books and 2018’s Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, the first-ever biography of the renowned...
Dr. Miles Osgood received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard University, and he is currently a Lecturer in the Structured Liberal Education program at Stanford. He has designed and taught classes on Ulysses, modernist women writers, and global short...
Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson is a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program at Stanford. She received her PhD from Stanford in the French & Italian Department in 2020, and MA in Communication in 2014. Her research is...
Sophus Helle is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. He previously translated "The Epic of Gilgamesh" into Danish with his father. His English translation of the epic was recently published by Yale University Press. Songs in this episode: "Helen" by...
Markus Gabriel holds the chair in epistemology, modern, and contemporary philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany, and also serves as the Director of its International Center for Philosophy. He works mainly in epistemology and metaphysics (ontology) drawing his inspirations...
This episode is a brief monologue by our host, Professor Robert Harrison. Songs in this episode: "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix "Present Tense" by Radiohead
Scott Thomas Anderson is a journalist whose work regularly appears in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Sacramento News & Review. He studied American Literature at the University of California at Davis, and while the bulk of his 15-year career...
Joseph Cermatori is assistant professor of English at Skidmore College. He specializes in the fields of comparative literature, modern and contemporary drama, performance studies, and critical theory. Beyond his research in twentieth-century modernism, his scholarship encompasses the broad history of...
Alex Rex Nielson is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is the founding member of the UK band Trembling Bells, which recorded six albums before Alex went on to make four solo albums under the band name Alex Rex. Songs played in...
A conversation with Thomas Woltz about landscape architecture. Thomas Woltz is the owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Over the past two decades of practice Thomas and his team have infused narratives of the land into the places where people...
A monologue by Robert Harrison. Outro song: "The End" by The Doors
A conversation with Aqsa Ijaz about the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi. Aqsa Ijaz is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. She is a singer, translator, writer, book reviewer, and a literary scholar. Outro song:...
A conversation with Bryan Cheong about the laws of thermodynamics. Bryan Cheong received his Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, with a degree in applied and computational mathematics. He then went on to receive a Masters degree in Materials Science, also...
A conversation with Professor Mark C. Taylor on the topic of his new book: Seeing Silence (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Mark C. Taylor is Professor of Religion at Columbia University and the Cluett Professor of Humanities emeritus at Williams College. Outro...
A conversation with Professor Thomas Harrison on the topic of his new book: Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Thomas Harrison is Professor of Italian at UCLA. Outro song: "Bold As Love" by Jimi Hendrix
A conversation with Professor Mark C. Taylor on the topic of his new book: Intervolution - Smart Bodies, Smart Things (Columbia University Press, 2020). Mark C. Taylor is Professor of Religion at Columbia University and the Cluett Professor of Humanities emeritus...
A conversation with Professor Christy Wampole on the topic of her new book: Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France (Columbia University Press, 2020). Christy Wampole is Associate Professor of French at Princeton University. Outro song: "Coeur Bizarre" by La Féline
A brief monologue by Robert Harrison on Marcel Proust for the 150th anniversary of his birth on July 10, 1871. Outro song: "She's Not There" by The Zombies
A monologue by Robert Harrison.
Songs featured in this episode: “We Used To Know” by Jethro Tull” “We’re Going Wrong” by Cream “Handful of Hair” by Alex Rex “Annabel Lee” by Glass Wave
Before Entitled Opinions goes on hiatus, Robert Harrison wanted to share a few brief thoughts with you on time, death, and cosmos.
In this monologue professor Robert Harrison talks about human solarity in its various aspects. Music included in this show: La Nuit du Rat--Le Féline Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun--Pink Floyd Gimme Shelter--The Rolling Stones
In this recently recorded monologue, professor Robert Harrison discusses the sixteenth century Italian poem l'Orlando Furioso. Additionally, professor Harrison calls into question the anticipant revelatory power of literary works that belong to the past.
This week we offer a recording of a talk that was originally given by professor Robert Harrison in 2014, for the Stanford lecture series "Memory and the Arts". Topics of discussion include: cultural memory, the enigma of beginnings, and special reference...
With our recording studio at KZSU temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, professor Robert Harrison has decided to open the Entitled Opinions Happy Hour Bar, offering up some small shots of poetry, on the house! This Happy Hour (our second...
May 8, 2020-- Robert Harrison discusses with Christopher Lydon social media, biotechnology, and René Girard's theory of mimetic desire.