Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

A conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor of Literature (Emeritus) at Stanford University. He is a recurring guest on Entitled Opinions, and he is back to discuss amor mundi, our collective future, and the role of love in politics alongside our host, Professor Robert Harrison.

A monologue in which our host, Professor Robert Harrison, reflects on different kinds of human love, and above all, love of the world.

Ana is a Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a Lecturer of French and Italian at Stanford. Her teaching and research focus on the relationship between literature, the industrial revolution, and technology from a Southern perspective.

May 22, 2007--A conversation with Brown University Professor Pierre Saint-Amand on the dark side of the French Enlightenment.

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

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

May 8, 2007--A conversation with Poet and Professor of Philosophy Troy Jollimore on his award winning book of poetry. Tom Thomson in Purgatory won the 2007 Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

May 1, 2007--A conversation with Stanford Professor Josiah Ober about democracy in ancient Athens.

April 24, 2007--A conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy about the vocation of higher education, the role of the Humanities at Stanford, and the general mission of Stanford University.

April 17, 2007