Philosophers Audio & Video

Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond.

With the the LearnOutLoud Biography podcast series we will explore the lives of notable people throughout history.

ENGL 53.40 was taught by Cornel West in Summer 2017. This course examined the historical philosophy of the towering Black scholar and great freedom fighter of the 20th Century.

For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms....

This classical autobiographical account of solitary life in the woods by Walden Pond is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature.

This feature-length documentary is a hilarious and mind-bending journey into the multi-dimensional life of Robert Anton Wilson, one of the foundations of 20th Century Western counterculture and author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy.

A brilliant Greek writer and philosopher, Plutarch wrote detailed biographies of 46 legendary...

A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. The six representatives are Plato, Swedenborg, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Napolean and Goethe.

God is dead. The Superman. The Will to Power. The Eternal Recurrence.