Hermitix

Question and Answer session with James - 6/1/2022 - Edited from a live Youtube recording.

John Zerzan is an anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. In this episode we discuss his latest book When We Are Human: Notes from the Age of Pandemics, alongside discussions on the death of civilization, anarcho-primitivism, modernity and more.  --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscripti...

David F. Skrbina is a former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Dearborn.  In this episode we discuss Ted Kaczynski's book Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How ---   Become part of the Hermitix community:   Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast   Support Hermitix:   Hermitix Subscription - https://he...

Sam Kunkel is a scholar specializing in Orphic literature, weird fiction and European symbolism. In this episode we discuss the recently released book A Beam of Sunlight in the Deep Forest—Mystical Prose Works by Édouard Schuré Purchase the book here : https://firsttoknock.com/products/a-beam-of-sunlight-in-the-deep-forest-mystical-prose-works-by-edouard-schure --- Become part of the Hermitix comm...

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael  Greer, to discuss his book After Progress: Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age, alongside discussions on belief, Christianity, Nietzsche, peak oil and more... --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - https://discord.gg/77abuTVYNG...

Hans-Georg Moeller is a professor at the University of Macau, his research focuses on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy and on Social and Political Thought, alongside this he is the host of the Carefree Wandering Youtube channel. In this episode we discuss the book You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity , which he co-authored with Paul J. D'Ambrosio, alongside discussions on sincerity,...

David Engels is a Historian & Philosopher of History. Chair for Roman History at the University of Brussels (ULB) and Research Professor at the Instytut Zachodni. In this episode we discuss the first volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West . --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - ht...

Edward Baring is an intellectual historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe. He is Associate Professor of History and Human Values at Princeton University. In this episode we discuss his book Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy , alongside discussions on Heidegger, Maritain, Edith Stein, Husserl, Phenomenology and more. --- Become part of the Hermitix...

Daniel Schwindt lives in central Kansas, the cultural navel of the  world, and from there he has produced a series of non-fiction works:  The Papist's Guide to America; There Must Be More Than This: Identity  & Spiritual Renewal in the Kingdom of 'Whatever'; Catholic Social  Teaching: A New Synthesis; Holocaust of the Childlike; and The Case  Against the Modern World:...

In this episode I’m joined by Massimiliano Simons is postdoctoral  researcher in philosophy of science at Ghent University and member of  the Working Group on Philosophy of Technology (WGPT) at KU Leuven --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - http...

David F. Skrbina is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Dearborn.  In this episode we discuss his book Panpsychism in the West. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/...

Louis Markos is Professor in English at Houston Baptist University He is the author of multiple works on Christianity, the work of C.S. Lewis and the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. In this episode we discuss his book From Plato to Christ - How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith , alongside discussions on belief in relation to the postmodern world, Gnosticism, C.S. Lewis, Dante and more... --- Be...

Tim is Junior Research Fellow in Political Theology at Campion Hall,  University of Oxford, and Researcher Director at the "Laudato Si'  Research Institute", a new institute conducting academic research in the  field of ecology and social change. He is also an ordained Priest in  the Church of England. In this episode we discuss Bruno Latour's text  'We Have Never Been Mod...

Cristina Chimisso is a Professor of Philosophy for Open University. In this episode we talk about her book Hélène Metzger: Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences. ---   Become part of the Hermitix community:   Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast   Support Hermitix:   Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/   Patreon - https://www.p...

Matthew Lewis Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of   Theology and Religious Studies at St John's University. In this episode  we discuss his book Heaven Opens: The Trinitarian Mysticism of Adrienne  von Speyr alongside discussion on the Trinity, obedience, Ignatius of  Loyola, Hans Urs von Balthasar and more...   Matthew's site: http://doctorsutton.ne...

Louis Betty is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of  Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he teaches courses in French and Humanities. In this episode we discuss his book Without God: Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror, alongside discussions on secularism, meaning, post-materialism and more... --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Her...

Michael P. Federici is professor of political science and international relations at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author and editor of multiple books on political philosophy. In this episode we discuss the work of Eric Voegelin, alongside discussions on Gnosticism, the meaning of the phrase 'Immanentize the Eschaton', liberalism and more... --- Become part of the Hermitix community...

Jeremy Johnson,  is a scholar, writer, and editor for Revelore Press. In this episode we discuss the philosophy of Jean Gebser, alongside discussions on integral philosophy, process philosophy and more... --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - https://...

In this first part of a series of 3 talks on René Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, I explain the cycle of mimetic contagion, and Girard's theorizations of Jesus and Satan in relation to mimetic desire.  --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - https://discord.gg/77abuTVYNG Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscript...

Esmé Lily Katherine Partridge is a researcher, writer and interfaith  coordinator specialising in Islamic Studies, theology, mysticism and spirituality in a digital age. In this episode we discuss spirituality in the digital age, mysticism and faith in the modern world and more... Esmé's blog can be found here: https://www.esmelkpartridge.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermit...

Jason Josephson-Storm received his M.T.S. from Harvard University and  his Ph. D. in Religious  Studies from Stanford University. He has held  visiting positions at  Princeton University, École Française  d’Extrême-Orient in France and  Ruhr-Universität and Universität Leipzig  in Germany. He has  three primary research foci: Japanese Religions,  Europe...

Jay Garfield is an American professor of philosophy who specializes in Tibetan Buddhism. In this episode we loosely discuss his book Engaging Buddhism: Why Does Buddhism Matter to Philosophy? , alongside discussions on what is meant by 'Western philosophy', and the hegemony of Western philosophical modes of study. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/He...

Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. In this episode we discuss his conversion to Orthodox Christianity, Western cultural collapse, modernity, hell and spiritual belief in contemporary society. Kingsnorth's blog can be found here: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermi...

Murray Stein, Ph. D.is a training analyst at the International  School for  Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, Paul Bishop Professor Paul  Bishop is the author of multiple books on the work of Carl Jung and  analytical psychology. In this second episode on Carl Jung's Black Books, we discuss the mysticism and content of the Black Books. --- Become part of the Hermiti...

Lance Strate is an American writer and professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited , alongside various other texts on media ecology. In this episode we discuss Neil Postman's text Amusing Ourselves to Death . --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter....