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Aaron J. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany.  His main research focuses on the History of Esotericism, the History and Philosophy of Science, Sacred Space and Architecture, modern German Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies. In this episode we discuss the work of Jacob Boehme. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermiti...

Brian Cotnoir is an alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Brian's website: KhepriPress.com To join the mailing list for Brian's talks and new work please SIgn Up Here My book Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and the Zines may be purchased through my website or in England and Europe through Watkins Bookstore in London or Iglootree.com These are the Watkins and Wieser books: On Alchemy...

Jon Stewart is an American philosopher and historian of philosophy. He specializes in 19th century Continental philosophy with an emphasis on the thought of Kierkegaard and Hegel . He has also worked in the field of Scandinavian Studies and has made the culture of the Danish Golden Age better known internationally. Stewart currently works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slova...

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Kristin M. Girten is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. In this episode we discuss her book Sensitive Witnesses Feminist Materialism in the British Enlightenment, alongside discussions on epicurean materialism and Lucretius. Book link: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35472 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Her...

Alex Monk is a psychotherapist and has a private practice in East London. He has also recorded and performed live as a musician for many years, and holds a keen interest in the arts, psychoanalysis, western esotericism, anthropology, weird fiction, folklore, and religion, all of which informed his research into his first book, "Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy" which was publ...

Carlo Carpenter is currently a doctoral fellow of the History & Culture program at Drew University in New Jersey, specializing in modern European literary and cultural history. His current dissertation work examines Thomas De Quincey's Sketches of Life and Manners and the author's career as a writer for the periodical press within the early Victorian literary marketplace. www.linkedin....

Christian Giudice  is an academic researcher, focusing, among other subjects, on fin de siècle occultism in France and Italy, the development of post-Crowley Thelema, and the link between cinema and occultism. A Ph. D. scholar at Gothenburg University, he holds a BA in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University and an MA in Western Esotericism from Exeter University. He has published academic artic...

This episode I'm joined once again by Todd McGowan to discuss his book Enjoyment Right & Left alongside discussions on politics, Trump, Biden, and psychoanalysis. Book link: https://www.sublationmedia.com/product-page/enjoyment-left-right --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/...

Professor Paul Bishop is the author of multiple books on the work of Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, alongside other texts on analytical psychology and German thought. In this episode we discuss Bishop's Discourses of Philology and Theology in Nietzsche: From the “Untimelies” to The Anti-Christ The book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-42272-0 --- Become part of the Hermitix c...

Vincent Blok is associate professor in Philosophy of Technology, Business Ethics, and Responsible Innovation, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. In this episode we discuss his recently released paper Philosophy of Technology in the Digital Age: The datafication of the World, the homo virtualis, and the capacity of technological innovations to set the World free. Link: https://www.academia.edu...

Steven E. Knepper is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at the Virginia Military Institute. In this episode we discuss the work of Gabriel Marcel, alongside the philosophy of embodiment and being. Knepper's book: https://sunypress.edu/Books/W/Wonder-... Previous episode with Knepper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfze7X6DjLo&ab_channel=Herm...

Review of Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity by Peter Kingsley --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDD...

James Maffie is principal lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. Maffie's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aztec-Philosophy-Understanding-World-Motion/dp/160732461X --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ww...

Joseph Acquisto is Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books. In this episode we discuss his book Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France (2021). Book link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-61014-2 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support Her...

Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph. D in German literature. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1994. Dowden has published on German literatu...

James Machin is a writer and researcher and coeditor of Faunus, the journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen. He has published work in journals including Textual Practice, and taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Royal College of Art. Machin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JFMachin16 Tim Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at ARU, and a writer of supernatural fiction. He...

Aaron J. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany.  His main research focuses on the History of Esotericism, the History and Philosophy of Science, Sacred Space and Architecture, modern German Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies. In this episode we discuss weird fiction. French's edited collection: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Azat...

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss collapse, history, consciousness, cyclicity, and the work of Spengler and Toynbee. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchand...

Kevin Hart  (editor) grew up in London and Brisbane, and now lives in the USA. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Flame Tree: Selected Poems (2002). He has won both the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Awards for Poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award for a sustained contribution to Australian poetry. His published works include studies of Jacques Derrida, A.D. Hope, Samuel Jo...

In this episode I'm joined by Bryan Counter to discuss Cormac McCarthy's novel Outer Dark, alongside discussions on Schopenhauer, Plato, and Nihilism. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠https://www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠ Donations: - ⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠http:...

Sebastjan Vörös is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests encompass philosophy of science, epistemology, phenomenology, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Podobe neupodobljivega (The Images of the Unimaginable; KUD Logos & University of Ljubljana Press 2013, 2015), in which he investigates the phenome...

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss John Gilbert's book The Tree of Spirit: Lessons on Tarot, Cabala, and the Spiritual Path . Book link: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/tree-of-spirit/95193 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.pa...

A review of Philip K Dick's book 'VALIS', alongside discussion on Dickean Gnosticism. PKD Gnostic site: https://dickiangnosticism.wordpress.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠...