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Paintings - The Lascaux Cave Paintings 01.05.2021 27:29 ↓

The Lascaux Cave Paintings belong to the Paleolithic Age and are some of the oldest paintings in the world. 

Authenticity - Camus' The Stranger 24.04.2021 28:39 ↓

Season 5  Authenticity - The Stranger is about a young man who commits a murder without motive or explanation.

Carl Jung and Rollo May on the power of words and symbols! 19.04.2021 10:22 ↓

Oh my, how much of our horizon do we lose when we impoverish our language! 

Authenticity - Alice Munro 17.04.2021 25:28 ↓

Season 5  Authenticity - Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer. 

Authenticity - Salinger's Catcher in the Rye 11.04.2021 31:48 ↓

Season 5  Authenticity - Catcher in the Rye is about a young adolescent seeking authenticity.

An ode to Dogs! 04.04.2021 10:00 ↓

For you dog lovers! 

Authenticity - Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man 03.04.2021 26:20 ↓

Season 5  Authenticity - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is about a young man who leaves his religion and his family to try to become an artist.

Authenticity - Bob Dylan 28.03.2021 27:00 ↓

Season 5  Authenticity - Bob Dylan is an American singer song-writer born in 1941.

Authenticity - Kafka's Metamorphosis 20.03.2021 26:37 ↓

Season 5  Authenticity - The Metamorphosis is about a traveling salesman who wakes up as an insect. 

Morality - Rousseau's Emile 15.03.2021 26:06 ↓

Season 4  Morality - Rousseau's Emile is about the education of a small child in nature.

Morality - Conrad's Heart of Darkness 06.03.2021 28:40 ↓

Season 4  Morality - In the Heart of Darkness the central character Marlow tells the story of his journey up the Congo River where he meets Kurtz, an ivory trader.

Morality - Gide's The Immoralist 28.02.2021 28:12 ↓

Gide's The Immoralist describes a confessional account of a man seeking the truth about his own nature.

Morality - Sophocles' Oedipus Rex 20.02.2021 29:57 ↓

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy about Oedipus, who is fated to kill his father and marry his mother.

Morality - The Story of Abraham and Isaac 13.02.2021 27:29 ↓

The story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis is about God's command to Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac.

Morality - Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment 06.02.2021 29:31 ↓

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's about a man who commits a murder and has to deal with his guilt.

Happiness - John Keats 30.01.2021 31:09 ↓

John Keats is a Romantic poet. In this episode, we discuss a letter he wrote in 1817 where he talked about something he called "Negative Capability".

Happiness - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby 24.01.2021 31:47 ↓

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

Happiness - Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus 16.01.2021 36:17 ↓

The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay about the absurd, published in 1942. 

Happiness - Tolstoy's Anna Karenina 10.01.2021 33:38 ↓

Anna Karenina is a story of love and adultery set against the background of aristocratic society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Happiness - Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus 02.01.2021 40:19 ↓

Epicurus’ Letter to Menoeceus is a brief summary of his philosophy of happiness, to his friend and disciple of the letter’s name. 

Happiness - Herodotus 29.12.2020 32:56 ↓

In The Histories , Herodotus tells the story of the encounter between King Croesus and Solon. They discuss what it means to be happy. 

Love - Thomas Mann's Death in Venice 23.12.2020 30:04 ↓

Mann's  Death in Venice is about a great writer who visits Venice and becomes obsessed with a beautiful youth.

Love - Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov 19.12.2020 27:38 ↓

Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is a story of patricide, and it centers around the clashes of values and world views of the Karamazov family.

Love - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 09.12.2020 27:35 ↓

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , Frankenstein sets out to create a person in what is one of the most unusual scientific experiments ever conceived.