History of Philosophy Audio Archive

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History of Philosophy Audio Archive

by William Engels

Curated lectures, interviews, and talks with philosophers, social scientists, and historians together in one place. Each week, we explore brand new research in history, economics, psychology, political science, philosophy, indigenous studies, and human rights while presenting the work of canonical scholars in a way that is accessible to newcomers while retaining interest for students and specialists. If you are an author in nonfiction or a scholar in the humanities/social sciences and are interested in being interviewed for the show please email me at williamengels@substack.com or @Bluesky.

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1

Hemlock #46 Congress: feat. Dr. Maya Kornberg - Citizens United, Steve Bannon, Jan 6, Gerrymandering, Watergate Babies & Her New Book: STUCK: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

1:32:19 Mar 18, 2026

2

#183: Tribute to Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) feat. Rick Roderick and Michael Sugrue

1:36:35 Mar 15, 2026

3

#182a - The Radiance of Perfection and the Mystic Ascent: Plotinus on the Good and the One, Plato's Symposium, The Myth of Psyche and Eros (Aphrodite), Socrates' Teacher Diotima, feat. Pierre Grimes

1:20:53 Mar 15, 2026

4

The Phoenix Program: PART ONE - ORIGINS

57:06 Mar 11, 2026

5

Hemlock #45: Hannah Arendt and Natality feat. Guillermo Zapata

1:35:27 Mar 4, 2026

6

Hemlock #44: Epictetus and the Stoics with Greg Sadler

2:01:43 Mar 1, 2026

7

#181 Facing Gaia: Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature by Bruno Latour, Gifford Lecture Series 2013

5:05:53 Feb 26, 2026

8

Hemlock #43 - Enframing the Future with Emma Stamm, Nuclear Weapons, AI, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology, Walter Benjamin, Fascism, Fantasy, and Simple Folk Tales

1:58:45 Feb 23, 2026

9

#180: Michael Parenti Tribute: The Darker Truths of Empire (November 2005)

1:11:36 Feb 20, 2026

10

#179 Martin Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology" (1954) Presented by Gregory Sadler, Enframing, Standing-Reserve, Aletheia, Aristotle's Four Causes, and the Destining of Revealing

2:24:30 Feb 7, 2026

11

Acid Communism: Philosopher Emma Stamm on Mark Fisher's Unfinished Manuscript, Capitalist Realism, the Slow Cancellation of the Future, Joe Rogan, Critical Theory, AI, and Life in Para-Academia

1:50:14 Jan 5, 2026

12

Capitalism's Invisible Army (CIA) - Bill Yarborough on MKUltra, Operation CHAOS, Nixon & the Plumbers, the 40 Committee, Operation Gladio, Paperclip Nazis, Stranger Things, and Healing from Torture

1:37:36 Jan 5, 2026

13

Carved In Stone: Matthew Davis on Mount Rushmore, Wounded Knee & Medals of Honor, Deadwood, the Lakota, Stone Mountain and the Klan, American Aesthetics, Custer, Whitman, Jackson, and the Black Hills

1:15:40 Jan 4, 2026

14

#178a David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 1 of 2)

6:34:13 Dec 22, 2025

15

#178b David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 2 of 2)

6:56:13 Dec 22, 2025

16

SAURON, INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir - Part 2: CEO Alex Karp, or Evil Genius Adult-Baby Demands New Cold War

1:44:54 Dec 16, 2025

17

SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir (feat. the Bad Role Models) Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House

1:51:12 Dec 12, 2025

18

Escape from the TechnoSphere feat. Jacob Ward: Sam Altman, AI Girlfriends, Karp and Thiel, the Dubious Hobbits of Palantir, Jevon's Paradox, and The Unstoppable Onslaught of Clanker-Made Slop

46:10 Dec 9, 2025

19

Nuclear Cascade with Jack Kennedy - Nukes in South Korea, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, New Cold War with China, Russia/Ukraine, Deterrence, Iran's/Iraq's WMDs, NeoCons, and Missile Defense

1:27:47 Nov 24, 2025

20

Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna - Graham St John on McKenna's Life and Work, Psilocybin and DMT, Psychedelic History, Alchemy, the Experiment at La Chorrera, +the Eschaton

1:13:10 Nov 23, 2025

21

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Part 1)

44:27 Nov 20, 2025

22

Goethe's Faust - Michael Sugrue on the Worldly Gospel, German Romanticism, Intellect and Theology, Mephistopheles and the Spirit of Negation, Gretchen's Eternal Feminine, and Last Minute Salvation

41:30 Nov 19, 2025

23

The Lessons of History feat. Dr. Roy Casagranda - Henry Kissinger, the Iraq War, Esoteric Platonism and the Neocons, Cycles in Political Power, Education Reform, Hiroshima, Anarchism, and State Power

1:59:12 Nov 9, 2025

24

What is Existentialism? - Bert Dreyfus on Sartre, Heidegger, Pascal, Camus, Kierkegaard, Philosophy's Struggle with Christianity, Dostoevsky, and the Road to Authenticity (HoPAA #176)

1:02:39 Nov 9, 2025

25

The "Ceasefire" in Gaza feat. Sabrina Jennings

1:13:30 Nov 9, 2025

26

The Ballroom feat. William Sanchez (Hemlock #34)

1:14:37 Nov 8, 2025

27

HEMLOCK HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: HAUNTOLOGY - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, Left Melancholia, the Arab Spring, Walter Benjamin, and the Slow Cancellation of the Future (H33)

1:00:48 Oct 31, 2025

28

A Skeleton Key to James Joyce: Mythologist Joseph Campbell on Irish Literature and Joyce's Novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake (HoPAA #175)

5:15:17 Oct 25, 2025

29

Dante's Divine Comedy: Professor Hubert Dreyfus on the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, Beatrice, Vergil, and the Beatific Vision (HoPAA #173e)

5:58:01 Oct 21, 2025

30

The Practical Value of Philosophy: Will Engels Interviewed by Roubin Thind on Education, Spirituality, Guerilla Media, US-China Relations, Blue Collar Intellectuals, the Origins of HoPAA (Hemlock #34)

57:40 Oct 21, 2025

31

The Gospel According to John: Hubert Dreyfus on the Logos, the Trinity, and the Ontological Transformations of Christianity (HoPAA #172d)

2:26:31 Oct 20, 2025

32

Magnolia (1999): A Love Letter - Paul Thomas Anderson's Greatest Film, Fate, Freemasons, Intergenerational Trauma, Pick Up Artists, Aimee Mann, and Why It's Not Going to Stop (Til' You Wise Up) BRM6b

1:26:06 Oct 14, 2025

33

Hemlock #32: Machines of Loving Grace - Palantir, Alex Karp, Alchemy and Science, Brute Force Mimetic Objects, Atomic Poetry, the Automation of Violence, and the Endless Empire of Perpetual Advantage

1:27:19 Oct 12, 2025

34

#174 - Dealing with Hungry Ghosts: Thích Nhất Hạnh on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Realizing Emptiness, Self-Compassion, and Living as a Transmission from Ancestors

19:59 Oct 11, 2025

35

#173 - The Myths of Capital: Michael Parenti on Rags to Riches Fables, Pacifying Propaganda, Wealth Pyramids and Perpetual Scarcity, Corporate Power, and the Socialist Response to the Ruling Ideology

59:11 Oct 11, 2025

36

BRM7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp

2:48:53 Oct 6, 2025

37

#172c - Vergil and the Roman Tradition: Bert Dreyfus' Complete Course on the Aeneid, Augustus Caesar, Roman Propaganda, The Fall of Troy, Dido and Carthage, the Rise of Empire, and Latin Poetic Myth

2:46:00 Oct 5, 2025

38

BRM6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking

2:39:58 Oct 1, 2025

39

Bad Role Models #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void

2:03:35 Sep 25, 2025

40

Mission Accomplished: A Documentary Doctors Retrospective - Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11, the War on Terror, Robert Fisk, Neocon Fear Bubbles, Saudi Connections, & Why It's All About The Petrodollar (DD8)

3:06:59 Sep 19, 2025

41

BRM4b: The HST Bonus Show - Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycle Crashes, and Finding the Edge

1:10:27 Sep 15, 2025

42

BRM4a: Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen - Fear and Loathing in the Sheriff's Office, Greedheads, Hatemongers, and Yellow-Eyed Hyenas, The Freak Power Ticket, Fat City, and the Death of the American Dream

2:06:23 Sep 15, 2025

43

172b - Aeschylus: Bert Dreyfus on Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Furies and the Eumenides, Pouring Out of Libations, Athenian Tragedy, and the Pessimism of the Greeks

7:31:47 Sep 11, 2025

44

DD7 - Judas and the Black Messiah: Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers, FBI/COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover, the Rainbow Coalition, MHCHAOS, MLK and Malcolm X, Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, and the CIA

1:50:13 Sep 9, 2025

45

#172a - The Odyssey: A Philosophical Analysis, Hubert Dreyfus on Artistic Worldmaking, the Attuning Gift of Greek Gods, Telemachus' Journey to Manhood, Autonomy and the Divine Inspiration

6:42:52 Sep 5, 2025

46

DD6 - 40 Years in Solitary: "Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3", Solitary Confinement, Torture, Jim Crow, Black Radicalism, Private Prisons, Prison Labor, and Mass Incarceration

1:15:52 Sep 2, 2025

47

DD5 Eichmann in Jerusalem: "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt" Banality of Evil, Between Past and Future, Totalitarianism in Democracy, K. Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, the Third Reich, Fascism

1:33:10 Sep 2, 2025

48

Consolatio #6: The Finest Threads that Bind the Truth - Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy on Free Will, Higher Intelligence, History and Eternity, Hope's Epitaph

48:13 Aug 25, 2025

49

Hemlock #31: McNamara's Cold War: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Bill Taubman on Vietnam, the Domino Theory, Khrushchev & Gorbachev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Tokyo Firebombing, Nuclear Abolition

1:37:55 Aug 23, 2025

50

The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (BRM #3, Explicit) with Mr. Richard - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, 50s Americana, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mr. Eddy, Now It's Dark

5:02:15 Aug 17, 2025

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