S3 E37: Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

In this lecture, 11th in the 2017 series, I discuss the giants of existentialism, a philosophically-grounded psychological position positing (1) that psychopathology or mental illness/distress is built into Being itself and (2) that the adoption of responsibility through action is the appropriate response. - Thanks to ...

S3 E37: Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)2021-01-15T15:46:51-05:00

S3 E29: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)

--From: 2014 Personality Lecture 13: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, perhaps the greatest Russian author of the twentieth century, was an Orthodox Christian existentialist, a direct descendant of Dostoevsky's thinking, and a man who took a mighty axe to the terrible tangled roots of communist totalitarianism. ...

S3 E29: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)2020-11-01T10:51:44-05:00

Maps of Meaning: Suggested Readings & Russian Translation

In 1999 Routledge published my book,  Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. It was the results of more than fifteen years of work -- thousands of hours of obsessive thinking and writing. It was my attempt to deal with the aftermath of Nietzsche's pronouncement of the Death Of God ...

Maps of Meaning: Suggested Readings & Russian Translation2018-03-12T14:00:44-04:00

Book List

Many people have written to me asking what they should read to properly educate themselves. Here is a list of books that I found particularly influential in my intellectual development. I wrote number thirteen, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. It was published in 1999. It was heavily ...

Book List2019-05-06T14:24:23-04:00
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