Essays Podcaster

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Brought to you by Loughborough University's Anarchism Research Group (ARG), Anarchist Essays presents leading academics, activists, and intellectuals exploring themes in anarchist theory, history, and practice. For more on the ARG, please visit https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research/arg/ and follow us on Twitter at @arglboro

Short essays to cultivate thoughtful, faithful living through substantive reflection on issues relevant and timely for people in Anabaptist churches and of broad interest to other Christians and seekers. You can find the full text at EssaysForKingJesus.org

Dieser Podcast bietet Essays über aktuelle und überzeitliche Themen aus Philosophie und Theologie aus katholischer Sicht. Dazu gehören kritische Analysen moderner Entwicklungen in Kirche und Gesellschaft sowie Einsichten aus Glaube, Vernunft und Offenbarung, von denen ich überzeugt bin, dass sie das nötige Hintergrundwissen abgeben, um sich ein zeitgeistunabhängiges Urteil bilden zu können.

This podcast aims to provide brief and well-researched biographies of famous and influential personalities from all walks of life, and essays on interesting subjects ranging from literature and music to life and law and everything in between and beyond. I hope to help anyone who’s interested in learning about great men and women who have changed the world for good and have left an indelible mark in the history of mankind, while at the same time expressing my views on topics that pique my cur ...

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Join us as we read aloud fascinating, meticulously researched essays penned by academics who are experts in their fields.

Stories and essays by Willa Cather - Summary by david wales

I serien følges essayet gennem 400 år startende med den franske adelsmand Michel de Montaigne og frem til nutidens danske essayister.

News, essays, and talk about issues affecting the transgender, intersex, and genderqueer community.

The Three Essays on Religion were written at different times during Mill's life, and only published after his death. The first two, 'Nature' and 'The Utility of Religion' date from the 1850s - the period between the publication of 'The Principles of Political Economy' and 'On Liberty'. The third longer essay, 'Theism' was written between 1868 and 1870. The three essays were published posthumously in 1874. (Summary by Justin Brett)

Host Shawntae Arnette (Geaux Ann Gibson) offers Unsolicited yet Informed Opinions on the multiple culture groups they exist in that make America Society. Keep up with Geauxie on social media at: @GeauxAnnGibson on All platforms.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. (Summary extr ...

Every episode, I sit in my closet to discuss and delve into random, yet interesting topics that pop up in my head. You're never going to know what each episode will be about, so stick around!

Audio recordings of published long stories / novels in simple Sanskrit (Samskrutam) - For the Sanskrit students

Covering the 2019 Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival

Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned during the mid 19th century as a philosopher, writer, public orator, naturalist and spiritual trailblazer. The essays collected for this podcast represent some of the best examples of this great American thinker's work. For more educational audio and video, please visit www.learnoutloud.com.

The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For example, the first essay, "Tool or Man?" looks at two views of man. One is that of strength as the provider of security. The other is that of aesthete, as an enthusiast of the arts or academics or religion. In our culture, provider of security is the winner every time. Man as a source of multiple talents cannot be allowed. As the author frames the argument, " ...

Expat essays from a British family in Sweden

"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position. This collection of short stories covers a wide range of Twain's interests: the serious, the political and the iron ...

“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass beads or frost-work but the solidest thing we know....” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the ties of friendship in one of his essays titled Friendship, more than a hundred years ago. This and other interesting essays are included in Essays First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the distinguished American philosopher and writer. Apart from writing, he was also a very gifted and popular p ...

This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theory moved from free market capitalism, to government intervention within the precepts of Utilitarianism, and finally to Socialism.

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Unto This Last is an important work of political economic though that influenced Gandhi, among others. (Hugh McGuire/Wikipedia)

Among the many ideas explored in this book are beauty, gardens, honor and reputation, cunning, nobility, friendship and many others. Authored by the man who is credited with having invented the essay form in English, The Essays of Francis Bacon was written over an extended period, ranging from the mid sixteenth century. They were compiled in a single edition in 1597 and later re-written, enlarged and added to in other editions in 1612 and 1625. However, their compelling and insightful qualit ...

Throughout the 1920s the Common University provided a free and ready source of education to the working classes of England through various lecture series and the distribution of educative pamphlets in the East End. At the time it renowned as a philanthropic exercise noted more for its good intentions than its practice of asking for lecturers' credentials. In the mid 1930s it shut down amid a small furore over the nonsense it was teaching. It was assumed by all involved that that would be the ...