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 Max Stirner, Rudolf Steiner, and Anarchism. Paper link: https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/137451 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter -...

Gary Joseph Lachman, also known as Gary Valentine, is an American writer and musician. He came to prominence in the mid-1970s as the bass guitarist for rock band Blondie. Since the 1990s, Lachman has written full-time, often about mysticism and occultism. In this episode, we discuss his book Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way. Book link: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/maurice-nicoll --- --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter -...

James Maffie is principal lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. Images site: http://www.famsi.org Maffie's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aztec-Philosophy-Understanding-World-Motion/dp/160732461X Previous discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLi2f452GNo&ab_channel=HermitixPodcast --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠  / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠   Support...

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 Johnson, and Maurice Blanchot, and a translation of the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti. In this...

Review of The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Support Hermitix:Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLKEthereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Edward J. Matthews teaches philosophy, writing, and communications in the School for Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, Canada. He is also a part-time lecturer and instructor at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University. His most recent publications include Arts & Politics of the Situationist International 1957-1972: Situating the Situationists (Lexington Books, 2021) and Guy Debord’s Politics of Communication: Liberating...

Review of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.Greer's website: https://www.ecosophia.net/Greer's astrology patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgreer Greer's books: https://bookshop.org/contributors/john-michael-greer-dcc85fd9-cfd4-4940-b35a-a6252d57e3cc---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/HermitixpodcastSupport Hermitix:Patreon -...

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Renée Bergland is professor of literature and creative writing at Simmons University. She is the author of Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics and The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects. In this episode we discuss her book Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science. Book link: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691235288/natural-magic ---Become part of the Hermitix...

Review of The Fire Sermon by Darren Allen Book link: https://expressiveegg.org/portfolio/thefiresermon/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Jakob Lusensky is a Jungian analyst working in Berlin. Jakob's site: https://www.psychoanalystinberlin.com/ Jakob's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast... Podcast listeners can pre-order a copy of the book 'C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity' for a special 20% discount with the coupon code facetoface2024! on the publisher ⁠Chiron Publications’s website⁠. It will be shipped immediately. The book is also available as a pre-order on ⁠Amazon⁠. Those orders there will be...

Steven E. Knepper is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at the Virginia Military Institute. Rob Wyllie is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. In this episode we discuss their recently co-authored (with Ethan Stoneman) book Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction. Book link: https://www.wiley.com/en-ae/Byung-Chul+Han%3A+A+Critical+Introduction-p-9781509560998 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix...

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He served as a Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,...

​Erik Butler translates literature and scholarship from French, German, and other European languages. He also writes on cultural history. In this episode we discuss his book The Devil and His Advocates Butler's site: https://erikbutler.weebly.com/about.html Book link: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-devil-and-his-advocates --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon -...

Review of The Conductor and Other Stories by Jean FerryBook link: https://wakefieldpress.com/products/the-conductor-other-tales---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Peter D. Harrison FAHA (born 1955) is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. In this episode we discuss his book Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age. Book link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/some-new-world/300E90A9C1F983C06D4859F2BD365474 --- --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter -...

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 'Jung and the Epic of Transformation Volume 1, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” and the Grail as Transformation'. Book link: https://chironpublications.com/shop/jung-and-the-epic-of-transformation-volume-1-wolfram-von-eschenbachs-parzival-and-the-grail-as-transformation/ Image: Parsifal...

Review of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Tim is Junior Research Fellow in Political Theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Researcher Director at the "Laudato Si' Research Institute", a new institute conducting academic research in the field of ecology and social change. He is also an ordained Priest in the Church of England. In this episode we discuss the work of William Golding. ---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠Support Hermitix:Patreon -...

Review of The Golden Ass by Apuleius Goodreads review mentioned (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80080.The_Golden_Ass#CommunityReviews (top review, Bill Kerwin) --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address:...

Alice Gibson has a PhD in ‘Philosophical Fables as Ecological Tools for Resisting Environmental Catastrophe within The Anthropocene,’ with a focus on Giacomo Leopardi, at Kingston University. Previously, she worked on the Special Collections team at The National Archives. In this episode, we discuss her book The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis. Book link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethics-of-giacomo-leopardi-9781350298668/ ---Become part of the...

Review of Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Book link: https://www.andotherstories.org/sweet-days-discipline/ (Thumbnail photographer site: https://parallel-aesthetics.com/category/gallery/) --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠  / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠   Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠  www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-... Bitcoin Donation Address:...

Joshua Buhs is scholar of the overlap of politics, biology, and ecology in twentieth-century America, Joshua Blu Buhs has written articles that have appeared in Isis, Environmental History, The World of Genetics, and Journal of the History of Biology, In this episode we discuss Charles Fort and the Forteans. Book link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo214839745.html Buh's blog: http://www.joshuablubuhs.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter -...