261 episodes
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) Robert Harrison
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- Society & Culture
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4.7 • 396 Ratings
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Entitled Opinions is a literary talk show on Stanford University Radio, KZSU, in which Professor Robert Harrison interviews guests about issues that range from literature and philosophy to politics and sports.
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Custodianship of the Earth with Thomas Woltz
November 18, 2021-- A conversation with Thomas Woltz about landscape architecture.
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Robert Harrison on Great Narrative Endings
August 23, 2021-- A monologue by Robert Harrison.
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Aqsa Ijaz on Rumi
August 12, 2021-- A conversation with Aqsa Ijaz about the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi.
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What is Matter? with Bryan Cheong
August 5, 2021-- A conversation with Brian Cheong about the laws of thermodynamics.
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Mark C. Taylor on Silence
July 29, 2021-- A conversation with Professor Mark C. Taylor on the topic of his new book: "Seeing Silence".
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What do Bridges do? With Thomas Harrison
July 22, 2021-- A conversation with Professor Thomas Harrison on the topic of his new book: "Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account".
Customer Reviews
Can Talk Heidegger or Jim Morrison and Always Interesting
I've learned quite a bit from this podcast. I've learned in listening to both the questions and the answers. Handles philisophical and artistic topics with understanding and inisght. The Hans Sluga interview right after the 2016 election was something I wish the nation could have heard or understood. And legendary last interview with Richard Rorty.
A Rare Gem!
Entitled Opinion feeds your soul. Podcasts such as this one are becoming rarer and rarer in this world of crass consumerism
Eminently Listenable and Compelling Podcast.
Robert Harrison’s trenchant discussion of the beauty and meaning found in the literature of life’s deepest desires, nuanced needs (including their much richer and more complicated ordinariness) and often complex qualities, aspects, and distinctions, raise this podcast above most others.
His enthusiasm for the fun that’s found through interviews and reading great books belies a concern for what’s missing amid the popularly political and intensely conflictual media discourse and provides a different picture from what we tend to think is the case.
Harrison’s captivatingly plain (and paradoxically simple) discussion of ideas and the importance books play in providing depth and meaning to our daily existence (as well as the permission to question what it all means) gives a sense and sort of corrective to the perspective and complex identity we hold of ourselves and the purpose of this all too human condition.
Simply put, it is an eminently listenable and compelling podcast.