A Gathering Place

Over the last few months our list of podcasts has been greatly expanded. This post is intended to solicit recommendations that we can add to the growing list. Following the lead of Dreyfus and his Philosophy 6 & 7 courses the concentration of podcasts listed deal with philosophy, literature, art, and film. Please use the "comments" for this post to recommend any podcasts that you think would make good additions. This would also be a good place to review any of the podcasts we have listed or start a dialogue concerning them.

Dreyfus and Kelly start a blog

Professors Dreyfus and Kelly have started a blog associated with a book they are currently writing titled "All Things Shining." Here is an excerpt from blog's first entry:

How did we go from the intense and meaningful lives of Homer’s world to the sadness and indecision, perhaps even the nihilism, of the current age? And how can we find the shining things once more?

Bert Dreyfus and I are just completing a book on this topic. It is called All Things Shining: Reading the Western Canon To Find Meaning in a Secular Age. As we put the finishing touches on the manuscript this summer, and as we prepare for courses on the topic at Berkeley and Harvard this fall, we hope to use this blog to lay out some of the themes of the project and to generate discussion among a wider group of folks.

You can find it at: http://allthingsshiningbook.wordpress.com/