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History of Philosophy Audio Archive#160b - The Meaning of History (2 of 2): Darren Staloff on Arnold Toynbee, R. G. Collingwood, Positivism, Arthur Danto, Fernand Braudel, Poststructuralism, and William McNeill's “Plagues and People”PART 1 (HoPAA #160a):https://open.spotify.com/episode/5taLk6nbSkUZ3kGgRIgoSk?si=7724226c6b1042e1Come join my Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonLearn more about Professor Darren Staloff's Work (Yes, he's still alive…)https://hamilton.center.ufl.edu/people/darren-staloff/This series was originally titled "The Search for a Meaningful Past" and is available on YouTube.Chapters:(00:00:00) Intro(00:01:12) Arnold Toynbee and World Historical Speculation(00:47:26) R. G. Collingwood “The Idea of History”(01:33:36) Positivist Historiography(02...
2025-04-056h 11
History of Philosophy Audio Archive#160a - The Meaning of History (1 of 2): Darren Staloff on Philosophical Approaches to History, Eliade, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and the Search for a Universal History of HumanityOriginally titled “The Search for a Meaningful Past”YouTube Playlist:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGCfeEu2DRR4_Px-vrIfyPRkmzaDbmyf&si=xa1Cw7i66We6QoXRCheck out Dr. Darren Staloff's Work:https://hamilton.center.ufl.edu/people/darren-staloff/Support this work on Patreon:https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreonNB: The chapter on Mircea Eliade has been already published on this channel as HoPAA #158.Chapters:(00:00:00)-Intro(00:00:36)-1.Philosophies, Theories, and Interpretations of Human History(00:43:56)-2.Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History of Cyclica...
2025-03-186h 05
History of Philosophy Audio Archive#158 - Mircea Eliade and the Cycles of Time: Darren Staloff on Comparative Mythology, Symbolic Archetypes, the History of Religion, Eliade's Religious Scholarship, and the Theophany of Profane EventsSuggestions for the show:williamengels@substack.comPatreon:https://www.patreon.com/HemlockPatreon-//-(00:00:00) - Intro(00:01:55) - Staloff on Eliade-//-Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/william-engels.bsky.socialDarren Staloff:https://hamilton.center.ufl.edu/people/darren-staloff/Mircea Eliade:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade
2025-02-2846 min
The Great AntidoteCara Rogers Stevens on Thomas Jefferson and SlaverySend us a textThomas Jefferson was a complicated figure. Essential to the start of our country and the university I attend, he is impossible to ignore. Yet, he held slaves, and at the same time said “all men are created equal.” What’s up with that?!Yet, we need to be able to talk about him. We also need to be able to acknowledge the contributions he has made to the world, while also acknowledging the flaws in his character and behavior. His legacy is complicated, and he was a complicated person. We all are. S...
2025-02-0750 min
The Great AntidoteYuval Levin on The American CovenantSend us a textEven though I hope you’ve been avoiding the election news like I have (as you would the plague), admittedly, it’s hard to do. It’s like someone is blasting it outside your window at 5 AM. Or like a billboard outside your front door that you can’t help but see every time you step outside. Bummer. Fortunately, AEI’s wonderful Yuval Levin joins us today to talk about the remedy to the plight of election season and America’s recent malaise (not to echo Jimmy Carter…): the American constitution. Now, I know, yo...
2024-09-1350 min
Религия и Общество - Religiolog035 Рождение атеизма. Религия в колониях США и Отцы Основатели. История атеизмаКак же произошло так что хомосапиенсы, которые тысячи лет привыкли жить рука об руку с религией, вдруг решили прервать свою связь с небесами, объявить бога мертвым и пришли к мысли о том что они сами способны определять смысл существования, определять что есть добро а что зло и в чем истина. Как западная цивилизация пришла к тому что ей не нужны боги которые ограничивают нашу свободу и навязывают некие абсурдные правила? Кто внушил нам, что переживания человека и его якобы свободная воля является основной ценностью во вселенной? Другими словами, как люди пришли к мысли что в этом огромном мире эмоции такого существа как человек возвелись в ранг чего-то святого и стали почитаться как мера всего? В этой лекции мы поговорим о том кто и когда основал первые колонии в Америке и почему отцы-оснаватели США горой стояли за отделение религии от государства. Затем мы поговорим о том как в этой среде появился организованный атеизм и гуманизм. И постараемся понять что мы сегодня можем сделать с этой информацией и какая от нее польза. При этом, основной тезис на который мы будем опираться заключается в том что Америка была основана светскими людьми, более того антиклерикалами, стоявшими в оппозиции к религии, такими были как минимум первые четыре президента США.БИБЛИОГРАФИЯ:• Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1969, 1998.• Gordon Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, Penguin Press (New York), 2006.• Darren Staloff, The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts, Oxford University Press (1997).• Blankholm, Joseph, Making the American Secular: An Ethnographic Study of Organized Nonbelievers and Secular Activists in the United States, Columbia University, 2015.• Campbell David E. and Robert D. Putnam, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.• Jeffry H. Morrison, The Political Philosophy of the American Founders / https://www.c-span.org/video/?430660-...• How Religious Were the Founding Fathers? - Gordon Wood - • How Religious Were the Founding Fathe... • Baylor ISR: J. Gordon Melton- CESNUR (June 4-7, 2014) - • Baylor ISR: J. Gordon Melton- CESNUR ... • Gordon Stewart Wood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_...
2023-02-0425 min
The Great AntidoteDarren Staloff on the American FoundingSend us a textDarren Staloff is a history professor at the City College of New York and the author of two books: Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding and The Making of the American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts. He talks to us today about the ideas at the core of our Constitution, the people who fought for it, and the results of those political conflicts. What is so special Want to explore more?Louis Michael Seidman on the Constitution, an EconTalk podcast.Ma...
2022-09-3054 min
Nèg Mawon Podcast[Scholar Series - Ep. #10] "Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives." A Conversation with Dr. Cécile AccilienThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti’s complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Listen as Prof. Accilien makes broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean. Other contributors in this book provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences. Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and hi...
2022-02-1246 min
The Future in ContextEarly Republic Was Stress Tested for Times Like Ours (Ep. 38)Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson and the struggle for a more perfect union. America's consciousness is indelibly shaped by the competing legacies of three distinct personalities: a fast-talking New Yorker, a quintessential Yankee, and a Virginia Squire. In his book, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding, historian Darren Staloff explores the social, intellectual, and personal dynamics that shaped these men and helped define the Nation.
2022-02-1120 min
2022-01-2858 min
Listening to America#1479 Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson with Darren StaloffClay is joined by Darren Staloff, the author of Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding. In this incisive book, Staloff writes that America owes its guiding political traditions to three Founding Fathers whose lives embodied the collision of European enlightenment with the founding of America. You can order Clay's new book at Amazon, Target, Barnes and Noble, or by contacting your independent bookstore. The Language of Cottonwoods is out now through Koehler Books. Mentioned on this episode: Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding by Darren Staloff...
2022-01-2554 min
Audio BookThomas Jefferson – American Visionaryhttps://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/audibooktest584847/Thomas+Jefferson+-+American+Visionary/Thomas+Jefferson+-+American+Visionary.mp3
From The Teaching Company’s The Great Courses Modern History series. Thomas Jefferson : American Visionary
(12 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
on audiotape with course booklets
Taught by Darren Staloff
City College of New York
For those fans of Professor Staloff, whose Teaching Company courses have almost entirely fallen out of print, comes this in-depth course on the most important of the Founding Fathers.
Course titles
1. The Allure and Challenge of Thomas Jefferson
2. The Mi...
2017-06-1700 min
Absorb Your Day With A Next-Level Full Audiobook.Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition by The Great Courses, Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas KellnerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/162119to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
Series: The Great Courses: Intellectual History
Author: The Great Courses, Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas Kellner
Narrator: Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas Kellner
Format: mp3
Length: 43 hrs and 41 mins
Release date: 07-08-13
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 943 ratings
Genres: Greek & Roman
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2013-07-087h 41
The James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 15: “A Second Founding and a More Perfect Union” with Darren Staloff, Part 2 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 2 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “A Second Founding and a More Perfect Union.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E15.mp3
2012-05-2900 minThe James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 14: “A Second Founding and a More Perfect Union” with Darren Staloff, Part 1 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 1 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “A Second Founding and a More Perfect Union.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E14.mp3
2012-05-0800 minThe James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 11: “Securing the Fruits of Liberty” with Darren Staloff, Part 2 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 2 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “Securing the Fruits of Liberty.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E11.mp3
2012-03-2500 minThe James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 10: “Securing the Fruits of Liberty” with Darren Staloff, Part 1 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 1 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “Securing the Fruits of Liberty.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E10.mp3
2012-02-0500 minThe James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 06: “From Protest to Revolution,” with Darren Staloff, Part 2 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 2 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “From Protest to Revolution.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E06.mp3
2011-11-1700 minThe James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 05: “From Protest to Revolution” with Darren Staloff, Part 1 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 1 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “From Protest to Revolution.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E05.mp3
2011-11-0200 minThe James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 02: Darren Staloff, “Creeds and Commitments,” Part 2 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 2 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “Creeds and Commitments — Republicanism and Liberalism in the American Revolution.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E02.mp3
2011-09-1500 minThe James Madison SeminarSeason 01, Episode 01: Darren Staloff, “Creeds and Commitments,” Part 1 of 2Darren Staloff is the 2006-07 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. We present Part 1 of his Summer 2011 lecture to New Jersey social studies educators, “Creeds and Commitments — Republicanism and Liberalism in the American Revolution.”
http://www.archive.org/download/TheJamesMadisonSeminar/JamesMadisonSeminar_S01E01.mp3
2011-09-0500 min