Modern Philosophy Audio & Video

These are the 60 lectures from the Teaching Company course The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 2nd Edition, featuring principal lecturers Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff.

LearnOutLoud.com presents the Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Podcast. Born in 1803, Emerson was renowned during the mid 19th century as a philosopher, writer, public orator, naturalist, and spiritual trailblazer.

The Existentialism in Literature and Film course, taught by professor Hubert L. Dreyfus, cuts right to the roots of existentialist thought, looking at the works of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, and examining Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov in depth.

Cozy up by the fireplace with this free version of Bertrand Russell's classic 1945 book The History Of Western Philosophy.

Psychologist William James now stands as one of the true intellectual titans to come out of late 19th century America. With The Will to Believe, first published in 1896, he argues that it is defendable to adopt a certain belief without prior evidence of its truth.

Frankl’s assertion that “the will to meaning” is the basic motivation for human life has forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering.

Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold....

One of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, Being and Time is both a systematization of the existential insights of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and a radicalization of Husserl's phenomenological account of intentionality.

In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values, arguing that most people are simply mistaken about the relationship between morality and the rest of human knowledge.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond.