Episodes
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This is our four-hour course on how to do your own research. You should download our course slides and reference pages here:SlidesReference Page
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The class discusses the utility of the idea of Western Civilization.
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In this episode, we return to the theme of the West in war propaganda, focusing on the ideas of JRR Tolkien and Edward Gibbon in modern war propaganda.
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Post-colonial theory is largely a theory of and about the idea of Western Civilization. In this episode, we discuss the plurality of opinions and thinkers in this academic movement and outline some common positions.
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We discuss the influence of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and its influence on the political movements of his day and those of the present, and how the idea of Aryanism interacts with ideas of "the West."
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The Enlightenment was a global event that had peculiar and specific effects on the West.
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We discuss the Crusades from an ecological and intellectual rather than military perspective and tease out emerging features of the West in the Middle Ages.
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We discuss the emergence of "Western Civilization" as a religious idea developed near Paris in the High Middle Ages.
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We discuss the competition between the Greeks and Phoenicians in colonizing the Mediterranean of the Axial Age.
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We begin with the earliest texts of the Western Canon: the Iliad, Odyssey and Histories.
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This is the first part of our thirteen-part course on the history of the concept of Western Civilization.
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Some people mistakenly call Wokeness "cultural Marxism" because it organizes the world into a binary. But that binary isn't Marxian at all. It is far more like the Kingdom of Peace/Kingdom of War Islamic idea or, closer to the mark, Manicheism's Sons of Light/Sons of Darkness.
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This lecture was requested by one of the students and caused the remaining lectures to be reorganized. It is the only lecture that does not contain a religious history component. Instead, it engages with movements in the present that are oppositional to Wokeness, radical feminism, black conservative intellectuals from the Thomas Sowell tradition and, in Canada, convoyists.
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