Esoteric Reading's guest appearances

Esoteric Reading

Politics and International Relations Podcasts

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Chris Brennan

David Miller

Peter Adamson

Jason BeDuhn

John Mearsheimer

Justin Rogers

Martin Ceadel

Gavin Williams

Mark Philp

Michael Williams

Christopher Gill

Richard Seaford

Wouter Hanegraaff

Ælius Aristides

John Dillon

OwlTail

We discuss aspects of the esoteric found in two distinct sources – Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and Plotinus' own writings – and think through them. The esoteric Platonist exegete meets the late pagan holy man; are they the same person?

We discuss aspects of the esoteric found in two distinct sources – Porphyry's <em>Life of Plotinus</em> and Plotinus' own writings – and think through them. The esoteric Platonist exegete meets the late pagan holy man; are they the same person?

The Esoteric Plotinus, Part I: Philosophic Silence and Esoteric Reading

Clement stays esoteric. We examine the esoteric wisdom-lineages constructed by Clement, how he reads them, in the context of how he hides his reading of them. Plus, there seems to have been some genuine, contemporary esotericism going on in early Christianity.

Lifting the Veil: Esoteric Reading in Clement’s Stromateis

'The Politics of Interpretation and The Interpretation of Politics' conference (23rd to 24th Sep 2011, organised by Jens Olesen): final talk.  (This does not include Stanley Rosen's talk on 'Strauss's Hermeneutics'.). (Chair: Dr Michael L. Frazer, Harvard)  Professor David Weinstein (Wake Forest/Leipzig): Using and Abusing the Canon Professor James Connelly (Hull): The Biter Bit, The Writer Writ: Some Straussian Ironies.

Strauss and Esoteric Reading (abridged) 