“Glimpses Into Existence” was a series of 12 monthly lectures which I provided by invitation at the historic Kingston Public Library in New York during 2014. We’ll be adding more materials here over time – but for the present, here are the video recordings of the sessions
- Lecture 1: What is Existentialism?
- Lecture 2: “Lessons of Socrates and Abraham – Søren Kierkegaard
- Lecture 3: Underground Men, Inquisitors, and Saints – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Lecture 4: Overcoming Nihilism After The Death of God – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lecture 5: Poetry and Solitude – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Lecture 6: Everything is Possible. . . Even God – Lev Shestov
- Lecture 7: Trials, Castles, Insects, and Other Horrors: Franz Kafka
- Lecture 8: In Quest of the Human, and of Being – Martin Heidegger
- Lecture 9: Does My Freedom Make You Nauseous? — Jean-Paul Sartre
- Lecture 10: Becoming The Other — Simone de Beauvoir
- Lecture 11: Revolt in the Face of the Absurd – Albert Camus
- Lecture 12: Existentialist Faith, Hope and Charity – Gabriel Marcel