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Michael Hardt, the author of Multitude and Empire talks about love, how can love function as a political concept, why love, the proper and improper ways love has functioned politically, love as activism, and evil and its relationship to love

political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition, the polis experience (Plato, Aristotle), the sovereign state (Machiavelli, Hobbes), constitutional government (Locke), democracy (Rousseau, Tocqueville), the way in which different political philosophies have given expression to various forms of political institutions and our ways of life are examined

eight guest lectures on video (explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas, Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant detail, place, poetics, narrative and how photography can inform design and planning, among other issues): readings, projects, course download

covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners (Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Bishop, Frost), additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, Harlem Renaissance, Diverse methods of literary criticism (historical, biographical, and gender criticism): download

theoretical analysis of religion as a cultural phenomenon, functional relationships between religion, culture, society and the individual: Anthropological Viewpoints about Religion, Diversity and Unity in the World's Religions, The Psychology of Religion, Religious Myths and Symbols, Religion as Expressive Culture, Language, Belief, and Religion, Religious Ritual, Religious Social Organization, Religion and Society, Religious Adaptation and Change, quizzes

science of nonviolence mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi, Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., emphasis on ideal of principled nonviolence and reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense

Videos and video clips (over 360) of lectures, sessions, and interviews at EGS: Videos, Favorites, Playlists, Groups

examines issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality, possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered: class sessions, download

Collection of videoed lectures, discussions etc on science and philosophy

attempts to understand the linkages between the massive upsurge of urban cinema in Latin America and what has been termed the "power geometry" of global capitalism