Podcasts and Interviews
ACADEMIA COMMENTARIES
In-depth with Academia (Richard Price) – William Franke on Agamben and the Logic of Exception
Academia Fireside Chat on “Liberal Arts Education Worldwide Unlimited Inc.: The Unspeakable Basis of Comparative Humanities”
INTERVIEWS
The philosophy of the unsayable and apophatic discourses with William Franke
A comparative exploration of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Bhagavad Gita (substack.com)
Podcast: Divine Comedy and Bhagavad Gita, with William Franke and Jayashankar Krishnamurty – Episode 93 • Cosmic Dancer – Lo-Fi Music / Hi-Fi Faith (spotify.com)
PODCASTS
Podcast for Dante Society of America, Canto per Canto, “Scripture as Theophany and Virtual Reality: Paradiso 18”: William Franke and Jacob Abell
Podcast with Kevin Hart: On the Way – Talking about God. Brisbane, Australia
INTERVIEWS with CHRIS BENDA
“Authorial Intentions”: Book Interviews. Conversations with Christ Benda, Divinity Librarian, Vanderbilt Divinity School, on recent books by William Franke
“Authorial Intentions” Conversations on individual books with Chris Benda:
“Authorial Intentions”: The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante
“Authorial Intentions”: Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’
“Authorial Intentions”: A Philosophy of the Unsayable
“Authorial Intentions”: Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
“Authorial Intentions”: A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Literature in the Tradition of the Humanities
“Authohttp://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/faculty-staff/interviews/williamfranke03082018.mp3rial Intentions”: Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions Without Borders
“Authorial Intentions”: On The Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking
Benda Interviews News Release
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