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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
Jiang combines Homer, playwrights, and philosophers into a model of a new human mind: empathy and imagination, inner debate and perspective, reason and reflection.
"...things together, Homer created the capacity for empathy and imagination. The playwright created the capacity for inner debate and perspective. The philosophers created the..."
"...was what went astray of it far more than most successful playwrights. And I chose Macbeth in part because this is a relatively rare..."
"...some of them say so. But Shakespeare gradually became the greatest playwright in English. I don't think from his very first plays, you could..."
"...homer was a bard poet but then heavy influence on the playwrights okay the play the three big players of course are israeli sophocles..."
"...not read euboides you must read euboides one of the greatest playwrights in human history so he wrote uh the play the back high..."
"...a very famous quote from Oscar Wilde, who is an English playwright, novelist, humorist. And he said, America is the only country that went..."
"...to focus on one example that distinguishes Shakespeare from all other playwrights. So the example I want to use is Hamlet. Hamlet, the story..."
"...Italian language that is spoken today. Um Shakespeare again was a playwright. He wrote to entertain and entertain such I mean it's very offensive..."
"...market for theater. There are dozens and dozens of really talented playwrights in London, in England, who are producing wonderful works. So he's just..."
"...It was the highlight of the community to pick the best playwright for that year. It was the greatest honor. It's like winning the..."
"...of the triumph, theater. Right? Every Greek wanted to be a playwright."
"...people who are most admired are the poets, Homer and the playwrights. In the Jewish tradition, the people who are most admired are the..."
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
The lecture begins with Canada's immigration crisis and ends with a theory of Western collapse.
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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