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November 9, 2006
UC Berkeley on iTunes. This is rather fantastic. Loads and loads of lectures and such from UC Berkeley available to download for free on iTunes. I’m going to start with Professor Hubert Dreyfus’ Existentialism in Literature and Film. That should keep me busy for a while. (via)

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft will include free downloads as part of their Zune library.
It is mind-bendingly brilliant, but deep … be prepared to read Kierkegaard, Brothers Karamazov, and some Nietzsche thrown in for good measure … you won’t know what he’s talking about unless you keep up with the source material. Having said that, he’s probably the foremost interpreter of our day on these books, so it really is worth the effort.