Leonard Grob is professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
John K. Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.
Together they have published a number of books, including Encountering the Stranger (2012), which focuses on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations; Losing Trust in the World (2017), a protest against torture; and most recently, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (Cascade, 2023).
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SOURCES MENTIONED:
Applebaum, Anne. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Buber, Martin. I and Thou.
Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After. 3 vols.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov.
Grob, Leonard, and John K. Roth. Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy.
———, eds. Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Hallie, Philip. In the Eye of the Hurricane: Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence.
OUTLINE:
(01:39) – Converging on the Holocaust
(11:40) – Dr. Roth’s roundtable 1: Charlotte Delbo, Anne Applebaum, Amanda Gorman
(15:01) – Dr. Roth’s roundtable 2: James Madison, Elie Wiesel, Albert Camus
(17:40) – Dr. Grob’s roundtable: (Plato’s) Socrates, Martin Buber, Charlotte Delbo
(23:29) – The beginnings of a friendship (and a book or two)
(31:45) – The Holocaust and contemporary dangers to American democracy
(35:03) – (Liberal) democracy as a verb, not a noun
(41:23) – Democracy and virtue
(49:44) – Democracy and division
(58:10) – Learning from the Holocaust era
(01:08:27) – MAGA and the 2024 election
(01:13:17) – The hurricane as political metaphor
Michael Morelli / Jacques Ellul between Barth and the Frankfurt School
David Artman / Christian Universalism, Pt. 2
David Artman / Christian Universalism, Pt. 1
Apocalyptic Paul Booth, Pt. 3 / Susan Grove Eastman / Pauline Apocalyptic, the Cosmos, and Human Personhood
Apocalyptic Paul Booth, Pt. 2 / Douglas Harink / Pauline Apocalyptic and Modern Theology (and Philosophy)
Apocalyptic Paul Booth, Pt. 1 / Jamie Davies / Reading Paul among Other Biblical and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
The Grind / Steven Nemes / On Pasadena, Teaching Middle Schoolers, and Post-catholic Theology
Luminaries / H. Paul Santmire / (Protestant) Eco-theology
Presian Renee Burroughs / Paul, Creation, and the American Food System
Barth Booth, Pt. 3 / Stanley Hauerwas / Karl Barth and the Nature of Theological Language
Barth Booth, Pt. 2 / Kara N. Slade / God's Conclusive Action in Jesus Christ
Barth Booth, Pt. 1 / Kaitlyn Dugan / God's "Yes" to the World
Luminaries / John Swinton / Mental Health, Disability, and "Banal Evil"
Steven DeLay / Kierkegaard and French Phenomenology
The Grind / Cody Bivins-Starr / On Researching Madness at Aberdeen
Luminaries / John Behr / The Mystery of Life in Death
Book Series Spotlight / Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context / K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman
Phenomenology Booth, Pt. 3 / Emmanuel Falque / Finitude, Body, and Philosophy's Passage into Theology
Phenomenology Booth, Pt. 2 / Conor Sweeney / Dasein, the Sacraments, and Metaphysics
Phenomenology Booth, Pt. 1 / Donald Wallenfang / The Twining of Phenomenology and Metaphysics
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