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The Margaret Fuller Legacy: America's First Feminist, 1810–1850
Item# 52389
© 2012
40 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-178-1
In Margaret Fuller’s Memoirs she wrote, “I remember how, as a little child, I had stopped myself one day on the stairs, and asked ‘How came I here? How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? Wh...
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Introducing the Transcendentalists
Item# 49108
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-228-6
In this new release, host James H. Bride brings the language and lives of the Transcendentalists to realization by recognizing the context, expression, and foundation of the movement. This program pio...
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High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos
Item# 40397
© 2008
59 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-845-1
For centuries, Western society drew sustenance from Newtonian physics, classical economics, and other orderly systems of thought. But today’s intellectual climate offers no such comforts, focusing ins...
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Fernando Savater—in Spanish with English Subtitles
Item# 37101
© 2007
27 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-8745-1
Sifting through questions surrounding oppression and terrorism, Spanish essayist and philosopher Fernando Savater has often analyzed religious dogma—studying those who promote it and those who oppose...
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Emerson: The Ideal in America—Educator's Edition
Item# 37620
© 2007
54 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8048-3
A generation after Americans had freed themselves politically and economically from Britain, it would be up to Ralph Waldo Emerson to carry the Revolution to individual men and women by exhorting them...
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Karl Marx
Item# 35426
© 2006
21 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-5575-7
In the fullness of time, his failings have become obvious. Yet, even after the collapse of global Communism, Karl Marx stands undiminished as one of history’s most influential thinkers. This program c...
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Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
Item# 33446
© 2004
19 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-4980-0
In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, a treatise that would forever change our understanding of how work, value, and money are interrelated. This program details Smith’s life and traces...
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John Locke
Item# 33445
© 2004
21 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-4979-4
This program chronicles the life and work of John Locke, the 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist considered by many to be the first notable thinker of the Enlightenment. Without a...
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José Ortega y Gasset—in Spanish with English Subtitles
Item# 32983
© 2004
53 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-8803-4
This program presents the biography of Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. A wealth of photos and archival footage help illustrate the extraordinary times in which Ortega lived, while Professor...
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Machiavelli: The Prince
Item# 33443
© 2004
23 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-4977-0
Few literary works have inspired as diverse and impassioned opinions as Machiavelli’s The Prince. While some have denounced it as epitomizing the immorality and cynicism of despotic political rulers,...
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