Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series.
The series commences with the first of two conversations on Shakespeare’s King Lear – the story of a King who abdicates his throne and divides his kingdom between his two oldest daughters while disavowing his most devoted daughter, Cordelia.
In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College is joined by Dr Kishore Saval, Senior Lecturer in the Western Civilisation Program at ACU, together with Professor Renée Köhler-Ryan, National Head of the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
In this conversation, we explore the meaning of “nothing”, the meaning of tragedy and what it means to be brought to tears and speechlessness by a work of art. The conversation ends with a cliff-hanger…