
Valentin Gerlier
Scholar, songwriter and musician; Senior Lecturer leading the Poetics of Imagination programme at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School, and author of Shakespeare and the Grace of Words (Routledge, 2022).
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Sep 26, 2026
Episode 156: Dr Valentin Gerlier: William Shakespeare, William Blake, God, and the Grace of Words
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25:51MarcusHOST
I wonder if you might speak to that a little bit and why it's so vital to wrestle with.

Valentin GerlierGUEST
Yes, and I'm sure you've already, as you were saying, extensively covered what this expression, the hermeneutic suspicion, might be all about.

Valentin GerlierGUEST
But there is a sense, there is a sort of satisfaction, I think, that we get from disrupting, from resisting, from interrupting, from countering moments, cultural moments, which we perceive as deeply unjust.
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62:27MarcusHOST
And I wonder what has he meant to you in your own spiritual journey? Yeah.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Part 2: Education and Thought with Valentin Gerlier
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5:53James EllisHOST
So to what degree like did his non-teachings, which we can get to that problem soon, did like, did they play a consistent role in the education?

Valentin GerlierGUEST
I think that, well, there was something called, I think in our time it was called K-Time.

Valentin GerlierGUEST
I think it's since probably now still called Enquiry Time or something of the sort.

Valentin GerlierGUEST
But there was a time dedicated, not necessarily to Krishnamurti, but to the whole movement of inquiry, self-inquiry, philosophical dialogue, going into issues either that were happening at the school or in the world at large, or kind of more important existential issues.

Valentin GerlierGUEST
So you would have a sort of space of two or three hours in the week where classes would stop and that would happen.