Podcast Episodes

The Gay Science #19 (IV.311-327)

Season 5 Episode 53

More aphorisms concerning drives, the way that impulses appropriate thought for their own ends, "moral pluralism", means of finding happiness, pleasure and pain as means rather than ends, and experim…

Published on 12 hours ago

The Gay Science #18 (IV.299-310)

Season 5 Episode 52

Continuing with our readthrough of The Gay Science, book number IV.

Published on 1 week ago

The Gay Science #17 (IV.289-298)

Season 5 Episode 51

Embark, philosophers! Nietzsche hopes for the discovery of many new suns - many new suns - by the philosophical explorers of future ages. For what is needful is that man may learn to be satisfied wit…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

Untimely Reflections #37: PF Jung - Enlightened Centrism

Season 5 Episode 50

PF Jung's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung

If politics is in some sense determined by our psychological temperament, then from an evolutionary standpoint, perhaps there is social value to both…

Published on 3 weeks ago

The Gay Science #16 (IV.276-288)

Season 5 Episode 49

Continuing with The Gay Science, and beginning with book IV, "Sanctus Januarius". Here, we encounter some of the most famous aphorisms: For the New Year, Preparatory Men ("Live Dangerously!") and Exc…

Published on 4 weeks ago

120: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 2 - Burckhardt, Nietzsche & History

Season 5 Episode 48

The conclusion of our two-parter on Erich Heller, and the conclusion to season five! We discuss Nietzsche's friendship with Jacob Burckhardt, and how Burckhardt's view of history can inform our under…

Published on 1 month ago

119: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 1 - Goethe, Schiller & The Symbol

Season 5 Episode 47

Something happened to the human mind around the birth of modernity: the divorce of reality and the symbol. Once unified in eucharist, the symbolic and the real are now separate spheres of the human m…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Q&A #12

Season 5 Episode 46

Additional episode will release tomorrow. Erich Heller two-parter starts next week for the season finale!

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

118: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2

Season 5 Episode 45

An exploration of the chapter on Homer's Odyssey and on De Sade's Juliette. How enlightenment and the rationality of domination is contained in the Odyssey, and how the self-undoing of enlightenment …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

117: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1

Season 5 Episode 44

Foundations of Critical Theory, and an exploration of the chapters, "The Concept of Enlightenment", "The Culture Industry". We analyze how myth and enlightenment both contain one another, and why enl…

Published on 2 months ago