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45: Descent Into Materialism (Friedrich Albert Lange & The Pre-Platonics)
Season 2 Episode 28
In this episode, we revisit the Pre-Platonic lecture series given by Nietzsche at Basel, the notes for which were assembled and translated by Gregory…
3 years, 7 months ago
44: Cartesian Dualism
Season 2 Episode 26
In this episode, I'm reading a chapter of my book, Unconscious Correspondences. I considered an episode on Cartesian Dualism, but realized I'd alrea…
3 years, 8 months ago
43: Nihilism
Season 2 Episode 25
Much had been made of Nietzsche’s predictions of the coming nihilism. As a result of the death of the Christian God, Europe is bound for a crisis of …
3 years, 8 months ago
42: Goethe's Faust, part 2
Season 2 Episode 24
After the wager is agreed upon between Faust and Mephisto, the two set off to explore the world. Mephisto takes Faust out drinking in Leipzig. Then, …
3 years, 8 months ago
41: Goethe's Faust, part 1
Season 2 Episode 23
Goethe is perhaps the most widely-celebrated author of German literature, and Faust is his most famous tale. While the historical Doctor Faustus had …
3 years, 8 months ago
40: Ralph Waldo Emerson & The Children of The Fire
Season 2 Episode 22
"Emerson – Never have I felt so much at home in a book, and in my home, as – I may not praise it… it is too close to me... The author who has been ri…
3 years, 9 months ago
Untimely Reflections #16: At the Movies! - Demolition Man, featuring Amberly
Season 2 Episode 21
In a second episode with my wife, Amberly, we talk about another movie. This time it's not a movie about Nietzsche, the man, but a film that I argue …
3 years, 9 months ago
Untimely Reflections #15: William Kaiser - Language, Memory & Psychoanalysis
Season 2 Episode 20
William Kaiser is a sociologist, a pupil of Peter Berger, a student of the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and an autodidact in all things Freud, Nietzsc…
3 years, 9 months ago
39: The Genius of the Heart
Season 2 Episode 19
Today, it's an examination of a single aphorism: Beyond Good & Evil, 295, "The Genius of the Heart":
"...the genius of the heart,
who silences all …
3 years, 9 months ago
38: The Genius of the Species
Season 2 Episode 18
Another episode on a single passage: The Gay Science, book V, aphorism 354: “The Genius of the Species”. One of the most thought-provoking passages…
3 years, 9 months ago