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Birth of Tragedy #8: 22-25 (Conclusion)
Season 2 Episode 41
Nietzsche recapitulates and summarizes his positions, and provides us with a few relatively simple formulas for understanding the interaction of the …
3 years, 7 months ago
Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)
Season 2 Episode 40
Here we find the idea of cultures as admixtures of the Apollinian, Dionysian, or Socratic approaches to life. The Socratic is distinguished from the …
3 years, 8 months ago
Birth of Tragedy #6: 14-17 (The Theoretic v/s the Tragic)
Season 2 Episode 39
Socrates, having been introduced in the last chapter we studied in the previous section, appears now to threaten all art, with a worldview described …
3 years, 8 months ago
Birth of Tragedy #5: 11-13 (Euripedes & The Death of Tragedy)
Season 2 Episode 38
Now we turn to the effect of Euripedes, and Nietzsche’s charge that this tragedian came under the influence of Socrates, and the new form of drama, N…
3 years, 8 months ago
Birth of Tragedy #4: 8-10 (Evolution of the Satyr Chorus & Suffering Hero)
Season 2 Episode 37
Let’s talk about the evolution of the Attic Tragedy: from solo dithyrambic poet, to dithyrambic chorus, to chorus plus the ritualized portrayal of a …
3 years, 8 months ago
Birth of Tragedy #3: 4-7 ("Objective" v/s "Subjective" Art)
Season 2 Episode 36
We continue our analysis of Birth of Tragedy, and enter one of the most byzantine sections of the text. Don’t worry, I shall be your Ariadne.
3 years, 9 months ago
Birth of Tragedy #2: 1-3 (The Two Art-Forces)
Season 2 Episode 35
Today we cover the first three sections of Birth of Tragedy. Slow going, I know- but things will begin to move at a faster clip as we continue. In th…
3 years, 9 months ago
Birth of Tragedy #1: Attempt At Self-Criticism/Preface to Wagner
Season 2 Episode 34
In the name of Lord Dionysus, it with great joy and solemnity that we commence this, the first of our Nietzschean bookclubs. This series will see me …
3 years, 9 months ago
Untimely Reflections #17 - Trialogue with Andrei Georgescu & Karl Nord
Season 2 Episode 33
This is the first conversation on the podcast between more than two people. Given that the episodes involving a dialogue are often the least popular …
3 years, 9 months ago
48: At Noon
Season 2 Episode 32
The final episode of season two.
We discuss some of my favorite passages from Nietzsche, concerning the feeling of liberation one has upon finally …
3 years, 10 months ago