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37: Richard Wagner, part 2: Nietzsche Contra Wagner
Season 2 Episode 17
In part two, we shift from the friendship - at first strong, and later, a bit troubled - to the break that happened in 1878/9. Nietzsche writes, in h…
3 years, 10 months ago
Q&A Episode #3
Season 2 Episode 17
UPDATE: Yesterday, when the episode went live, it had the wrong audio uploaded and simply contained a repeat of Q&A #1. Sorry everyone. This has been…
3 years, 10 months ago
36: Richard Wagner, part 1: Bayreuth Horizon Observations
Season 2 Episode 16
It's finally time to talk about Richard Wagner. After meeting Wagner by happenstance in 1868, Nietzsche began a ten-year friendship with the older ma…
3 years, 10 months ago
35: The Spirit of Music
Season 2 Episode 15
"Without music, life would be a mistake." It's commonly known that Nietzsche was a sort of 'musical philosopher' - in fact, it was a feat he aspired …
3 years, 10 months ago
34: Self-Control
Season 2 Episode 14
Join me in a discussion of passage 109 of Daybreak: "Self-Control and Moderation and Their Final Motive". In this passage that we've oft referenced b…
3 years, 10 months ago
33: The Overman, part 2: The Convalescent
Season 2 Episode 13
In the second of our examination of the Overman, we'll examine a passage I'd originally planned to look at in respect to the eternal recurrence of th…
3 years, 10 months ago
32: The Overman, part 1: Arrows of Longing
Season 2 Episode 12
This is the last great concept of Nietzsche's that we have not yet covered on the podcast. With all of the background context that we've collected ov…
3 years, 11 months ago
31: Creators and Self-Legislators (III: The Philosopher)
Season 2 Episode 11
The philosopher is a misunderstood figure - perhaps most of all by philosophers themselves. This is Nietzsche’s charge, in his later work: what we im…
3 years, 11 months ago
30: Chemistry of Feelings (II: The Artist)
Season 2 Episode 10
Who is the artist? Where does art come from? What is the future of art? Doing a comprehensive view of Nietzsche’s take on artists is probably too big…
3 years, 11 months ago
Untimely Reflections #14: invalid_arg_ - Marxism-Leninism 101
Season 2 Episode 9
It seems that there is a twofold trend among modern Nietzscheans. On the one hand, we have those influenced by French thinkers such as Deleuze or Fou…
3 years, 11 months ago