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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…
4 years 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 …
4 years 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…
4 years ago
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…
4 years 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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 …
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 2 months ago