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124: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 3 - The Most Beautiful Inventions of the Sick
Season 6 Episode 5
Our series on Pierre Klossowski concludes with a look at some of the later chapters concerning Nietzsche's state of mind leading up to his breakdown …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
123: Rust Cohle & The Flat Circle - Philosophy of True Detective
Season 6 Episode 4
"Time is a flat circle." This famous quote from the series immediately calls to mind Nietzsche's Eternal Return, but it's an unusual connection to sa…
7 months ago
Confucius: On Name & Actuality
Season 6 Episode 3
The Rectification of Names is a Confucian reinterpretation of the function of language. Confucius is usually portrayed as a stuffy moralist, but ther…
7 months, 1 week ago
122: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 2 - The Conspiracy of the Vicious Circle
Season 6 Episode 2
Under the sign of the Vicious Circle, Nietzsche attempts to inaugurate a conspiracy. But how can this view of the Eternal Return - as part of his pro…
7 months, 1 week ago
121: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 1: The Semiotic of Impulses
Season 6 Episode 1
Welcome to season 6! Part I of III. In this first episode, we'll lay the groundwork for Klossowski's critical reading of Nietzsche, beginning with th…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Q&A #13
Season 5 Episode 55
If you would like to have your own questions answered on The Nietzsche Podcast, no matter how unusual, niche, or rambling, then join the Patreon and …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Gay Science #20 (IV.328-342)
Season 5 Episode 54
The conclusion of the main books of The Gay Science! We'll cover some of the best aphorisms so far: the greatest weight, the dying Socrates, long liv…
8 months, 1 week ago
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, pleasu…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Gay Science #18 (IV.299-310)
Season 5 Episode 52
Continuing with our readthrough of The Gay Science, book number IV.
8 months, 3 weeks 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…
8 months, 4 weeks ago