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119: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 1 - Goethe, Schiller & The Symbol
Season 5 Episode 47
Something happened to the human mind around the birth of modernity: the divorce of reality and the symbol. Once unified in eucharist, the symbolic an…
7 months ago
Q&A #12
Season 5 Episode 46
Additional episode will release tomorrow. Erich Heller two-parter starts next week for the season finale!
7 months ago
118: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2
Season 5 Episode 45
An exploration of the chapter on Homer's Odyssey and on De Sade's Juliette. How enlightenment and the rationality of domination is contained in the O…
7 months, 1 week ago
117: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1
Season 5 Episode 44
Foundations of Critical Theory, and an exploration of the chapters, "The Concept of Enlightenment", "The Culture Industry". We analyze how myth and e…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Special Episode: Nietzsche Podcast Reading Guide
Season 5 Episode 43
Don't worry, we're still doing Dialectic of Enlightenment next week, but my tour schedule and personal demands on my time (I'm moving) prevented me f…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
116: Nietzsche’s Inaugural Address - Homer & Classical Philology
Season 5 Episode 42
Nietzsche's inaugural lecture at Basel, given in 1869, provides an insight into the young Nietzsche's mind. Surprisingly, even here we find the groun…
8 months ago
Untimely Reflections #36: Tony of 1Dime - The Neoliberal Zeitgeist
I met up with Tony of 1Dime to discuss the neoliberal moment in American culture. We discuss what neoliberalism means, why there is a general discont…
8 months, 1 week ago
115: Martin Heidegger, pt 3 - Will to Power as Knowledge & Metaphysics
Season 3 Episode 41
Finally, we reach the conclusion of our exploration of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche. This time we consider another lecture on will to power, fro…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
114: Martin Heidegger, pt 2 - The Will to Power as Art
Season 3 Episode 40
Continuing with Heidegger, we consider his first lecture on Nietzsche, "The Will to Power as Art", in which Heidegger gives an unorthodox but very en…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
113: Martin Heidegger, part 1 - On Nietzsche & Dasein
Season 5 Episode 39
In this episode, we begin a three-part series on Martin Heidegger and his reading of Nietzsche. The episode begins with a discussion of the backgroun…
9 months ago