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Untimely Reflections #37: PF Jung - Enlightened Centrism
Season 5 Episode 50
PF Jung's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung
If politics is in some sense determined by our psychological temperament, then from an evolutionary…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Gay Science #16 (IV.276-288)
Season 5 Episode 49
Continuing with The Gay Science, and beginning with book IV, "Sanctus Januarius". Here, we encounter some of the most famous aphorisms: For the New Y…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
120: Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind, pt 2 - Burckhardt, Nietzsche & History
Season 5 Episode 48
The conclusion of our two-parter on Erich Heller, and the conclusion to season five! We discuss Nietzsche's friendship with Jacob Burckhardt, and how…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Q&A #12
Season 5 Episode 46
Additional episode will release tomorrow. Erich Heller two-parter starts next week for the season finale!
10 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…
10 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…
10 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…
10 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…
11 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…
11 months, 1 week ago