37: Richard Wagner, part 2: Nietzsche Contra Wagner
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 his personal correspondence, and in his reflections ...
3 Mai 20221h 27min
Q&A Episode #3
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 fixed. Better late than never! I answer fan ques...
29 Apr 20221h 4min
36: Richard Wagner, part 1: Bayreuth Horizon Observations
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 man, who was a rising star in the music world, on tra...
26 Apr 20221h 24min
35: The Spirit of Music
"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 to quite openly - but a glance at Nietzsche's thoug...
20 Apr 20221h 24min
34: Self-Control
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 but not yet attempted a deep dive of, Nietzsche outl...
12 Apr 20221h 11min
33: The Overman, part 2: The Convalescent
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 the same events: The Convalescent. This chapter of Th...
5 Apr 20221h 16min
32: The Overman, part 1: Arrows of Longing
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 over the first season and the first part of this one,...
29 Mar 20221h 21min
31: Creators and Self-Legislators (III: The Philosopher)
The philosopher is a misunderstood figure - perhaps most of all by philosophers themselves. This is Nietzsche’s charge, in his later work: what we imagine drives the philosopher, the “will to truth“, ...
22 Mar 20221h 16min
