118: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2
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 Odyssey, and how the self-undoing of enlightenment m...
21 Jul 20251h 47min
117: Max Horkheimer & Theodore Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1
Foundations of Critical Theory, and an exploration of the chapters, "The Concept of Enlightenment", "The Culture Industry". We analyze how myth and enlightenment both contain one another, and why enli...
15 Jul 20252h 3min
Special Episode: Nietzsche Podcast Reading Guide
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 from finishing a full episode before departing for a...
8 Jul 202516min
116: Nietzsche’s Inaugural Address - Homer & Classical Philology
Nietzsche's inaugural lecture at Basel, given in 1869, provides an insight into the young Nietzsche's mind. Surprisingly, even here we find the groundwork laid for his later philosophical project. Nie...
1 Jul 20251h 33min
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 discontent with it, the advantages of neoliberalism, and t...
24 Jun 20252h 1min
115: Martin Heidegger, pt 3 - Will to Power as Knowledge & Metaphysics
Finally, we reach the conclusion of our exploration of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche. This time we consider another lecture on will to power, from Volume II of Heidegger's collected lectures on Ni...
17 Jun 20251h 51min
114: Martin Heidegger, pt 2 - The Will to Power as Art
Continuing with Heidegger, we consider his first lecture on Nietzsche, "The Will to Power as Art", in which Heidegger gives an unorthodox but very enlightening reading of will to power, then hinges th...
10 Jun 20251h 34min
113: Martin Heidegger, part 1 - On Nietzsche & Dasein
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 background of Heidegger's life and ideas, as well as a brief...
3 Jun 20251h 58min
