131: Daemonic, part 2 - Herder's Substantial Forces & Goethe's Flame of Genius

131: Daemonic, part 2 - Herder's Substantial Forces & Goethe's Flame of Genius

In the second part of this series, we'll examine how it is that Goethe came to his conception of the Daemonic, involved as it is with Spinoza's pantheism. Goethe's introduction to Spinoza was largely through Herder, and his friendship with Herder he described as one of the most important in his entire life. We'll consider Herder's personality and some of the most important aspects of Herder's worldview, as well as the use of the term "daemonic" as Herder received it from his mentor, the "Magus of the North", Hamann. In the latter half of the episode, we'll look at the specifics of how Goethe describes the Daemonic in Dichtung und Wahrheit and in Conversations with Goethe, in which he describes it as a force that pushes against all limits and manifests in prodigious human beings. We'll relate the idea to Werther, Faust, and consider some of Goethe's real-world examples of it.

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145: The Religion of Self-Redemption (Nietzsche vs Buddhism, pt. 1)

145: The Religion of Self-Redemption (Nietzsche vs Buddhism, pt. 1)

Welcome back to The Nietzsche Podcast, Season Seven! We're beginning with a two-part episode concerning Nietzsche's view of Buddhism. This episode, we will consider some of the basic teachings of Budd...

18 Aug 1h 53min

Q&A #16

Q&A #16

Season seven begins soon! For now, enjoy a selection of fascinating questions.

11 Aug 2h 51min

The Gay Science #25 (V.372-393)

The Gay Science #25 (V.372-393)

We've finally arrived at the conclusion of The Gay Science. The theme of these final sections is perspectivism - we have opened up a "new infinite", penetrating beyond narrow, limited views of the wor...

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The Gay Science #24 (V.364-371)

The Gay Science #24 (V.364-371)

We incomprehensible ones - how our thought branches in every direction, how willing we are to shed our bark, to grow, to change! In this episode, we discuss, among many other sections, important passa...

28 Juli 1h 37min

The Gay Science #23 (V.356-363)

The Gay Science #23 (V.356-363)

In this chapter of our readthrough, we confront "the problem of the actor". Nietzsche predicts that things shall become ever more "artistic" in Europe, as the actor's talent self-falsification becomes...

21 Juli 2h 21min

The Gay Science #22 (V.348-355)

The Gay Science #22 (V.348-355)

The grand experiment continues with a series of naturalistic explanations for the origins of ideas or modes of life. The scholar's intellectual habits are inherited "in blood and instinct"; Spinoza's ...

14 Juli 1h 54min

The Gay Science #21 (V.343-347)

The Gay Science #21 (V.343-347)

"You tremble, carcass?" After a long hiatus, we shall now fearlessly embark upon book V of The Gay Science, added to the text in 1887. In this final division of the text, we'll see Nietzsche's attempt...

7 Juli 2h 5min

Q&A #15

Q&A #15

You know what it is. Questions get answered. The Gay Science readthrough begins in a week's time.

30 Juni 2h 49min

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