Today we begin our analysis of Beyond Good & Evil. This episode concerns the preface, which is perhaps my favorite of Nietzsche’s, and the first five sections of chapter one: On the Prejudices of Philosophers. As always I move incredibly slowly during the opening sections because of their incredible importance for understanding the entirety of the work, but ... Show More
Jul 28
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 passages such as "What is Romanticism" - in which Nietzsche explains how he departed ... Show More
1h 37m
Jul 21
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 developed in all members of society. Whereas in the Middle Ages, the individual ... Show More
2h 21m
Jun 2023
Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
<p>David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche's <em>Beyond Good and Evil</em> which contain some of Nietzsche's best drive-bys on philosophers like Plato, Descartes, the Stoics, Kant, and Hegel along with beliefs in free will, hard determinism, Christianity, mora ... Show More
1h 28m
Oct 2020
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" (Part 1/4)
In this episode, I begin my presentation of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus by covering chapter 1, "Introduction: Rhizome" (0:00), chapter 2, "1914: One or Severeal Wolves?" (15:25) and chapter 3, "10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think ... Show More
52m 2s
Aug 2025
Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Today we try to produce a philosophical guide for the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. We talk about Parmenides, Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, kitsch as something more than just an aesthetic category, existential codes and his animal test of morality. Ho ... Show More
32m 41s