It’s great to have back with me Johannes Neiderhauser, PhD. In yet another engaging and eclectic discussion, Johannes and I ranged over a wide but interconnected landscape of ideas including Dasein and the tragic death of the very young, the necessity of Amor Fati in the face of a world by turns joyous and painful, the pitfalls of happy-go-lucky nihilism, before finally turning to an examination of whether the subject has been eliminated or amplified in drone warfare.

Johannes is a philosopher, currently teaching at Birkbeck College, he will soon publish his first book on Heidegger’s phenomenology of death. Johannes has also made recent forays into online education through his collaborative course with Justin Murphy on the subject of Deleuze Vs Heidegger; a thought-provoking course which very much felt like Johnny Cash jamming with the Sex Pistols. In the last few weeks, Johannes has also launched his own solo course on Idleness with Dignity, surely to be followed by many more to come. As well as being the impresario of the Dead Philosophers Club, Johannes is also the founder of the Halkyon Thinkers Guild, ‘a gathering of thinkers, artists, writers, forecasters, and sense-makers.’ Johannes has been on fire recently with a plethora of fascinating YouTube videos on the challenges of our age. Please check out his fascinating lectures and interviews at Classical Philosophy on Youtube, Instagram and Patreon. Links can be found below.

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