The Nietzsche Podcast

By Untimely Reflections

What's The Nietzsche Podcast about?

A podcast about Nietzsche's ideas, his influences, and those he influenced. Philosophy and cultural commentary through a Nietzschean lens.

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The Nietzsche Podcast episodes:

05.07.2024
Q&A #9
The ninth time that I’ve done this.
05.03.2024
Untimely Reflections #31: Quinn Williams - On Deleuze, and Methods of Interpretation
My friend Quinn and I discuss whether Deleuze is an accurate interpreter of Nietzsche. What are the faults of Deleuze's interpretation, and what are its merits? We discuss the eternal return, the anti-Hegelian attitude of Deleuze, ressentiment and bad conscience,...
04.30.2024
91: Carl Jung - Nietzsche on the Couch
Carl Jung contributed to psychoanalysis in an important way, but that contribution to the field is inseparable from his engagement with Nietzsche. Jung derived a wealth of insights from Nietzsche’s work, and his psychological state that deteriorated into madness. Jung’s...
04.23.2024
90: Carl Jung - Archetypes & The Collective Unconscious
Carl Gustave Jung was a student of Freud, but broke from his mentor in a dramatic way. Jung acquired the reputation of being a mystic, and put forward ideas that pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis. This is a crash course...
04.16.2024
Untimely Reflections #30: Weltgeist - Aesthetics of Schopenhauer & Nietzsche
Weltgeist x The Nietzsche Podcast. A long-awaited conversation. We discuss: the aesthetics of Schopenhauer v/s Nietzsche, the Schopenhauerian influence on Wagner's music, The Pale Blue Dot, the Eros as discussed in Plato's Symposium, philosophy and art as luxuries of civilization, and...
04.09.2024
Untimely Reflections #29: Daniel Tutt - Boxing with Nietzsche
Daniel Tutt is the author of How to Read Like a Parasite, a new book which warns leftist thinkers about the power and danger of Nietzsche. Daniel has a long history of engaging with Nietzsche’s philosophy, and argues for a...
04.02.2024
Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist?
Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher, and the author of numerous books, including Understanding Postmodernism, and Nietzsche & the Nazis. As Professor Hicks is a critic of postmodernism, I decided to ask him about Nietzsche's connection to postmodern thought. Is...
03.26.2024
89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) said of Nietzsche that he had "more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live." In spite of this, Freud always denied that Nietzsche was an influence on his thought,...
03.19.2024
88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified
Among Nietzsche's critics, René Girard is perhaps unique. Girard's understanding of human civilization and the origins of human culture is that it is based on ritual, collective violence against a scapegoated individual - and he argues that Nietzsche is one...
03.12.2024
87: Science and Wisdom in Battle
Today we examine an 1875 Fragment, entitled "Science and Wisdom in Battle". Not only does this fragment contain one of my favorite quotations of Nietzsche's, it represents his continual grappling with the meaning of Ancient Greek culture. In particular, we...
03.05.2024
86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus
In this episode, we continue our discussion of the Pre-Platonics, and cover the ideas of Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and Democritus. The episode begins with a brief recap of the previous philosophers and the dialogue up to this point. After considering...
02.26.2024
85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject...
02.13.2024
Q&A #8
I answered questions from the Patrons. Enjoy!
02.06.2024
84: Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe
Nietzsche said of this work that it was “the best German book”. For the last nine years of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s life, Johann Peter Eckermann journaled about their conversations together. Goethe was a celebrity at the time, and destined...
01.30.2024
83: Baruch Spinoza’s Geometric Faith
In the tradition of the great theistic philosophers, Baruch Spinoza presents us with a metaphysical vision of the cosmos, as ordered by God. But in sharp contrast with thinkers such as Pascal, Spinoza's arguments for God are crafted with an...
01.26.2024
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Important announcement.
01.23.2024
82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations
Pascal and Nietzsche are two names of monumental importance in the Western philosophical tradition, but rarely are their names mentioned together. At a glance, there is a wide gulf that separates the two, and seems to place them at irreconcilable...
01.16.2024
81: Michel de Montaigne - “What Do I Know?”
Nietzsche listed Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) among the best French writers of the Renaissance, and called him a link to classical antiquity. The personal seal of Montaigne read, “What do I know?” For Montaigne, doubting was no less pleasing than...
01.09.2024
Untimely Reflections #27: Devin Goure & the Nietzschean Left
Devin Goure is a scholar with a background in philosophy, an interest in psychology, mental health & neurodivergence. He holds a PhD in political theory. He's known as Left Nietzschean on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevinGoure You can find Devin's substack here: https://devingour.substack.com/ In this...
01.02.2024
80: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 2: Becoming-Active
In this second part of our exploration of Deleuze, we go straight into the Deleuzian understanding of ressentiment, and the significance of Nietzsche's distinction between ressentiment and the bad conscience. Deleuze's interpretation is predominantly psychological/physiological, and he sees the origins...
12.23.2023
The Dionysmas Special
Multiple discourses on birth, death & resurrection. Featuring Andrei Georgescu, Vivienne Magdalen, Mynaa Miesnowan. Includes a segment of where my wife and I read Youtube comments. Here's to another year of the podcast! Episode art: Dionysian Ghost of Christmas by...
12.18.2023
79: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 1: Against the Dialectic
Giles Deleuze is one of the most significant figures of French postmodernism, famous for his work with psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. In this episode, we're going to consider Deleuze's work, Nietzsche and Philosophy. In the words of Deleuze, the opposition to...
12.12.2023
Untimely Reflections #26: Andrei Georgescu (Artiexus) - Seedless Flowers & Materialist Theories of Creativity
I'd originally planned to launch into Deleuze this week, but I'm busy playing shows all weekend and decided to release this instead. I think this was a great episode, perhaps one of the best Untimely Reflections yet. Andrei Georgescu is...
12.05.2023
78: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic
GWF Hegel is one of the most difficult philosophers in the western canon, but today we’ attempt to demystify him. In this episode, we’ll break down Hegel’s phenomenology, the dialectic, and the Hegelian understanding of desire. Our concrete entrypoint into...
11.28.2023
77: Robert Pirsig’s Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Today we continue with our inquiry into rhetoric and dialectic, with Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig, like Nietzsche, saw himself as a modern-day Sophist, and part of his work was the rescue of the Sophistic...
11.25.2023
Untimely Reflections #25 - William Kaiser: AI Optimism
In my second conversation with William, we discuss the possibilities for language-learning models, the coming of artificial general intelligence, why the writers may be striking against creative destruction in the economy, and the legitimacy of A.I. art and writing.
11.21.2023
76: Nietzsche’s Apology
This episode concerns the autobiographical essays in Ecce Homo, which Kaufmann has called, Nietzsche’s Apology. Similarly to Socrates, Nietzsche gives a defense of himself and his career: a defense against being “mistaken”, or “misunderstood”. Like Socrates, who came with a...
11.14.2023
75: Socrates’ Apology
Socrates was a famous opponent of the Sophists, the teachers of rhetoric instead of truth - and yet, in his legal defense, he employs the techniques of rhetoric and displays a mastery of oratory. In a society that distrusted irony...
11.07.2023
74: Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit (As Seen in the Life of Nietzsche)
In this episode, I attempt to give a fresh biographical account of Nietzsche's life, by examining his life in light of his Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit, found in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In the course of this biography, using Nietzsche...
10.31.2023
All Hallow’s Special: Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl
A Merry All Hallow’s Eve to Ye All! There will be a regular episode this Friday, but I can’t resist the opportunity to release an episode on the day of Halloween. Mynaa and I discuss a Persian novel concerning Nietzschean...
10.24.2023
73: The Power to Forget
Welcome to all free spirits, wanderers, madmen and godless anti-metaphysicians! It is high time to drink from the waters of Lethe, and forget all that came before in this podcast. Today, we embark on a new phase of our voyage...
10.10.2023
Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #2
Update on my life and the podcast, some random musings and stories. NO EPISODE NEXT WEEK. We’re taking a short break before season 4. Cheers
10.03.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #15: Conclusion - Struggle Against Platonism (IX.268 - IX.296)
Nietzsche concludes the book with the suggestion that cognition itself is “common”, insofar as communicability is more effective the more common the experience that is communicated. Language facilitates the “abbreviation” of the most common sentiments and experiences, which is part...
09.26.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #14: The Essence of Life (IX.257 - IX.267)
The first half of the final chapter, “What is Noble”. We cover the concepts of the order of rank, pathos of distance, the origins of civilization and morality. The master/slave morality is formally introduced, and Nietzsche gives several remarks supporting...
09.19.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #13: Fatherlandishness (VIII.240 - VIII.256)
This episode covers the entirety of Peoples and Fatherlands, chapter eight of Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche considers the character of the Germans, that of the French and the English, and the Jews. He attacks nationalism and anti-semitism, and reiterates...
09.05.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #12 (Featuring Vivienne Magdalen): Women (VII.231 - VII.239)
A fascinating discussion with someone with an unusual perspective for modern times. Vivienne joins me while we go over the remainder of aphorisms from Beyond Good & Evil, section 7, Our Virtues: the ones concerning women. This is a topic...
08.29.2023
Nietzsche at the Movies: Barbenheimer
My unnecessarily long review of the cultural meaning of Barbenheimer.
08.22.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #11: Immoralist Virtue Ethics (VII.214 - VII.230)
This part of the text is a re-evaluation of what morality is, or can be, for the philosopher of the future. Nietzsche is a bit sneaky here, by implying the free spirit, or philosopher of the future, to be admirable...
08.15.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #10: We Scholars (VI.204 - VI.213)
Today, we cover the entirety of part six - We Scholars. This chapter is of particular importance for understanding Nietzsche’s reconceptualization of the philosopher, and how such a figure stands in relation to the academic. The philosopher’s essential character is...
08.08.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #9: Morality as Timidity (V.197 - V.203)
Much of the second half of the Natural History of Morals is a meditation on the common morality as one of prudence, stupidity, and fear. In one word: timidity. Nietzsche draws upon ideas he’s explored in Human all too Human,...
08.01.2023
Q&A #7
A question and answer session just from the patrons, though I figured the public would enjoy some of the topics covered. Enjoy!
07.25.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #8: Morality is a Tyrannical Impulse (V.186 - V.196)
Finally getting into part five, The Natural History of Morals. We’re more than halfway through the text, and Nietzsche applies his psychological method to morality. Episode art is Satan overlooking Paradise by Gustave Dore.
07.18.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #7: Interlude (IV.63-IV.185)
A whirlwind tour through the epigrams and interludes of Beyond Good & Evil. A relatively free spirited and brief segment of our analysis before we dive into some of the denser divisions of the work - albeit with a bit...
07.12.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #6: Self-Denial as Power (III.47-III.62)
Apologies on the late upload! There were technical difficulties that have since been resolved. We’re back on track and next week’s release will be on Tuesday again. The ascetic values of the saint are premised on self-denial. It was this...
07.04.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #5: The Great Hunt (II.38 - III.46)
Nietzsche finishes sketching his vision of a philosophy of the future. True free spiritedness represents a fundamental commitment to hardness and independence of spirit. This makes the philosopher opposite the scholar in terms of his virtues. This total individuality necessitates...
06.30.2023
Untimely Reflections #24: Karl Nord on James Burnham - His Life, His Thought & The Machiavellians
WARNING: It seems my microphone was not fully plugged in during this exchange, and the computer defaulted to the internal microphone... which is, well, garbage. So, my audio quality sounds pretty dreadful here, but it's at least listenable, and there's...
06.27.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #4: The Esoteric (II.26 - II.37)
In this section, Nietzsche describes the truth-seeker as an exception among the rule, and emphasizes the difference between esoteric and exoteric knowledge. Nietzsche explores differences in tempo of thinking between individuals and cultures, which he sources to physiological realities. This...
06.20.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)
In this next episode on Beyond Good & Evil, we discuss the simplification of the world out of a psychological need, and the ways in which we have sought for “Being” in the soul, the ego, the will, and in...
06.16.2023
Untimely Reflections #23: John Hunt - Horror & Realism
My conversation with horror author John Hunt, an Amazon bestseller in his genre and veteran of the homicide division in the Canadian police. John and I cover a range of topics in this discussion, from why he loves Nietzsche, to...
06.13.2023
Beyond Good and Evil #2: Involuntary, Unconscious Memoir (I.6-I.16)
We continue our exegesis of Beyond Good and Evil, and cover the bulk of On the Prejudices of Philosophers. This section involves Nietzsche’s analysis of various philosophers for whom he has admiration or which exercised a great influence on the...

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The Nietzsche Podcast episodes:

Q&A #9

Untimely Reflections #31: Quinn Williams - On Deleuze, and Methods of Interpretation

91: Carl Jung - Nietzsche on the Couch

90: Carl Jung - Archetypes & The Collective Unconscious

Untimely Reflections #30: Weltgeist - Aesthetics of Schopenhauer & Nietzsche

Untimely Reflections #29: Daniel Tutt - Boxing with Nietzsche

Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist?

89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions

88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified

87: Science and Wisdom in Battle

86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus

85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus

Q&A #8

84: Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe

83: Baruch Spinoza’s Geometric Faith

ANNOUNCEMENT.

82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations

81: Michel de Montaigne - “What Do I Know?”

Untimely Reflections #27: Devin Goure & the Nietzschean Left

80: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 2: Becoming-Active

The Dionysmas Special

79: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 1: Against the Dialectic

Untimely Reflections #26: Andrei Georgescu (Artiexus) - Seedless Flowers & Materialist Theories of Creativity

78: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic

77: Robert Pirsig’s Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Untimely Reflections #25 - William Kaiser: AI Optimism

76: Nietzsche’s Apology

75: Socrates’ Apology

74: Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit (As Seen in the Life of Nietzsche)

All Hallow’s Special: Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl

73: The Power to Forget

Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #2

Beyond Good and Evil #15: Conclusion - Struggle Against Platonism (IX.268 - IX.296)

Beyond Good and Evil #14: The Essence of Life (IX.257 - IX.267)

Beyond Good and Evil #13: Fatherlandishness (VIII.240 - VIII.256)

Beyond Good and Evil #12 (Featuring Vivienne Magdalen): Women (VII.231 - VII.239)

Nietzsche at the Movies: Barbenheimer

Beyond Good and Evil #11: Immoralist Virtue Ethics (VII.214 - VII.230)

Beyond Good and Evil #10: We Scholars (VI.204 - VI.213)

Beyond Good and Evil #9: Morality as Timidity (V.197 - V.203)

Q&A #7

Beyond Good and Evil #8: Morality is a Tyrannical Impulse (V.186 - V.196)

Beyond Good and Evil #7: Interlude (IV.63-IV.185)

Beyond Good and Evil #6: Self-Denial as Power (III.47-III.62)

Beyond Good and Evil #5: The Great Hunt (II.38 - III.46)

Untimely Reflections #24: Karl Nord on James Burnham - His Life, His Thought & The Machiavellians

Beyond Good and Evil #4: The Esoteric (II.26 - II.37)

Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)

Untimely Reflections #23: John Hunt - Horror & Realism

Beyond Good and Evil #2: Involuntary, Unconscious Memoir (I.6-I.16)

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