Best Oedipus Rex Podcasts (2024)

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97: Sophocles - Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus 1:34:20

24d ago1:34:20

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Welcome to season five of The Nietzsche Podcast! First of all, a warm thank you to all of my listeners and patrons who have helped to make this show such a phenomenal success. For our first episode in this new collection of episodes, we're diving headfirst into the Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles triumphed wi…

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Notenkraker & Muizenkoning - Het Nationale Ballet 19:21

6h ago19:21

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Notenkraker & Muizenkoning - Het Nationale Ballet by Nationale Opera & BalletBy Nationale Opera & Ballet

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101: Aeschylus - The Oresteia 1:51:55

3h ago1:51:55

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Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only extant trilogy of Greek drama. Alongside the Parthenon, the Oresteia is considered one of the two greatest 'monuments' to the Golden Age of Athens. In this trilogy - The Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides - Aeschylus dramatizes a rite of passage from savagery to civilization. Over the course of the na…

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Generation Dance - Het Nationale Ballet 16:55

8d ago16:55

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100: Peter Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle 1:29:43

3d ago1:29:43

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Welcome to the ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE of The Nietzsche Podcast. Today we're examining the speech of Peter Sloterdijk, given on the centennial of Nietzsche's death, and transcribed into the essay entitled, "Nietzsche Apostle". Sloterdijk puts forward the theory that languages are fundamentally an instrument of 'group narcissism' by which the group re…

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99: Carl Jung - The Undiscovered Self 1:45:58

10d ago1:45:58

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In 1956, Jung wrote the essay entitled, "Past and Future" in German, but we know it in English as "The Undiscovered Self". Having witnessed the horror of the world wars, and the ongoing apocalyptic danger of the Cold War, Jung attempted to explain why it was that societies sometimes went mad. This is how Europe experienced the outbreak of The Great…

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Rigoletto - De Nationale Opera 22:47

20d ago22:47

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98: Yukio Mishima - Sun & Steel 1:24:18

17d ago1:24:18

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Yukio Mishima (born Kimitake Hiraoka, 1925-1970) wrote dozens of stories, including famous works such as Confessions of a Mask, and Patriotism. He was considered for a Nobel Prize in literature about half a dozen times, through he never won it. His works were adapted into films, which received international acclaim. He wrote modern No plays which w…

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The Gay Science #5 (I.45 - I.56) 1:52:01

1M ago1:52:01

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Concluding with our readthrough of book I of The Gay Science! We'll return with book II in a short while. In the meantime, we're going back to regular episodes of the podcast in the immediate future, covering a variety of topics. Cheers!

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The Gay Science #4 (I.30 -I.44) 1:45:24

2M ago1:45:24

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Join me for the next installment of our readthrough of The Gay Science. Here, we cover a number of aphorisms concerning: fame and its effect on friendship; the dying words of Roman emperors; the hidden significance of all historical events; the desacrelizing effects of market forces upon society; and the value in knowing the supposed motives of hum…

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The Gay Science #3 (I.21 - I.29) 1:40:11

2M ago1:40:11

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In this episode, we discuss the way in which selfishness is the root of all selfless morality, how corruption produces greatness, why the ascetic is driven by ambition, and the age old question, "What is Life?"

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The Gay Science #2 (I.10 - I.20) 1:47:59

2M ago1:47:59

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Join me this week, for a discussion of significant aphorisms from The Gay Science, including Consciousness, Evil, and The Feeling of Power.

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The Gay Science #1 (Preface, I.1 - I.9) 1:58:42

2M ago1:58:42

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We begin our walkthrough + analysis of The Gay Science today, starting with some brief remarks on the background context of the work, a loose examination of the preface, and an intense exegesis of the first nine aphorisms. Excited to dive into this one with all of you1

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Q&A #10 2:12:49

3M ago2:12:49

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Answering questions from Patrons for our tenth Q&A episode! Thank you everyone, first episode analyzing The Gay Science next week.

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Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #3 1:07:01

3M ago1:07:01

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Updates on my life, the new direction for the podcast, revealing the next book that we’re analyzing, and general thoughts on the spirit of the show, what binds the community together, and self celebration about the release of my book.

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Stravinsky Sprookjes - Het Nationale Ballet 27:32

3M ago27:32

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De volgende fragmenten van opnames zijn gebruikt voor het samenstellen van deze podcast:L'oiseau de Feu - Stravinsky - Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg o.l.v. Gustavo GimenoThe Fairy’s Kiss - Stravinsky - Scottish Symphony Orchestra o.l.v. Ilan VolkovLe Sacre du printemps - Stravinsky - The Philadelphia Orchestra o.l.v. Riccardo MutiSongs for…

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96: Nietzsche as Educator 1:06:54

3M ago1:06:54

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A summary of Nietzsche's teachings, examined by considering the parallel of Schopenhauer's influence on Nietzsche with how the modern person could adopt Nietzsche as a similar type of influence. I attempt to distill the central message of Nietzsche's philosophy, and explain how this interpretative framework helps elucidate new angles to many of his…

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Fidelio - De Nationale Opera 23:49

3M ago23:49

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95: The Journey to Hades 1:59:54

3M ago1:59:54

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In the aphorism, "Journey to Hades" in Human All Too Human Vol 2, Nietzsche lists eight thinkers who helped to shape his thought. Each of these eight is paired with another thinker, a choice which is intentional and intended to reveal something about each pair. These eight are: Epicurus and Montaigne; Goethe and Spinoza; Plato and Rousseau; Pascal …

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94: Nietzsche Reviews His Own Books 1:19:05

4M ago1:19:05

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The second part of a two-parter we began near the beginning of this season. The completion of our analysis of Ecce Homo. In this episode, we consider Nietzsche's reviews of his own books, and argue that it presents a creative narrative of Nietzsche's life: Nietzsche as a tragic figure. Nietzsche mythologizes himself and the circumstances of his gre…

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93: The Idle Hours of a Psychologist 1:26:10

4M ago1:26:10

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The Twilight of Idols is described by Nietzsche as a work of leisure: a leap sideways, a bit of sunshine, a form of play rather than work. The laboriousness of 'notebook psychology', in which one strains and squints and spies on reality, could not be further from this natural discernment based on what one is given. In this episode, we explore exact…

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92: The Four Great Errors 1:22:08

4M ago1:22:08

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A deep dive into one of the most important passages in Twilight of Idols. We’ll explore Nietzsche’s critique of our erroneous habits of thought: mistaking the effect for the cause, false causality, creating imaginary causes, creating a doer of the deed, and free will. We explore Nietzsche’s explanation for how these errors take hold of our thought,…

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Q&A #9 1:41:26

4M ago1:41:26

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The ninth time that I’ve done this.

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Untimely Reflections #31: Quinn Williams - On Deleuze, and Methods of Interpretation 1:33:30

5M ago1:33:30

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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, and the Deleuzian understanding of will to power. More broadly, we discuss what it is …

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Il trittico - De Nationale Opera 21:07

5M ago21:07

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91: Carl Jung - Nietzsche on the Couch 1:22:28

5M ago1:22:28

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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 central hypothesis is that Nietzsche was possessed by an archetype. Such archet…

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90: Carl Jung - Archetypes & The Collective Unconscious 1:26:40

5M ago1:26:40

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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 in Jung’s most important ideas: projection, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. In this episode, we go in-depth on t…

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Roberto Devereux - De Nationale Opera 22:21

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Untimely Reflections #30: Weltgeist - Aesthetics of Schopenhauer & Nietzsche 1:43:18

5M ago1:43:18

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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 what Nietzsche describes as the asceticism of the scientific wor…

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Untimely Reflections #29: Daniel Tutt - Boxing with Nietzsche 1:27:20

5M ago1:27:20

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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 pugilistic relationship with him. In his view, the French leftists who utilized Nietzsche’s work sometimes centered Nietzsche t…

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Dancing Dutch - Het National Ballet 17:06

5M ago17:06

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Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist? 1:00:11

6M ago1:00:11

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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 Nietzsche a postmodernist, and to what extent did he influence them? How do…

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89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions 1:20:52

6M ago1:20:52

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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, in spite of his multiple references to Nietzsche in his early work. While Freud certainly drew from Nietzsche's ideas…

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88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified 1:35:19

6M ago1:35:19

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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 of the only thinkers hitherto who understood this. Nietzsche's famous formula - Dionysus ver…

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87: Science and Wisdom in Battle 1:25:21

6M ago1:25:21

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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 discuss the importance of "relations of tension" in Nietzsche's earlier work: art versus scie…

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Oedipus Rex / Antigone - Nationale Opera & Ballet 25:06

6M ago25:06

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86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus 1:25:40

7M ago1:25:40

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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 the remaining Pre-Platonics, I have some brief concluding remarks in which I attempt to m…

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85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus 1:26:25

7M ago1:26:25

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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 matter that is not as immediately accessible as Nietzsche’s more popular writings. You will not find his major concept…

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Q&A #8 1:35:51

7M ago1:35:51

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I answered questions from the Patrons. Enjoy!

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84: Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe 1:40:58

8M ago1:40:58

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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 to be remembered as perhaps the greatest writer of the German language, certainly of the 19th century. Eck…

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83: Baruch Spinoza’s Geometric Faith 1:46:42

8M ago1:46:42

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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 attempt of logical precision. In fact, Spinoza structures his arguments as geometric proofs, and considers th…

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ANNOUNCEMENT. 23:13

8M ago23:13

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Important announcement.

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La traviata - De Nationale Opera 26:56

8M ago26:56

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82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations 1:42:54

8M ago1:42:54

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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 odds. Pascal was a devout Christian, whose philosophical works concern the Christian faith: his most fa…

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81: Michel de Montaigne - “What Do I Know?” 1:18:42

8M ago1:18:42

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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 knowing, and he exemplified the philosopher’s proclivity to inquire about every proposition. In his …

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Agrippina - De Nationale Opera 24:53

8M ago24:53

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Untimely Reflections #27: Devin Goure & the Nietzschean Left 1:37:17

8M ago1:37:17

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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/DevinGoureYou can find Devin's substack here: https://devingour.substack.com/In this conversation, Devin and I discuss the meaning …

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80: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 2: Becoming-Active 1:35:31

9M ago1:35:31

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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 of ressentiment in the "inverted image" produc…