Friedrich Nietzsche
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Existentialism Course, Summer 2017
When I do lectures in this class, I will post the audio files here. Doing this lets students be a little more free to engage in the lecture without worry that they will miss taking notes on something important. It… Continue reading
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Hidden Desire: Nietzsche, Gay Philosopher
Most folks I know who focus on Nietzsche are very heteronormative. Yet Nietzsche as gay man has always made so much sense to me. Why do folks NOT read Nietzsche as a man who loved men, a man even more… Continue reading
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A dancing star in a constellation of lies
Am I decent man? Perhaps. I would use this opportunity to speak about myself with some pleasure (Dostoevsky 7). But I am not sure it is such a pleasure. Does decency really only allow me to speak about myself? Certainly,… Continue reading
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Stefan Zweig: On The Daemonic and Tragic Worlds | dark ecologies
Whatever strives to transcend the narrower boundaries of self, overleaping immediate personal interests to seek adventures in the dangerous realm of inquiry, is the outcome of the daemonic constituent of our being. But the daemon is not a friendly and… Continue reading
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Ressentiment on Aug 17
Ressentiment Feeling again the “cause” of frustration but the cause has no real effect feeling again only my imagination brings about this personal defect getting stuck in futures now/here superseded beyond where I’m butchered forward falling, impeded being stuck in… Continue reading
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For Jared
What is care of the self? Do we mean care of the I or care of the body or care of the being with an I in a body or care of the body with an eye for an I?… Continue reading
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Playfulness: the Point of Existence
“A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that… Continue reading
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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings
“Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems that for as far back as we’re able to peer into human history, the wheel has been one of our… Continue reading
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Tannhäuser Overture | Richard Wagner
Sitting and waiting for the newest Teen Wolf episode on MTV and suddenly I think, “Hey, why not listen to one of Richard Wagner‘s greatest overtures?” Indeed, good brother and sisters of the Ether, why not? Now, I am quite… Continue reading
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The Platonic Superman
Or, Man of Steel: Man of Gold Even though the Snyder/Nolan Superman film has been out now for a bit, let me begin by saying: SPOILER ALERT. I was finally able to see the blockbuster with my buddy-friend-guy, Christopher. The… Continue reading
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Aurora Consurgens
Our evaluations. – All actions may be traced back to evaluations, all evaluations are original or adopted – the latter being by far the most common. Why do we adopt them? From fear – that is to say, we consider… Continue reading
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TONGUE SANDWICH, Plagiarist
NOTE: This piece was originally a reblog. It can no longer be found at TONGUE SANDWICH. Turns out, TS is a horrible little plagiarist. You can see an interchange between that vile man and myself below. And what an ironic… Continue reading
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Withdrawing
Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster… Continue reading
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Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A podcast lecture by Abel Gunter from the international conference ‘Nietzsche on Mind and Nature’, held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. See… Continue reading
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