Episode 2 – Living Aesthetically

We hope you’ve been enjoying our podcast. On our next episode, we’ll be talking about living aesthetically. We’ll be reading “The Birth of Tragedy” by Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Seducer’s Diary” by Soren Kierkegaard, and this portion of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. We hope to have the episode posted sometime in May. Stay tuned!

Update: First Official Episode

Greetings fellow philosophers! We will be recording the first official episode of The Will to Power Hour on February 28! If you enjoyed the pilot episode, you’ll be blown away by this one! We’ll be discussing Nietzsche’s concept of the will to power. If you’d like to read along, check out the following:

1. “The World as Will and Representation” by Arthur Schopenhauer, Sections 17-21: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/schopenh.htm; and

2. “The Will to Power” by Friedrich Nietzsche: http://www.amazon.com/Will-Power-Friedrich-Nietzsche/dp/0394704371/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422203216&sr=1-1&keywords=will+to+power&pebp=1422203218145&peasin=394704371.

If you’d like to check out some enlightening supplemental materials, take a look at the following works as well:

1. Chapter 12 of “Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography” by Rüdiger Safranski: http://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Philosophical-Biography-R%C3%BCdiger-Safranski/dp/0393323803; and

2. “The Anti-Christ” by Friedrich Nietzsche: http://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Anti-Christ-Twilight-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/0521016886/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422203311&sr=1-5&keywords=the+antichrist+nietzsche.

Stay tuned!

WPH