Johannes A. Niederhauser

With the ever refreshing mind of Carla Berenice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

I am going a ten week course on Being and Time next year in honour of its centenary publication. Download the syllabus today and be the first to hear when enrolment opens in early December. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Take your understanding of Nietzsche to the next level . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Michael has been teaching German to people from all walks of life for more than a quarter century. And as more and more people have been asking me how best to learn German to read German philosophers in the original I thought I’d invite him on to talk about the best techniques and approaches. Michael also runs his own German language school “ Smarter German ”. Michael’s courses will help you learn...

Trace the beginnings of the human Spirit in Egypt with my colleague Carla Berenice ’s course The Egyptian Mind «Egypt is the Land of the Symbol» Hegel In his lectures on the «Philosophy of Art», or rather on how Spirit fulfils itself and comes to itself in and through art and how we can trace this coming-to-be in artworks, Hegel writes that Ancient «Egypt is the land of the symbol.» Egypt is where...

In his lectures on Aesthetics Hegel famously states that Ancient «Egypt is the land of the symbol.» In our age, the land of the symbol has been reduced to a repository of signs, of empty signifiers like the Mummy that must serve as some sort of simulated past that guarantees us that we indeed have history, serve as an anchor for some sort of imagined mythic origin and past. Hence the mummy, a sacr...

Why does our culture turn to the mummy into an object of fear and horror? Carla Berenice enlightens us in her fascinating lecture. Her course on the Egyptian Mind is now open for enrolment . We start Sunday, August 16th. More details on the enrolment page. Use the coupon code PYRAMID for 20% off the live cohort tier. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscriber...

My final verdict on the worst adaptation of Homer ever made. No wonder Ben Shapiro and Pageau love it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Even though Plato apparently bans Homer alongside other poets from his Ideal City, he still heralds Odysseus as an ideal hero. Plato even ends his Republic with a continuation of the myth of Odysseus. Plato lets the soul of Odysseus choose new life-pattern before it is reborn. And its choice is remarkable: After having gone through the heroic life Odysseus chooses the life-pattern of a layman. No...

Reading Adorno again on Odysseus I was struck by the simplistic and all too obvious subversion. Adorno understands Odysseus, who would have thought it, as a bourgeois, or rather as the burgeois archetype. While this can be easily wiped away as a case of extreme presentism, and, dare I say, of rather bourgeois presentism on the part of Theodor himself, Adorno’s more dangerous but equally intolerabl...

This course is a lot better. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Some musings on the state of Academic philosophy and how to read philosophy today. Also, an invitation to join my Halkyon Philosophy Academy. And just this weekend 25% off all our courses. Use coupon HALKYON at the checkout. I see you in Arcadia. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

In this dialogue Carla and Johannes explore ancient Egyptian civilisation and their profound answers to the human condition. Our discussion focuses on how their conceptualisation of life, deeply tied to afterlife beliefs, provided coherence for thousands of years. The connection between their religion and civilisation is evident in how they addressed fundamental questions about existence. This is...

And when you’re ready to understand your time, join this course. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

If you happen to be one of the truly inquisitive minds who long to understand themselves and this age, this wondrous period we thoughtlessly refer to as modernity, then you must by all means read Goethe's second Faust. It is this is his true Faust, for here the Faustian spirit interwoven with Mephisto comes into its own and births modernity. This is a text not for the faint of heart and only the t...

Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities “Without doubt the greatest writing, ranking with the finest our epoch has to offer.” — Thomas Mann This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

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I’m reading again from Onians’ excellent work “The Origins of European Thought.” Also, for a limited time Offer (pun intended!) you may use coupon KAIROS for 25% off all my philosophy courses here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Cultivate your attention this year This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Here is a link to my Faust course. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Analytic philosopher Peter Unger in 2014 declared that analytic philosophy is mostly if not entirely devoted to empty ideas that have no bearing on reality whatsoever. Not only are they empty in this regard however. They are also empty in themselves. This, in turn, makes them sort of monetary. Like money, analytic formal logic can randomly be applied to any given context (thereby destroying the co...

Frictionless design is everywhere around us, drawing us into its interfaces, silently habituating us into relinquishing our attention for optimal user engagement. Not only the digital spaces we inhabit also the analogue is increasingly subjected to be frictionless. This denial of being, of the negativity inherent in being obliterates memory, history, time. How can we think and act to escape this?...

Houlgate’s scholarly approach to Hegel can be described as a “revised-metaphysical” interpretation of Hegel, which underscores the immanent, presuppositionless development of speculative thought in Hegel’s system. This reading challenges influential critiques by thinkers like Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze, who accuse Hegel of adhering to a predetermined conception of being....

In a letter to his mother from October 1798 Friedrich Hölderlin explains his reasons for having left his position as a private tutor with a wealthy family in Frankfurt. According to the young poet the degradation of tutors to mere servants and the transactional relationship that results from this view diminishes severely the possibility of genuine Bildung. Learn more about Hölderlin’s Poetic Ideal...

Are they still trying to philosophise or are they just shilling their overlords ideologies? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com