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A podcast about Nietzsche's ideas, his influences, and those he influenced. Philosophy and cultural commentary through a Nietzschean lens. Support the show at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections A few collected essays and thoughts: https://untimely-reflections.blogspot.com/

Latest episodes

  • Untimely Reflections #47: Melanie Coughlin - Nishitani, Nietzsche & The Kyoto School

    October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Melanie Coughlin, a scholar whose work focuses on Nishitani and the Kyoto school, joined me for a conversation that will hopefully provide a nice conclusion to the recent focus on Buddhism. We discussed karma, the misleading nature of…

  • 151: Julian Jaynes, part 2 - The Witness of History

    September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

    How did the bicameral mind emerge, and how did consciousness eventually take its place? Join me for an exploration of ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, in which Julian Jaynes traces the evidence over the centuries that suggest a…

  • 150: Julian Jaynes, part 1 - Hearing Voices

    September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    What is consciousness? Julian Jaynes rejects all of the popular answers: that consciousness is thinking, reason, memory, or the capacity for learning. Nor does he think it can be accounted for as a merely accumulative development of…

  • 149: The Laṅkāvatāra Sutra

    September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

    In this episode, we're going to discuss what is likely the founding text of the Zen tradition, the Laṅkāvatāra Sutra. According to some of the earliest sources on Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen in China, the "Lanka" was the teaching whose…

  • 148: Keiji Nishitani - Religion and Nothingness, part 2

    September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    This episode begins with an analysis of Baizhang's wild fox koan found in the Wumenguan, which we will use as a jumping off point for understanding the paradoxical relationship of the enlightened person with karma. This opens up into the…

  • 147: Keiji Nishitani - Religion & Nothingness, part 1

    September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

    UPDATE: I accidentally uploaded part two to Spotify instead of part one. This has been fixed. To those who got to listen to the entire two-parter already already, lucky! But, the audio should now be part one. Join me for a deep dive into…

  • 146: Extinction (Nietzsche vs Buddhism, pt. 2)

    August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

    For all that is admirable in Buddhism, Nietzsche fundamentally opposes the movement towards the Last Man that Buddhism not only cannot oppose, but may even help bring forth. Why does the notion of a "European Buddhism" haunt Nietzsche's…

  • 145: The Religion of Self-Redemption (Nietzsche vs Buddhism, pt. 1)

    August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 53 min

    Welcome back to The Nietzsche Podcast, Season Seven! We're beginning with a two-part episode concerning Nietzsche's view of Buddhism. This episode, we will consider some of the basic teachings of Buddhism, and explore why Nietzsche viewed…