Johannes A. Niederhauser
Episodes
Goethe's Faust: The Founding Myth of Modernity
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Why You Must Read Goethe's Faust
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
"Thinking is a Way of Life": On Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities"
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities“Without doubt the greatest writing, ranking with the finest our epoch has to offer.” — Thomas MannUlr...
Goethe's Scathing Critique of Neoplatonism
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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The Greeks on Chronological and Kairological Time
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I’m reading again from Onians’ excellent work “The Origins of European Thought.”Also, for a limited time Offer (pun intended!) you may use cou...
You're Killing Your Inner Voice!
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cultivate your attention this year This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vi...
Goethe’s Hostility toward the Imagination | Faust, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey
21 Jan 2026
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Here is a link to my Faust course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vis...
The Monetary Logic of Analytic Philosophy and its Eternal Divide from Continental Philosophy
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Analytic philosopher Peter Unger in 2014 declared that analytic philosophy is mostly if not entirely devoted to empty ideas that have no bearing on re...
The Ideology of Frictionless Design and the Obliteration of Memory
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frictionless design is everywhere around us, drawing us into its interfaces, silently habituating us into relinquishing our attention for optimal user...
The Opening of Hegel's "Science of Logic", with Stephen Houlgate
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Houlgate’s scholarly approach to Hegel can be described as a “revised-metaphysical” interpretation of Hegel, which underscores the immanent, pre...
Hölderin "What is Bildung?"
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Nick Land vs. Aleksandr Dugin Debate | Philosophical Commentary
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are they still trying to philosophise or are they just shilling their overlords ideologies? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this w...
Course on Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Heidegger: Enframing as The "Essence" of Technology
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In light of the advent of “AI” slop taking over the virtual space, hyperfinancialisation driving the simulacrum, and all out schizophrenic ideolog...
The Immortalisation Commission: Tracing Transhumanism
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this video I read from John Gray’s “The Immortalisation Commission”. The book is an important document to help us trace the transhumanist wor...
Aristotle on the Relationship of Health and Virtue
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this video lecture I’m reading from my book on Eudaimonia in Aristotle. If yYou can purchase my book here. You may also be interested in our new ...
They're Killing the Humanities On Purpose!
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education argues that university administrators and their 19th century social-Darwinian ideology are to bl...
On Health and Virtue: A Journey to Wellness with Plato and Aristotle
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you for listening! Here is a link to join Thomas’ unique course on Health and Virtue: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/philosophy-of-hea...
Introducing my New Book: Aristotle's Eudaimonia
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The book is available via Amazon:USA UK GermanyI taly France This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc...
Goethe's Faust Enrolment Closing
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Save your soul: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/goethe-faust This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or ...
Goethe's Faust Part One: An Introduction
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join my Faust Course: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/goethe-faust Live seminars begin Sunday, April 13th. Use Coupon Code WAGER to take £50 o...
Five Years Young: My Online Philosophy Academy
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us today: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b...
John Vervaeke: God and the Between
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you find yourself lost because of the decadent dichotomies of modernity, and the hermeneutics of suspicion from postmodernity, "God and the Between...
Fighting the Transhumanist Agenda with Humour
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ewan’s new novel “For Emma” is out on the 28th of March. Website: ewanmorrison.comX: @mrewanmorrisonNovel: For Emma.Amazon UK edition pre-order:...
Italian Futurism Weekend Seminar
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join my Italian Futurism seminar today: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/italian-futurism March 29&30 , 5-8pm UK time"We want to sing the love o...
God and the Between | with John Vervaeke
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his 8-week course, John Vervaeke will bring together William Desmond’s central ideas about the fourfold sense of Being which will lead us into a ...
Futurist Stream
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join me for my next live video in the app This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episod...
Italian Futurism vs. Feeble Accelerationism
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On one of the most neglected but most impactful movements of the 20th century. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other sub...
How to write on the great philosophers
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here is a link to my Intellectual Life Course which addresses these and other issues: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/the-intellectual-life Th...
Building a Philosophical Life Online
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIn this wide-ranging conversation Mahmoud and I discuss our experien...
Is Donald Trump Spengler's Caesar? On the Decline of the West
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Trump the Caesarian figure Spengler predicted? The man who breaks the rule of Money and its form of government, democracy? My analysis. Just so the...
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, How to reach Eudaimonia
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture I introduce Aristotle’s definition of eudaimonia, usually translated as happiness or the good life, and also his distinction between...
Nietzsche: Nihilism, Death of Christianity, and the Need for Myth | with Ken Gemes
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIt was my distinct honour to be able to sit down with Prof Ken Gemes...
Introducing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is usually read as the foundational text of so-called Virtue Ethics. That is fair enough. However, the text itself al...
Stephen Houlgate: A Hegelian Life
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging dialogue Professor Stephen Houlgate and Johannes Niederhauser discuss what it means to lead a Hegelian life — a practice which ...
Introduction to Hegel's Science of Logic
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One hour freestyle lecture on the most important philosophy book of the past two centuries. If you have never heard of the Science of Logic — you ar...
Will Beauty save the World? On Mass Tourism and Urban Life
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Spoiler: No, it won’t. Beauty will destroy the world, if anything. The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Even better than the real thing? This is a publ...
Why read Plato
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas was recently asked by one of his students at his Plato course why read Plato at all. It’s a fair question. Why read an old thinker if his “...
On Plato, Beauty, and the Future of Higher Education
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the main difference between legacy institutions of higher learning and the newly emerging online first digital schools? In this dialogue Thoma...
With Plato against Postmodern Nihilism
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to think of beauty today as primarily if not exclusively aesthetic. In fact, we consider beauty as subjective, as a matter of personal taste, ...
Plato: Seeing the Forms through Beauty
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging conversation Thomas Jockin and yours truly converse around the importance of beauty in Plato’s philosophy. We bring in Aristotl...
Plato on Beauty
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our new Plato course is now officially open for enrolment! Join our summer school today and rethink what you thought you knew about beauty. We tend t...
Plato on Beauty and Virtue
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to think of beauty today as primarily if not exclusively aesthetic. In fact, we consider beauty as subjective, as a matter of personal taste, ...
Studying Philosophy at a Time of Automated Thinking
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m here reading an essay by my friend Max Gottschlich, an Austrian philosopher teaching in Linz.Here is a link to the essay. This is a public episo...
Tod und Technik in der Spätphilosophie Martin Heideggers
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Auf Einladung von Max Gottschlich hielt ich am 25.4.2024 an der Katholischen Privatuniversität Linz einen Vortrag zu Tod und Technik in der Spätphil...
Darkness by Lord Byron
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In honour of Lord Byron's bicentenary I read his masterful vision of the future, "Darkness". He knew, Byron knew. May you rest in Peace, Lord Byron. T...
Why Kant Matters
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s ever been one most important philosopher in modernity it is Immanuel Kant. Whatever your interests in modern philosophy — be it Hegel, ...
Kant and the Domination of Nature
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture I address the true scope of the Copernican Turn and why it is that with Kant we lose access to nature. We will discuss all this and mo...
The True project of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The common misconceptions about Kant’s First Critique are 1) that it is an epistemology and 2) that Kant combines rationalism and empiricism. But he...
Kant's First Critique
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason was an earth-shattering moment. Not only was reason and its presuppositions seriously critiqued fo...
Plato in Borges' Garden
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Step into the maze of temporal dimensions. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epis...
The Starry Heavens Above Me
20 Mar 2024
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Bergson's crude misreading of Kant
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is rather incredible how revered Bergson is given his crude misreading of Kant. In this talk I take diagnose this misreading and also show where Be...
John Vervaeke: Ultimate Reality — God and Beyond
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dive into an illuminating exploration of divine existence and the nature of the cosmos, gaining insights into philosophical, theological, and scientif...
Emerson: The Over-Soul | The Whiskey Lectures
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIn the true spirit of com-mentare, of thinking along with, I read he...
The Cambridge Platonists | with Douglas Hedley
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Cambridge Platonists are today largely forgotten. But they were hugely influential during their time and especially also on the development of Ger...
The Importance of Philosophy
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Philosophy shall be the Queen of the Arts and Sciences once more! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or g...
Plato on the Wonder of Philosophy
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
διὰ τὸ θαυμάζειν οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ νῦν καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἤρξαντο φιλοσοφεῖν.Through wo...
Empedocles at Mount Etna
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new experimental video of which there shall be many more. In autumn of 2022 I spent several months in Sicily and also got to travel to Mount Etna. I...
Plato's Republic - 2024 Course Introduction
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I introduce my new course on Plato’s Republic. Seminars for the course begin 20th of January 2024. You can enrol here. This is a pub...
Vancouver Diaries #1: Arriving
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comTravel back in time with me to the year I lived and travelled across...
Esoterica #1 Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis"
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comFrancis Bacons’s New Atlantis is a most astounding utopian fable. ...
Spengler: Poetic History of the Future
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“IN this book is attempted for the first time the venture of predetermining history, of following the still untravelled stages in the destiny of a C...
The Destiny of Faustian Man - and of Bitcoin
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enrol in our Spengler Masterclass 2023 here: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/spengler-the-decline-of-the-west Live seminars begin Saturday Octo...
On Spengler and Nietzsche
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.” - Friedrich Nietzsche We enter into the autumn of...
Hegel's "Aesthetics" and the End of Art | with Dr. Filip Niklas
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comDr. Filip Niklas and Johannes A. Niederhauser discuss Hegel’s lect...
Spengler's "Decline of the West" is not what you think
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You can join our Spengler Masterclass here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus ep...
Nietzsche "God is Dead!"
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation Prof. Ken Gemes lays out his understanding of Nietzsche’s notorious proclamation that the Christian God is dead and what that m...
Nietzsche on Nihilism, Life Affirmation and the Übermensch
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comHow can we affirm life in the face of the death of God and nihilism?
Spengler's The Decline of the West
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This fall we face our destiny head on. What does it mean to be Faustian? What does it mean to be born of the Occident in its final phase? How can we u...
Philosophy of Cybernetics Online Course - Baudrillard, McLuhan, Stiegler, Deleuze, Han
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We live today under the spell of cybernetics. If we are to be masters of our machines, we must first understand the meaning of mechanics, cybernetics,...
Spiritual Cybernetics
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The digital revolution is undoubtedly the most disruptive technological shift in the history of mankind. The internet, combined with advances in compu...
The Whiskey Lectures #3: Emerson's Essay "History"
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIn this final episode I conclude my reading and commentary of Emerso...
"Beyond Nihilism" - Introduction with John Vervaeke
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. John Vervaeke joins Johannes Niederhauser to introduce his new course “Beyond Nihilism.”John has developed the course exclusively for Halkyo...
Heidegger vs. Deleuze on Technology
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Tolstoy: What is Art?
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comChris and Johannes discuss Tolstoy’s seminal but little known essa...
The Guild as a Model for Higher Education
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Hochschild and Johannes discuss their ideas around the medieval guild of scholars as a model for today's university. Johannes is the founder of ...
The Whiskey Lectures #2: Emerson, Memory, Apollo, and American Frontier Spirit
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comImage: Guido Reni “Aurora”, in public domain. Source: Wiki Commo...
Heidegger, Being and Time, Curiosity, Vision and Teaching | with Seth Binsted
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comSeth and Johannes discuss §36 on curiosity in Martin Heidegger's Be...
The Whiskey Lectures #1: Emerson's "History" Part I
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comI’m reading from Emerson’s essay “History,” in which the Eng...
Hegel: With what must Science Begin?
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of a series on Hegel’s philosophy in the run-up to Filip’s Hegel Masterclass This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this ...
Baudrillard: Simulacra & Simulation
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join our Baudrillard Seminar here This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...
Introduction to Hegel Masterclass
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You can enrol in our Hegel Masterclass here This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epis...
Office Hour with Dr. Niederhauser
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enrol in Baudrillard Seminar here This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vis...