Johannes A. Niederhauser

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 Canada and the US. First stop Granville Street, Vancouver. I tell the stories of the people I met during my first month in Vancouver, around the warehouses I worked, the musicians I jammed with, the songs I wrote, the car we bought, my first boss who had emigrated from Persia and who c…

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. Published shortly after his death by his former chaplain William Rawley Bacon here lays out the blueprint for the Royal Society — and in fact for the British Empire with its vast spy network. Not only that though. The New Atlantis, albeit unfinished, is a deeply significant fable for it a…

“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 Culture, and specifically of the only Culture of our time and on our planet which is actually in the phase of fulfilment -the West-Europe an-American.” Thus begins Spengler’s Masterpiece and we are here following him toward the philosophy of the future. You can enrol in our Spengler course here . Seminars begin October 7th 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

Enrol in our Spengler Masterclass 2023 here: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/spengler-the-decline-of-the-west Live seminars begin Saturday October 7th. We meet ten times to figure out what it means to be Faustian. We look forward to meeting you! 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

“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 this year of this young decade and even younger millennium reading two most autumnal thinkers: Nietzsche and Spengler.We begin with a seminar on Nietzsche’s notion of the Death of the Christian God. You can join the seminar here.And we end the year with a ten week Masterclass on Spengler’s seminal work “The Decline of the West.” You can join the course 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

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 lectures on Aesthetics and the notorious notion of the “end of art.”

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In this conversation Prof. Ken Gemes lays out his understanding of Nietzsche’s notorious proclamation that the Christian God is dead and what that means morally for the age to come. This age to come Nietzsche refers to as the age of nihilism which will be with us for “the next 200 years. We are living right in the middle of it.” Ken is teaching a seminar on Nietzsche in September which you can join 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

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?

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 understand ourselves and others outside Eurocentric universalism? What will the world look like when we escape the spectre of progressivism? Join us this October at our Spengler Masterclass. Download the syllabus here: https://www.halkyonguild.org/spengler-the-decline-of-the-west 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