Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel's "Warspeak" on Strategies for Valuing (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism (2020) with Dylan, Seth, and guests Michael Grenke and Jeff Black.
What's a viable counter-ideal to the asceticism that Nietzsche thought is so pervasive? Lise's book works out strategies for re-valuing that emphasize Nietzsche's positive comments about the feminine and the power of words.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:08.0 | You're listening to the Partial Examined Life, Philosophy podcast by some guys who were |
| 0:12.0 | at one point said I'm doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:16.0 | Our question for episode 263 is something like, what does it look like to overcome nihilism? |
| 0:22.0 | For this discussion we read the last two chapters of War Speak, Nietzsche's Victory |
| 0:26.0 | Over Nihilism by Lee's Van Boxel. The discussion Seth and I are joined by Michael |
| 0:31.0 | Grenke who wrote the introduction of War Speak and Jeff Black co-host of the |
| 0:35.0 | Combat and Classics podcast that Lee's was co-founder of. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Dylan Casey striving for super abundant vitality in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| 0:44.0 | This is Seth Pascon, not yet poet philosopher but hopefully warrior philosopher in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:50.0 | Well thank you guys for having us. I'm Jeff Black and I'm in Annapolis, Mal. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Michael Grenke and I'm also an Annapolis. |
| 0:58.0 | Well welcome to the podcast guys. I feel a little bit like we're teaming up on Seth |
| 1:02.0 | because Seth now has three current or former tutors at St. John's on the podcast with him. |
| 1:09.0 | Let me alay those concerns. Annapolis is my de facto adopted hometown. |
| 1:18.0 | I went to school in Severna Park and my mom was the controller for historic Annapolis. |
| 1:25.0 | I worked at the Maryland Inn. I've lived in Eastport and I in my day hung out around the campus |
| 1:32.0 | and knew many Johnny's that little campus Inn to give you an idea of the time frame we're talking about. |
| 1:37.0 | How did you not have that? How did I not know? |
| 1:40.0 | I don't know. Plus you know I've been to Santa Fe a million times |
| 1:43.0 | and we've had an ongoing relationship for advertising. |
| 1:46.0 | So I feel very close. I went to read so spiritually not too far off from the Johnny experience. |
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