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Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
Jimmy Burke
30 episodes
4 weeks ago
"Message the show" Joy, peace on earth, and good will to all men: Christmas is supposed to be a Christian festival. But what might it mean after the death of God? In this special end-of-year episode of The Will to Joy, we explore Nietzsche’s surprising relationship with Christmas — from his childhood enchantment with the festive season, through intimate Christmases with the Wagners, to his darkest and loneliest winters marked by estrangement, illness, and radical self-overcoming. Drawing on N...
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"Message the show" Joy, peace on earth, and good will to all men: Christmas is supposed to be a Christian festival. But what might it mean after the death of God? In this special end-of-year episode of The Will to Joy, we explore Nietzsche’s surprising relationship with Christmas — from his childhood enchantment with the festive season, through intimate Christmases with the Wagners, to his darkest and loneliest winters marked by estrangement, illness, and radical self-overcoming. Drawing on N...
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Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
Nietzsche at Christmas — A Will to Joy Special
"Message the show" Joy, peace on earth, and good will to all men: Christmas is supposed to be a Christian festival. But what might it mean after the death of God? In this special end-of-year episode of The Will to Joy, we explore Nietzsche’s surprising relationship with Christmas — from his childhood enchantment with the festive season, through intimate Christmases with the Wagners, to his darkest and loneliest winters marked by estrangement, illness, and radical self-overcoming. Drawing on N...
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4 weeks ago
39 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
29. Afterword: Nietzsche, Sex, Power.
"Message the show" In this special wrap-up episode, I take you back through the journey of The Will to Joy’s first season—what we explored, what we uncovered, and how far this project has already evolved. From the human condition in all its frustration and striving, to the three-part exposition of will to power, this episode closes one chapter and opens the next. I also look ahead to what’s coming: – the future of the podcast – the launch of my forthcoming book Nietzsche. Sex. Power. A Manife...
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1 month ago
33 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
28. Will to Power - Nietzsche’s theory of everything and what it means for you. Season finale, Part 3
"Message the show" Welcome to the third and final part of the Will to Joy Season Finale. This episode is going to be the most momentous. We wrestle with will to power as it relates to you and to your life. You'll be faced with the most consequential question—that of the value of your own existence. We track Nietzsche’s break from Schopenhauer’s pessimism, the shift from “will to life” to “will to power,” and the emergence of Dionysus as the figure who dissolves all boundaries: between d...
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1 month ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
27. Will to Power - Nietzsche’s theory of everything and what it means for you. Season finale, Part 2
"Message the show" Dionysus wants to make you stronger, more evil, more profound – and more beautiful. In this second part of the season finale, we follow that cosmic pied piper into the heart of Nietzsche’s most explosive idea: the will to power. Last time, we dismantled the myth of free will and showed that selection is the basic logic of reality – from molecules to memes. Now we pick up those threads and begin to trace their connection to Nietzsche’s patron deity. We explore Dionysus...
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2 months ago
59 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
26. Will to Power - Nietzsche’s theory of everything and what it means for you. Season finale, Part 1
"Message the show" Free will is the sacred cow of our modern civilisation. Everyone believes they have it but no one can justify this belief. In our season finale of The Will to Joy, we put that belief on the chopping block. I start by offering up a simple challenge: demonstrate free will. When that inevitably fails we follow the chain of consequences and travel into the deepest strata of Nietzsche’s philosophy. This is the first part of a three part episode and it's most ambitious epis...
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2 months ago
46 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
25. On his master's business - Nietzsche, masters, and slaves
"Message the show" As Nietzsche writes, "he who cannot obey himself, will be commanded". The ability to obey oneself - to have an internal locus of authority rather than an external one - this is how, in our era of purported equality, a master is distinguished from a slave. But what about you? Who or what do you obey? And, in obeying, are you compromising yourself, or are you maintaining your own integrity, your own autonomy, your own authority? This episode in an extra recording from the Wil...
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3 months ago
22 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
24. An Economy of Bodies: Nietzsche, Sex, and Beauty.
"Message the show" Special Episode: An Economy of Bodies – Nietzsche, Sex, Beauty, and the Will to Power This week’s episode is something different. I’m sharing the recording of my presentation at the annual Friedrich Nietzsche Society conference at Queen's University in Belfast (6th September). My paper, An Economy of Bodies, brings Nietzsche’s philosophy into dialogue with evolutionary psychology and behavioural science to explore sex, beauty, culture, social status, destiny, and what Nietz...
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4 months ago
43 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
23. Wrestling with the Spirit of Gravity
"Message the show" Recorded on the rugged trails of the Lake District, with a stupidly heavy pack, sore knees, and a wild Nietzschean esprit! In this episode, I yomp alone through across 40 miles of peaks and silence, sleeping out, drinking from streams, and thinking deeply about beauty, power, shame, and the weight we carry—both physically and psychologically. Topics include: – The brutality and exhilaration of hiking peak-to-peak solo – Extracts from my upcoming paper: An Economy of Bodies ...
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4 months ago
43 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
22. Can your suffering be sanctified?
"Message the show" This week on the Will to Joy podcast – Can suffering be more than something to endure? Nietzsche thought so. In a world obsessed with comfort, safety, and minimising pain, he argued for the discipline of great suffering as the forge of strength, depth, and creativity. We explore the difference between meaningless and meaningful pain, the dangers of a life anaesthetised from hardship, and how struggle feeds the will to power. From Greek tragedy to modern grief, we ask:...
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5 months ago
37 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
21. On self-overcoming part II
"Message the show" We continue our discussion of Nietzschean self-overcoming and explore a range of techniques for changing behaviour that scientific evidence tells us work. You will descend into the world of Nietzsche’s drives psychology and discover that each of us is inhabited by a rabble of unruly drives all competing for expression. Their jostling causes us confusion about what we really want from life and hinders our attempts to get it. You will discover that the noise created by these ...
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5 months ago
56 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
20. On self-overcoming
"Message the show" Why Won’t You Do What You Want You to Do? You know what you want. You want to be fitter, healthier, stronger, more focused, more creative. You want to stop scrolling, quit drinking, wake up earlier, stop saying yes to people who don’t deserve it. And yet—you don’t do it. Why? In this episode, we explore the tension between desire and action, reason and impulse, intention and failure. We delve into the fragmentary and conflicting human psyche to understand how self-con...
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6 months ago
40 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
19. Body is destiny
"Message the show" "The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reaches up into the topmost summit of his spirit." Beyond Good and Evil, 75 In this episode, we begin with a plunge into the sacred animality of the body: sensation, desire, and the ecstatic collapse of self into the immediacy of flesh. From there, we spiral outward—into vignettes of shame, overcompensation, resentment, and neurosis. Fatness, baldness, shortness, beauty, disability, disease, all the contingencies of anat...
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6 months ago
40 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
18. Is the examined life worth living? Nietzsche and the curse of consciousness
"Message the show" Socrates claimed the unexamined life isn’t worth living—but Nietzsche wasn’t so sure. What if our acute self-awareness is the source of our suffering? In this episode, we journey from the carefree contentment of grazing cattle to the haunted introspection of the modern human. We explore Nietzsche’s radical claim that consciousness is not our crowning glory but a socially evolved disease—a by-product of language, hierarchy, and domestication that alienates us from nature, fr...
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7 months ago
28 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
17. The long war against the body
"Message the show" What if history’s greatest heresy wasn’t the rejection of God—but the rejection of the body? In today’s show, we follow Nietzsche’s assault on the Christian hatred of the flesh. From medieval monks who saw filth as virtue, to saints who mutilated themselves in pursuit of ‘purity,’ we uncover a disturbing legacy: the systematic degradation of the body in the name of the soul. Christianity didn’t merely neglect the body—it waged war on it. But this isn’t just religious histor...
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7 months ago
42 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
16. Nietzsche’s proof you have no soul - and why that's a good thing
"Message the show" What if your precious soul was just superstition? What if your thoughts, feelings, and identity weren’t the whispers of a divine spirit, but the murmurs of your gut, your glands, your genes? In this episode of Will to Joy, we dissect Nietzsche’s radical physio-psychology—his claim that you are your body and nothing more, period. Join me for a guided meditation exercise as we vivisect the soul, dissolve the illusion of mind-body dualism, and expose the raw, physi...
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8 months ago
40 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
15. EXTRA: Announcement of podcast name change
"Message the show" Join me for an important announcement about the future of the show. Your thoughts on this news most welcome using the "message the show" hotlink. Support the show If you value Will to Joy (formerly Becoming Übermensch) and you want more, please ensure its continued existence by supporting the show If you are interested in delving deeper into this work and are hungry for greater challenges, I also now have a Patreon. Become a De Profundis Member and access exclusive episod...
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8 months ago
6 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
14. Against the Despisers of the Body - Nietzsche's dismantling of "The Soul"
"Message the show" You have been taught to despise your body—to believe that your true worth lies in some hidden soul, while your flesh is merely a burden or a prison. But what if that is one of the greatest misunderstandings of the human condition ever? What if you are not a spirit trapped in meat, but the body itself—living, powerful, beautiful, and brimming with deep intelligence? In this episode, we tear away the numbing illusions that have kept you weak, confused, and divided...
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8 months ago
40 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
13. EXTRA: Technique for establishing positive habits
"Message the show" In this bonus episode, I share with you a proven, evidence-based technique for embedding positive behaviours in your life: the establishing of habits.In this bonus mini-episode of Becoming Übermensch, we explore the art of forming positive habits through the lens of Nietzschean self-overcoming and modern behavioural science. Nietzsche wrote that “the body is a great wisdom”—so how do we train it well? You’ll learn a simple but powerful routine to help you hardwire exercise ...
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9 months ago
13 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
12. My attempted 100 mile hike
"Message the show" Something different this week. Join me as I re-attempt a 100 mile hike along the South Down's Way in Southern England in just three days, wild camping along the way. Naturally, there will be talk of Nietzsche and a little about your devoted host's personal background and the events that brought about this Becoming Übermensch project. Put on your walking boots and shoulder your pack. As the Romans used to say: "it is solved by walking." Support the show If you value Be...
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9 months ago
35 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
11. Nietzsche's Will to Power and a new Hierarchy of Needs
"Message the show" In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we plunge deeper into Nietzsche’s concept of will to power as the underlying principle of life, reinterpreting Maslow’s hierarchy of needs through this radical lens. We explore how all living organisms—plants, animals, and humans—express a form of power not through conscious intention, but through their very being itself. Human consciousness, Nietzsche argues, is simply the latest elaboration of a deeper, inexorable, evolved, physiolo...
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9 months ago
50 minutes

Will to Joy: Nietzsche for Life
"Message the show" Joy, peace on earth, and good will to all men: Christmas is supposed to be a Christian festival. But what might it mean after the death of God? In this special end-of-year episode of The Will to Joy, we explore Nietzsche’s surprising relationship with Christmas — from his childhood enchantment with the festive season, through intimate Christmases with the Wagners, to his darkest and loneliest winters marked by estrangement, illness, and radical self-overcoming. Drawing on N...