Deadbeat Philosophy

Philosophy, just a little less reliable. deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com

Deadbeat Philosophy is a society podcast hosted by Dave Baumeister, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dave Baumeister hosts Deadbeat Philosophy, a society show with 31 episodes published.

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  Everything has an end . . . including Deadbeat Philosophy

  Dec 31, 20251h 2mS0

  <p>There’s a saying in German: everything has an end, except for the sausage, which has two . . . So it is with podcasts as with human beings. Everything has its end. Everything ends, sometime. Even the sausage, which simply ends twice. Deadbeat Philosophy is no sausage (at least not in the traditional sense). Hence, its end is singular. Just like 2025: it only ends once. And its end, like that of 2025, is now.</p><p>In this final episode of the Deadbeat Philosophy Podcast, Dave signs off, and leaves you with a curated sequence of short works released over the past ye...

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  Plato vs. Kant, Aristotle vs. Nietzsche - Who’s the Greatest Philosopher?

  Dec 18, 202543 minS0

  <p>In this first of two “year in review” episodes, Dave shares two of his favorite pieces from the past year–a pair of “philosophical smackdowns” featuring titans from the history of western philosophy. The first pits Plato against Immanuel Kant, the second Aristotle against Friedrich Nietzsche. Who will win out? Whose text should you gift to your mother on mother’s day? Watch to find out!</p><p>Featuring analyses of the following works:</p><p>Plato, Republic</p><p>Plato, Phaedo</p><p>Aristotle, Politics</p><p>Aristotle, Poetics</p><p>Kant, Critique of Pure Reason</p><p>Kant, Ground...

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  Stories for a Better Future (w/ Kristen Jakstis)

  Dec 4, 20251h 1mS0

  <p>Kristen Jakstis is a researcher at the Institute for Landscape Planning and Ecology at the University of Stuttgart. In this episode, recorded live at the Museum Hegel-Haus, Dave and Kristen explore the power of storytelling as a vehicle for optimism, critique, and experimentation in the midst of the unfolding global environmental crisis. They cover Kristen’s doctoral research in urban ecology, the contribution of the history of philosophy (and of Hobbes and Rousseau in particular) to how the human/nature relationship is framed today, and the need for a “Swabian Sasquatch.” They also open a window onto the interdisciplinary projec...

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  Revolution or Collapse? On Humans and Nature (w/ Andrew George)

  Nov 20, 20251h 10mS0

  <p>Andrew George is an Australian environmental activist and social organizer. Dave and Andrew chat about Andrew’s life on an uninsurable floodplain, the material weight and faux-permanence of urbanized consumer-capitalist existence, the peril and promise of social media and AI in our age of environmental crisis, Rousseau, Roger Hallam, and the dialectic of revolution and collapse shaping the (in)human future of planet earth.</p><p>Andrew’s newsletter (subscribe!)</p><p>Andrew’s Recommendations:</p><p>Rutger Bregman, “Humankind: A Hopeful History” (Book)</p><p>“KPop Demon Hunters” (Film)</p><p>Renata Rosa, “Zunido da Mata” (Album)</p> <br/><br/>This is a...

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  Halloween Special: Death and the Devil in Goethe, Dante, and Others (w/ Jacob Barto)

  Oct 31, 20251h 27mS0

  <p>Jacob Barto is an expert in German literature and language, currently adjunct assistant professor of German at Bellevue College. In this Halloween-themed conversation, Dave and Jacob claw their way through a splattering of spooky classics from European literary history, encountering as they go child-seducing ghosts, philosophical demon-devil hybrids, and even a few subversively bloodthirsty lesbian vampires. They end by sinking their teeth into the question: what accounts for the power that horror as a genre has within society today?</p><p>Works discussed, among others: Goethe, “Erlkönig” (Poem, 1782); Goethe, “Faust” (Verse Tragedy, 1808/1832), Schubert, “Erlkönig” (Lied, 1815). Dante, “Inferno” (Poem, 1321), Sheri...

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