<![CDATA[Wandervogel Radiocast]]>
www.wandervogel.art]]>https://www.wandervogel.art/podcastSubstackTue, 28 Jul 2026 19:13:32 GMThttps://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/515179.rssGildhelmPublishing high-quality essays and radiocasts on nature, philosophy, and religion.episodicGildhelmgildedhelm@protonmail.comNo<![CDATA[Radiocast No. 4: Eros & Psyche]]>Ludwig Klages is arguably one of the richest philosophers of the continental and vitalist traditions, and yet, his concepts and beliefs remain obscure in the Anglophone world, even despite growing popularity. The surface level slogans attributed to him—the anti-modernist, the anti-rationalist, the primitivist, the environmentalist—typically fail in giving his philosophy its due depth. Here, we set about explaining a number of his key concepts to give a complete “image” of his worldview, particularly through his early work, Vom Kosmogonischen Eros (1922).

Tune in for these things and many interesting tangents…

* Klages the scientist: psychology, characterology, & rivalry w/ Freud

* Was Klages the true successor to Nietzsche & Goethe?

* On the meaning of symbols and their appearances

* Seele and Geist properly understood

* Klages’ theory of the will: repression of the vital drives

* Are many “vitalists” actually so, or are they just Stoics?

* Klages’ teaches you how to pick up women by critiquing Plato

* Eros of a distance — ancestors, ecstasy, and Novalis’s blue flower

* Goethe as Seelenforscher; the daimonic

* The lie of the “eternal return”

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* An outline of Das Mutterecht; “cultural” matriarchy

* Hetairism & “Mother-right”, early chthonic religion

* Women’s revolt against nature

* Dionysus, not Apollo, topples the matriarchy

* Bachofen debunked via primate testicles

* An appreciation of the “night side” of religion & life

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Tune in for these things and many interesting tangents…

* What happened to the environmental movement?

* Nostalgia for Planet Earth, left vs. right environmentalism, “stewardship”

* Nature as the basis for all worldviews; ecology in Ratzel & the right at large

* Darwin as the final adversary of Plato; ensuing resurgence of pre-Socratics

* Christianity and evolution; 1860 Oxford debate & Scopes Trial

* Darwin as the reason for the birth of vitalism

* Haeckel, monism, and animism

* The new world after Darwin

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Further Reading:

* Winckelmann’s Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works, published by our friend Rogue Scholar, with a foreword from Bronze Age Pervert.

* Walter Pater’s The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry.

* Henry Hatfield’s Aesthetic Paganism in German Literature.

* Excerpts from Trevelyan’s Goethe and the Greeks.

* Translation of Walter Otto’s The Greek Mythos of the Gods in Goethe and Hölderlin, at Cult of the Dark Gods:



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