topic. Stephen, welcome to the show, how are you?

Well, thanks for the invite.

It's our pleasure.

Thank you for joining us.

Maybe you can let our audience and listeners know what it is you do, what keeps you busy? Oh well I'm a professor of philosophy I teach at Rockford University in the United States

just outside of Chicago and I specialize in the European tradition, so especially Friedrich Nietzsche, whom I understand

we're going to talk about today, probably the most influential philosopher on 20th century philosophy,

but not only philosophy, also political and cultural movements.

For sure, if I'm not mistaken, and you'll be a better place to kind of appreciate this than me

Nietzsche seems to have a seems to have had a bit of a resurgence in recent years.

He seems to have found a new generation, seen a lot more references to it

online. I'm not sure if that's perhaps a Jordan Peterson influence. I seem to think that Jordan Peterson speaks about him a lot,

but maybe you can explain to us why niche is so important from a philosophical standpoint.

Why does he stand out to you?

Well first on the on the resurgence point yes his reputation has gone up and down

mostly up over the course of the 20th century. He died in

1900 and I don't think it's an understatement to say that he's the most

read and most influential philosopher of the of the 20th century even though he died

in 1900s.

An interesting thing about him is that people all over the political spectrum

from liberal capitalists to far-right fascist to Marxist to have read and learned from a people who are

explicitly atheist and people who are strongly

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