sleepyphilosophyradio

About sleepyphilosophyradio

Long-form philosophy content for late-night listening and deep focus. We cover the big thinkers - from the Stoics and Aristotle to Camus, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - explained in a calm, steady voice that keeps things interesting without being overstimulating. If you want something substantial to think about during quiet hours, or just appreciate philosophy delivered at a relaxed pace, this is for you.

Publisher

Sleepy Philosophy Radio

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Oct 2025

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Thank You for Listening | Membership on Spotify

   Thank you for listening, whether this is your first episode or your fiftieth. Our regular episodes are free for everyone, and they always take hours of reading and writing. If you'd like to support the show directly, you can become a member on Spotify. Members get our book episodes: each one takes a single book and walks through it, in our own words. On Spotify, members also hear every episode without ad breaks. To join, press play on any of our episodes with a lock, or use this link: https://members.spotify.com/to/sleepyphilo (https://members.spotify.com/to/sleepyphilo) Membership is separate from Spotify Premium. It is available in the US, Canada, the UK, most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. Music: "Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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   8 Oct 2026

   The Darkest Philosopher Who Ever Lived | Philipp Mainländer

   Fall asleep to the story of Mainländer, the philosopher who taught that God has died and death is our redemption. In a rented room by a German river, a mild and dutiful bank clerk finished the strangest book of his century, and then quietly ended his own life. This episode follows Philipp Mainländer, the poet and philosopher who took Schopenhauer's darkness further than anyone had dared. We trace his single great work, The Philosophy of Redemption, and the idea at its heart, that God, before the world began, chose not to exist, and shattered into the universe in order to die. We follow the strange drive he found beneath all life, the calm he took from a running-down cosmos, and the rescue he promised, which is simply rest, and nothing more. Along the way we meet his gentle serenity, his quarrel across time with Nietzsche, and the uncanny way modern science has come to echo his cooling universe. It is a patient walk to the far edge of pessimism, and gently back. Please listen only in safe, restful contexts. Chapters: 0:00:00 Chapter 1: The Man from the Main 0:13:26 Chapter 2: The Case for Wanting Less 0:22:19 Chapter 3: The Architecture of an Ending 0:28:02 Chapter 4: The Suicide of God 0:41:14 Chapter 5: The World Runs Down 0:47:17 Chapter 6: A World Without a Beyond 0:55:45 Chapter 7: The Will to Die 1:07:44 Chapter 8: Redemption Into Nothing 1:17:00 Chapter 9: A Foretaste of Peace 1:22:48 Chapter 10: The Road of Renunciation 1:30:59 Chapter 11: History's Long Sunset 1:42:48 Chapter 12: A Strange Serenity 1:48:42 Chapter 13: The One Who Said It First 1:56:33 Chapter 14: The Quiet Vindication If this helped you rest, follow Sleepy Philosophy Radio on Spotify, and become a member to unlock member only episodes and help keep the show going. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com/)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Tracks used: Anguish, Blue Feather, Evening Fall (Harp), Gregorian Chant, Heartbreaking, Lightless Dawn, Lone Harvest, Magic Forest, Mesmerize, Mourning Song, Oppressive Gloom, Promising Relationship, Quinn's Song: A New Man, Relent, Smoother Move, Sunset at Glengorm, Trio for Piano Cello and Clarinet, Wounded

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   2 Oct 2026

   I Pray God to Rid Me of God | Meister Eckhart for Deep Sleep

   Fall asleep to the medieval mystic who taught ordinary people to pray to be rid of God. At the summit of the medieval Church, a Dominican master who governed dozens of religious houses did something no one of his rank had dared. He carried the deepest theology out of the Latin schools and preached it, in plain German, to nuns and weavers and widows. We follow him from an uncertain village in Germany to the heights of the University of Paris, and into the heart of what he taught, a God beyond all names, an uncreated spark at the bottom of the soul, a birth of the divine within us, and a path that runs not by adding but by letting everything go. We trace his tender words to the grieving, his surprising defense of the working life, and the trial that broke over him at the very end. Then we follow the long silence after his death, and the strange, luminous return that made him a voice for our own restless age. Please listen only in safe, restful contexts. Chapters: 0:00:00 Chapter 1: A German Life 0:11:39 Chapter 2: The Common Tongue 0:20:05 Chapter 3: Being Before Doing 0:25:45 Chapter 4: Being Is God 0:34:21 Chapter 5: A Pure Nothing 0:39:58 Chapter 6: The God Beyond God 0:51:08 Chapter 7: The Spark in the Soul 0:59:36 Chapter 8: The Eternal Birth 1:10:41 Chapter 9: The Art of Letting Go 1:20:07 Chapter 10: Without a Why 1:25:57 Chapter 11: The Breakthrough 1:37:23 Chapter 12: The Swiftest Horse 1:44:54 Chapter 13: Martha in the Kitchen 1:50:42 Chapter 14: In the Field of the Lord 2:01:53 Chapter 15: The Long Silence If this helped you rest, follow Sleepy Philosophy Radio on Spotify, and become a member to unlock member only episodes and help keep the show going. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com/)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Tracks used: Anguish, Blue Feather, Evening Fall (Harp), Gregorian Chant, Heartbreaking, Lightless Dawn, Lone Harvest, Magic Forest, Mesmerize, Mourning Song, Oppressive Gloom, Promising Relationship, Quinn's Song: A New Man, Relent, Smoother Move, Sunset at Glengorm, Trio for Piano Cello and Clarinet, Wounded

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4.7 / 5

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Spotify

4.6 / 5

51 ratings

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