Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah - Modern Civilization And Messiahs - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century pessimist philosopher and environmentalist Peter Wessel Zapffe's "The Last Messiah" It focuses specifically on the final parts of the work, where he considers and rejects several possible solutions to the problem posed by modern society for the human animal beset by a surplus of consciousness and a tendency to fall into "cosmic panic" when realizing their existential condition. He then narrates the coming of a "last messiah", who has stripped their soul naked and subjected themselves to the most profound questioning, who advocates no longer reproducing and letting the human race die out. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - - or at BuyMeACoffee - You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - Get Zapffe's The Last Messiah -

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Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah - Modern Civilization And Messiahs - Sadler's Lectures is an episode from Sadler's Lectures by Gregory B. Sadler.

This episode is 00:12:59 long.

This episode was published on Apr 23, 2026.

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