This is it! The final two acts of Faust Part II! It’s the surprisingly straight-forward, if somewhat fragmented, acts IV and V of Goethe’s life’s work. Will Faust be saved? Yes! Will we applaud that fact? No! Will we get sidetracked with a disgusted and frustrated meditation on Faust’s proto-fascist designs and how those designs can be seen at work in the contemporary American culture of this the year of our lord 2020? Damn straight! But we do get to take a look back at where we’ve been in the podcast and try to wrap our heads around what we can take away from Bloom’s “Aristocratic Age” [Spoiler: Montaigne and Don Quixote].

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