Audio links:
Topics: The drama of The Will to Power // My earlier position // What was Nietzsche’s sister’s actual involvement? // The book’s connection to the Nazis // The themes from The Will to Power
Transcription: Forthcoming
Sources:
- Robert Matthews, “‘Madness’ of Nietzsche was cancer not syphilis,” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nietzsche-was-cancer-not-syphilis.html.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, translators. 1967.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power. R. Kevin Hill, editor and translator, Penguin, 2017.
Related:
- Nietzsche and the Nazis page links to print and audio editions of the book
- Nietzsche and the Nazis Documentary
- 22 points from Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals
- Zarathustra’s predatory collectivism
- Dissenter interview on Nietzsche, the Nazis, and the Pomo
- Foucault as Nietzschean: on knowledge as injustice
- Excerpt from my 1998 lecture on how Nietzsche Perfectly Forecasts the Postmodernist Left
- Nietzsche and Rand: 96 Similarities and Differences
- Interview with R. Kevin Hill
The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.
Hello Dr. Hicks,
Thank you for your Podcast. I have been listening to Open College driving to work and back. That is 90 mins a day of well invested listening and learning the last couple of weeks; so, thank you for getting your work out there. I started to become familiar with your work from the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ podcast lectures. I have learned and come to understand complicated material more from podcasts featured by you and the IDW characters than over my entire Undergraduate and Graduate Degree. I also think the ‘wherever you are’ Daily News is dead or dying… other than reading/watching it to see what they are up to.
However, my question is or maybe a request: would you consider creating a Tab on your website for a great book list (I looked at Philosophy text’s on your webpage, I am just not sure if it is for a course, but not to say I should not read it). But For example, I’ve been reading through Dr. Peterson’s book list on his website for a couple years and It has been great. I would love to see your ‘Great Book’ list. I think it would be really F&&king cool.
Getting your Explaining PM, and Nietzsche books.
Regards,
Damon Greenaway
Ontario
Hi Damon: That’s a good idea — for me to put up a great books list.
Here’s a partial start: A list of books I enjoyed and that influenced me in various ways when I was younger. Mostly fiction books.
http://www.stephenhicks.org/2018/04/28/books-that-influenced-me-most-1973-1982/
Dear Professor Hicks, What a wonderfully descriptive and informative lecture. Nietzsche’s writings, in so far as I understand them, sound like the rantings of an arrogant narcissist. My take away is that Nietzsche lacks the maturity to seriously engage the complexities, compromises, and exchanges that come with one’s life journey’s through a society. However, Mr. Nietzsche’s writings can be used as starting point for a serious discussion on the role of individual agency. One needs to merely look around to see that people have different capacities to assert their personal agency. Nietzsche’s assertion that the difference is the result of DNA is a reasonable hypothesis. For me, Nietzsche’s oversimplified description of agency lies at the far end of the “individual agency continuum”. Marx’s similarly oversimplified description of non-agency lies at the other end of the continuum. This framework allows for a great ongoing discussion on the role of personal agency in our society. The irony is that despite being on opposite sides of the continuum, both Nietzsche and Marx are, it seems to me, collectivists. And finally, Nietzsche’s explanation of the development of Judea-Christian is quite plausible. Please post more lectures!
Thank you for that thoughtful comment, Brent. More forthcoming.