A New Yorker article explains “Why thinkers of every political persuasion keep finding inspiration in the philosopher.” That’s a long way to come for a philosopher who in his lifetime was dismissed as a non-philosopher by the official philosophers of the day. Biographer Marianne Cowen reports that Nietzsche’s colleagues told their students not to take […]
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My Explaining Postmodernism book is negative on the major developments in German philosophy, tracing a devolution from Kant through Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger to the postmodernists. Lots of room in that story for nuances and exceptions, and I’ve received much criticism for being harsh on the German thinkers. I have two forthcoming Open College
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I am happy to announce that the publishing division of the Museum of the Second World War will be producing a new edition of my Nietzsche and the Nazis in Polish. I thank Dr. Marek Szymaniak for his efforts in making this possible. For information on other translations and editions, please see my Nietzsche and the Nazis page.
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Here is an eleven-minute audio excerpt with subtitles in Spanish — on how Friedrich Nietzsche’s analysis of ressentiment psychology now applies to segments of the postmodern left. The 1998 lecture at a TAS conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder, fed into my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. And here is
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Audio links: iTunes Stitcher YouTube 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.
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The well-prepared Ricardo Lopes from Portugal interviewed me on the charged question of Nietzsche’s relationship to the National Socialists.
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I’m happy to announce that the print Spanish translation is now also available in Kindle e-book version. Nietzsche y los Nazis Traducido al Español por Luis Kofman. Barbarroja Ediciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016. Inglés y otras traducciones.
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Friedrich Nietzsche on why the rise of the philosophers meant the fall of man: Once reason took over, men “no longer possessed their former guides, their regulating, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect, these unfortunate creatures; they were reduced to their ‘consciousness,’ their weakest and most
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Juxtaposing quotations from Michel Foucault (d. 1984) and Friedrich Nietzsche (d. 1900). First, here is Foucault: “All knowledge rests upon injustice; there is no right, not even in the act of knowing, to truth or a foundation for truth; and the instinct for knowledge is malicious (something murderous, opposed to the happiness of mankind).”[1] Friedrich
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A bootleg version of our 2006 Nietzsche and the Nazis documentary is here. I don’t know the bootlegger, but now that the DVD is out of print I’m happy the video is available. The book version of Nietzsche and the Nazis is here.
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