Bbc friedrich nietzsche biography

Genius of the Modern World - Episode 2 - Friedrich Nietzche (BBC Documentary, 2016) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August.
Cartoonist Ralph Steadman and translator Adam Czerniawski discuss the life of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
A BBC documentary with commentary from Nietzsche scholars Profound Insights: Best Quotes of Friedrich Nietzsche | By World Biography.

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Nietzsche

More Detailed than Your Usual American Documentary

Most documentaries I see today are simply the same information as in the other documentaries on the same subject but in a different order and with progressively more sophisticated CGI effects. I doubt most of them do any research beyond watching previous television shows on the subject. But, Bettany Hughes is different.

She keeps the subject entertaining without sacrificing content. She may not talk about every book Nietzsche ever produced but she also doesn't make an entire show about Thus Spake Zarathustra, either. Bettany discusses the philosopher, his family, his works and how his works were received at the time; and, she concludes with how the world reacted to Nietzsche's works after his death. And, when you finish watching, you feel as if you've learned something.

There are three in this series, the other two being Marx and Freud. What I've noticed is that Ms. Hughes critiques these great minds and their ideas alternate with discussing their brilliance and the great impact they had. Were

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Genius of the Modern World: Nietzsche (BBC Four)

2016, Genius of the Modern World

(Abstract from BBC 4 website) "The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science. His was a world not just bereft of God but almost of humanity, breathtaking in both its post-religious starkness and its originality. Bettany Hughes goes in search of the beliefs of a man whose work is amongst the most devastatingly manipulated and misinterpreted in philosophical history. Nietzsche's dislike of systems and of seeking truths left his ideas ambiguous and sometimes incoherent. It was this that made him vulnerable to interpretation, and as a result his thoughts - which warned against the very notion of a political system like totalitarianism - were manipulated to strengthen its ideals. Vocally opposed to anti-Semitism, his anti-Semitic sister made sure he became the poster boy for Hitler's drive for an Ar

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The tiny Swiss town that inspired Nietzsche

Eric Weiner

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The philosopher spent seven summers in this 750-person Alpine village, and it was here that he birthed his most famous – and controversial – ideas.

Groundhog Day is my favourite movie. By a mile. I must have watched it dozens of times. Groundhog Day is my favourite movie. By a mile. I must have watched it dozens of times. Groundhog Day is my favourite movie. By a…

I haven’t merely watched the movie, I’ve communed with it, imbibed its ethos. I loved it when it first came out in 1993. I loved it before it became a cultural meme, before people used the word “meme” in conversation. I still love it. More than ever.

Nietzsche is the bad boy of Western philosophy. The delinquent too smart and prescient to ignore.

The protagonist is a curmudgeonly TV weatherman named Phil Connors. He is in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festival. Again. Phil isn’t happy with this assignment and takes every opportunity to share his unhappiness with his