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Allan Bloom on Nietzsche 1983 (3 of 5)

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Uploaded by on Dec 13, 2008

Allan Bloom on Nietzsche 1983 (3 of 5)

A rare, informal lecture by Allan Bloom to a group of professors at Boston College on how to teach Nietzsche. Delivered in 1983, four years before The Closing of the American Mind was to be published, the lecture foreshadows some of the themes that were to become his hallmarks.

Other such lectures are available here:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=allan%20bloom

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  • Bloom was not "conservative" in any Burkean sense. He was culturally more of an FDR liberal - middle-class Jewish parents, etc. He was also over-the-top gay, which is irrelevant. But he was conservative in the sense of opposing cultural Marxism, and the people he genuinely influenced went on to become conservatives or neo-cons. But Bloom was a philosopher, not a strictly political thinker. His concern was the university and the state of the students not marginal tax rates or foreign policy.

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  • Nietzsche in four words: "Become your own god".

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  • @onehappiness agreed

  • @spruntfemalespray and it's you're dumb dumb

  • @spruntfemalespray I agree. but read Ravelstein and tell me he wasn't a super smart, creepy guy.

  • @MarcusCMarcellus

    Absolutely right. 

  • @onehappiness I was waiting for something with substance too, but I already knew all of this.....

  • Bloom was the arch-mental masturbator. Windy as desert flats in spring and empty as an abandoned hanger. He sound like what I imagine a predatory Priest sounds like to a child. You know, almost no-body outside of academia knows who this man is? He tried to say so much he said nearly nothing. Scholars are sensitive and have fragile ego's; as a result no-one in this room was willing to admit they'd gotten approximately nothing from this lecture and demand this pervert to get to the goddamn point!

  • @greatsea what are you talking about?

  • not because they are catholic so much as because they are Irish

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