Walter Kaufmann: Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy

"Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy", the second part of Walter Kaufmann's 1960 lecture series. Kaufmann first discusses the general crisis in modern philosophy, before focusing on the important contributions of Friedrich Nietzsche. Kaufmann pictures Nietzsche as a revolutionary heretic and the embodiment of the Socratic spirit. He traces in Nietzsche's works the craving for intellectual integrity, his break with Richard Wagner over the composer's anti-Semitic and anti-French sentiments, and ultimately, his madness, ascribed to having "burned himself out."

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[marcos20alves]

awful audio, mate

[Veto2090]

i can't understand him

[MrMarktrumble]

thank you very much

[GnosticAgnostic]

@pingguo2

No that's right. I go to the university of Minnesota and we have far more than a mere dozen philosophers in the Twin Cities. But Kaufmann is dead on about how philosophy has become exceedingly academic and... dry. None of these so-called philosophers really stands out. They can all explain the ideas of real thinkers, but none of them are really dynamite like Nietzsche, Sartre or Wittgenstein.

[pingguo2]

At 15:48, does Kaufmann say "some of them have over a dozen philosophers" or did I hear it incorrectly?

[Phavonic]

Kaufmann's books are very underrated. He has a good way of defining philosophy in one whole cultural picture, which you can see in his books which double as photography and philosophy.

"What is Man?" is one such defining work. I don't think any book before it summed up that question in such a prosaic and even romantic way.

[LittleSn00py]

Will there be a third part?

[samreznek]

Thanks for putting this up!