Allan Bloom on Nietzsche 1983 (5 of 5)

Allan Bloom on Nietzsche 1983 (5 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

Category:

Education

Tags:

• nietzsche
• bloom
• philosophy
• nihilism
• strauss
• chicago

[TheThemilfhunter]

nietzsche is a pussy. he ran out of ideas so he blamed it on humanity

[MarcusCMarcellus]

@TheThemilfhunter I rarely reply to comments on my videos but I have to say I like yours. Yes, Nietzsche is terribly overrated.

[liamdhardy]

What happened to the end?

[spacecricket]

allan died

[jamesflaim]

@jamesflaim and is will to power really another word for "chaos"? Seems pretty directed to me.

[jamesflaim]

Nietzsche was obviously a terrible prescriptive philosopher but he was a pretty good critic

[Califacience]

@Onieracraft

Yeah, Heidegger did get alot from Nietzsche. What tends to throw people off in reading Nietzsche and appreciating his ideas is the unsystematic and unconventional manner of his style.

[Onieracraft]

@MarcusCMarcellus

a great deal of modern Philosophy piggybacks off of Nietzsche. Heidegger's, Foucault's and countless other Philosopher's appraisal of the the traditional western concept of Reason as an instrument of the human Will to Power is taken straight from Nietzsche. In many cases it was the most interesting thing about what they wrote.

[BerserkExodus1]

Overrated, a pussy, and yet his thoughts, along with those philosophers of the Western Tradition, pervade every aspect of the psychological governance of the minds of man. He posed mankind with a question. He pointed out where we were headed and now we are there at his "Last Man". The only solution can be his revaluation of all values. He puts the responsibility on us, as it always should be. He was a revolutionary. He was Humanist in the sense that a person's choices are the determinant.

[Aphoresis]

@MarcusCMarcellus

Give me some Philosophers you think are NOT overrated?

[handelweek]

... and it cuts off in mid-sentence. Alas, how I wish we could have the rest of it.

[kronoscorvinus]

Well, noble Marcellus to introduce Proffessor Blooms's "over the top"-your words HOMOSEXUALITY and then to say, well, that shouldn't have any any influence on his opinions, cause we are all "Lib-ar-el here....then why mention it AT ALL!