Allan Bloom on Nietzsche 1983 (1 of 5)

Allan Bloom on Nietzsche 1983 (1 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

[JonWRowe]

I'd like to see some live video of Bloom uploaded.

[MarcusCMarcellus]

So would I. Such videos exist at my esteemed alma mater, Chicago, but the hacks sitting on the archives have not released them. I know there's a video of the infamous "Western Civ" lecture at Harvard but they claim to have lost it.

[leiyang89]

Very interesting! on another note, am I the only one finding his voice (at least here) VERY similar to ledger's joker?

[MrAllanBloom]

In the age of Bush and Obama perhaps the most essential discussion in these lectures is that on the Last Man. One must really read this section from Zarathustra to experience its full relevance and for it to have its proper impact. The Last Man is us. We no longer need to say "give us the Last Man!". We are the society of Last Men - oops, I'm sorry! - I meant to say, "Last Persons".

[1theforest]

Tha, tha, tha, thats right!!

[jessyjessy4]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[gmayer66]

This is Allan Bloom?? There was barely a coherent sentence in the whole recording! He is jumping from one thought to the next, not completing most of his sentences, ungrammatically ramming them into the following sentences.

[ieatwiteoutforfun]

I love Boston College

[Division1985]

I didn't know much about Nietzsche until I read books Robert Greene book (he quoted Nietzsche quite a few times). I read Bloom's Closing of the American Mind last year. So that being said...Thanks for the reference, fellas.

[TheDavid2222]

Damn I like you! LOL I very rarely converse with like minded people on Youtube.

[TheDavid2222]

@tommybrown187 you could also argue that ignorance is only a cause of suffering like the Buddhists do.

[TheDavid2222]

@bxjam85 to change their minds. Even if they understand a person of faith usually clings to juxtaposing ideas in order to secure their own emotional well being. I have found this to be true. I get very close to pitying them for their self imposed ignorance. 

[TheDavid2222]

I've tried explaining Nietzsche philosophy to a Christian and I found it to be impossible. It's a frustrating experience. Anybody else ever run into that situation?