Peter Watson briefly argues Nietzsche’s case during the 2005 Great Philosophers poll on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time programme (here). The big man received only 6.5% of the votes. The overall winner with 27.9%, more than twice the share of the second-placed cogitator (Hume), was, you may remember, Karl Marx. I guess the result shows [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Nietzsche on Radio 4’s Great Philosophers
Posted in News & media on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nietzsche and education
Posted in Publications on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Out earlier this year: Peter Fitzsimons, Nietzsche, Ethics and Education (Sense Publishers).
I am the walrus
Posted in Quotations on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
[image: Nietzsche's Moustache (2003) by Not Vital]
. . . the gentlest and most reasonable of men can, if he wears a large moustache, sit as it were in its shade and feel safe there – he will ususally be seen as no more than the appurtenance of a large moustache, that is to say a [...]
Nietzsche and Turin
Posted in News & media on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NPR (National Public Radio) in the US broadcast the programme “Nietzsche’s love affair with Turin” on 11 February, 2006. Listen to it here.
Recent paperback releases
Posted in Publications on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The following Nietzsche-related titles appeared in paperback in June/July.
Will Dudley, Hegel, Nietzsche and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom (CUP).
Katrin Frose, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Daoist Thought (SUNY Press).
Nikos Kazantzakis, Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State (SUNY Press).
Rogerio Miranda de Almedia, Nietzsche and Paradox (SUNY Press).
Matthew Rampley, Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity (CUP).
Robin Small, Nietzsche and Rée: [...]
Papal preacher has pop at Nietzsche
Posted in News & media on August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Apparently the Pope was warned earlier this year about the pernicious influence of Nietzschean ‘paganism’ on the modern world. So that explains everything! From Catholic World News:
Vatican, Mar. 16, 2007 (CWNews.com) – Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher to the pontifical household, contrasted the Christian outlook with the thought of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, in the second his [...]
Nietzsche, Poles and polls
Posted in From the Vaults, News & media on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Always with its finger on the pulse of world events, The Mole brings you news of this bizarre episode in Polish politics, as reported in Time magazine on 24 November 1930. Has anyone ever heard of this incident?
During the campaign which ended in Poland’s general election last week, opposition papers were so mercilessly censored that some were [...]
Nietzsche and Machiavelli
Posted in Publications on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This came out in paperback in April: Diego A. von Vacano, The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory (Lexington Books).
Without music life would be a mistake
Posted in Miscellaneous on August 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
‘Nowadays, we’re more into staying in our rooms and reading Nietzsche,’ Jimmy Page once said of the supposedly reformed tour behaviour of his Led Zeppelin band mates and erstwhile votaries of Dionysus. As far as I’m aware, Robert Plant’s quite possibly apocryphal study of nineteenth-century German philosophy did not leave a lasting impression on the [...]
Songs from Nietzsche! The Musical
Posted in Humour on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Self-explanatory, really. Here.
