…Because you all remember now, it was just not the end of history, but it was also the last man. Yes. You had Nietzsche and the Last Man. You got the T.S. Eliot, Hollow Man. The emptiness, the vacuity that neoliberal capitalism generates in culture and…

…articles, Dr. Peterson's intellectual roots likewise lie in the 19th and early 20th centuries, where his reading of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and above all, Carl Jung, inform his interpretation of ancient myths of 20th century totalitarianism and especially…

…How about this one? Although it's critical of Hegel, I still like that the second... Gerard Lebrun, not translated into English. The Nietzsche, Hegel, the title. That one is good, but it's basically a Nietzschean. but tell me the two of you here's what i…

…creative and very inventive at that, at creating all sorts of ways of being unhappy. There's a wonderful line on this by Nietzsche. Nietzsche says, man does not seek pleasure, only the Englishman does. I think we can even, given sort of recent political…

…very inventive at that, at creating all sorts of ways of being unhappy. There's a wonderful line on this by Nietzsche. Nietzsche says, man does not seek pleasure, only the Englishman does. I think we can even, given sort of recent political developments,…

…can even sort of doubt this wisdom, this kind of cliched image of the Englishman as kind of hard-headed, pragmatic, and so forth. Nietzsche, of course, is making fun of this kind of, or trying to poke fun at this kind of utilitarian moral psychology. I…

…describe love, that you fall in love with somebody, then you discover the reasons. It's also the model that Nietzsche has for philosophy, that philosophers express a conclusion which is miraculously consistent with their deepest heartfelt beliefs. Mm-mm. And…

…court, democratic court, don't forget this, was totally right. I would say that's another example of what I was talking about with Nietzsche. That's what you like doing, and then you give reasons about why that should be the whole of philosophy. But he…

…But he wasn't doing it enough, because you corrupt the youth and then you end up appropriated by Hitler, you know. Although Nietzsche was a much nicer person. For example, he was always proud about his Polish ancestry. Not exactly a Nazi feature. Another…

…warlike, Jews are merchants. If we bring Germans and Jews together, we would be absolutely unbeatable. That's his dream. Ah, that's the Nietzsche that I like. Well, you are famous for saying that Gandhi was more violent than Hitler, aren't you? But I meant…

…angst, which is genuine, but yet not in any way atheistic. And if that's true, then maybe the atheistic moment is more what Nietzsche thought, which is Saturday after Good Friday. The death itself, not the words on the cross, but the death itself of that…

…so fascinating with so-called deconstructionist postmodernist, how selective they are in their historicizing. Like, for example, Wagner Nietzsche. Wagner, Richard Wagner, is over-historicized, you know. You look at Parsifal, of course, the wound is historically…

…as syphilis. Every statement of Wagner is put in context to prove Wagner, Hitler, and so on. But then we get to Nietzsche, And it's unbelievable how the way postmodernists like Nietzsche, redeem Nietzsche, is by... I mean, we tend to forget that when…

…to prove Wagner, Hitler, and so on. But then we get to Nietzsche, And it's unbelievable how the way postmodernists like Nietzsche, redeem Nietzsche, is by... I mean, we tend to forget that when Nietzsche talked about master-slave, it totally disappeared from…

…Wagner, Hitler, and so on. But then we get to Nietzsche, And it's unbelievable how the way postmodernists like Nietzsche, redeem Nietzsche, is by... I mean, we tend to forget that when Nietzsche talked about master-slave, it totally disappeared from our view…

…on the one hand, of course, he sees this very well, but there is the danger of this post-modern pseudo-Nietzschean bullshit where Nietzsche becomes someone who you know. The real is the event, horror, and then we try to nominate it, but it always fails,…

…you mentioned an interesting thing because nowadays we so much relate on technology and in an abbreviation of the popular quote of Nietzsche, the longer you glare into the abyss, the abyss starts to glare into you. Isn't it like the longer we look into…

…really thought we are at the end, and he was looking for the configurations of this end. Yeah, that's why Fukuyama incorporates Nietzsche, Last Man, all of that, with Kojev. But it's very interesting. Fukuyama was a nice surprise for me. The last thing I…

…yet metaphysics, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, the same Hegel, you know, no longer philosophy but vision, Selbst, Marx, it's clear, whoever you want, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and so on and so on. But today I think we live in a unique moment when we have two ends…

…millions of people would not have died without Albert Speer. Two more left. I'll give you the first one and then the last one. Nietzsche. I'm not so fascinated by Nietzsche. I know it's very fashionable to be for him and so on. I think that even at…

…died without Albert Speer. Two more left. I'll give you the first one and then the last one. Nietzsche. I'm not so fascinated by Nietzsche. I know it's very fashionable to be for him and so on. I think that even at the level of style, did you read…

…on? No. It's something so rhetorically bombastic, pathetic, and so on. And also because in opera, I love Richard Wagner, and Nietzsche turned ferociously against Wagner. So, no, Nietzsche, although I know there are many of my friends who try to do another…

…pathetic, and so on. And also because in opera, I love Richard Wagner, and Nietzsche turned ferociously against Wagner. So, no, Nietzsche, although I know there are many of my friends who try to do another reading of Nietzsche, but I simply don't…

…ferociously against Wagner. So, no, Nietzsche, although I know there are many of my friends who try to do another reading of Nietzsche, but I simply don't relate to Nietzsche. And the last one? Putin. I can see that's the true tragedy of how Yeltsin…

…him, this was not the final step. You know, this is the postmodern vision, which you already find in some sense in Nietzsche. There is radical self-destructive thinking. Nihilism? No, we should stop short of that, gently play with it, but not go all the…

…that it's no longer the closed past but an open past. Hegel was not what he's usually reproached to be a conservative Nietzsche reproached this to Hegel. that Hegel always tells the story from the standpoint of winners, you know, like one victory, another…

…are very precisely focused on a certain topic, and they're rather thin books. The first one on Kantian ethics, the second one on Nietzsche, the third one on comedy, and this instigated or gave a big push to comedy studies and this is a field which is…

…their lives. And again, I was told that the attitude of Korean people involves a profoundly Nietzschean, referring to Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzschean inversion of the standard formula, I will forgive you, but I will never forget it. With regard to Japanese…

…nice, this point of precisely this eschatological notion of the greatest danger, but then reversal. And he traced it from Christianity to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and so on. And I think even Derrida is part, Jacques Derrida is part of this idea that now we…

…is to introduce or assert some positivity of ideas. the will in late Schelling, Schopenhauer, and so on, or even Nietzsche, or, for example, for Marx, the actual positive social process of production, Kierkegaard, the singularity of beliefs, so you have…

…of the lowest, as it were? Let me approach this topic through another. point throughout the tour. Thinkers as different as Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Derrida all conceive their own age as that of the critical turning point of metaphysics. In their or our…

…the main point. If transcendental materialism is not simply an inversion of historical Christian idealism, Platonism for the mob a la Nietzsche, and it certainly is not, what is it? What's really at stake here? Overall, Zizek is saying that this subversive…

…betrayal. In this case, a betrayal of theology for the sake of the singularity that is inexorable divine love. Not as Nietzsche would say, Dionysus versus the crucified, but the jouissance of faith versus the trauma of God's death. That is theological…

…you're talking about the death of God. You can talk about the death of God in any number of ways and you could certainly prioritize Nietzsche and neither of you do it, at least not in terms of the process of argument and not in terms of the order of…

…suggest that radical theology is not external but internal to philosophy, a caesura within the thought of, among others, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Lacan, etc. And in terms of the currency, the currency of the death of God is, I would affirm Carl Schmitt's…

…that it is nothing now is because it's not revolutionary. And so the task would be perhaps a pessimism of the strong, as Nietzsche put it, like a critical, ruthlessly self-critical left. No, no, I simply, not to lose time, I agree with you. The only…

…preparation of philosophy. Fichte, Schelling, in the same way. Hegel, he said it's not philosophy, it's Wissenschaft, it's knowledge. Marx, Nietzsche, no philosopher after Kant wants to be a philosopher, except this new ontology, new materialism now and so on.…

…think, something very Deleuzian. Okay, then, what is so good, so progressive, whatever, about this self-beating in Fight Club? I think that Nietzsche was right when in one of his fragments he wrote, and this is for me the best comment on Fight Club.…

…be slammed. And I would like to urge that we think about and discuss together at some point the trope discovered by Nietzsche, that of ressentiment, a resentment that motors history, according to Nietzsche. So a lot of you are feeling fragile. We have a…

…and discuss together at some point the trope discovered by Nietzsche, that of ressentiment, a resentment that motors history, according to Nietzsche. So a lot of you are feeling fragile. We have a lot of fragility, or what our friend Judith Butler calls…

…so well, just a sugar high or a false high to revert, though we may have needed it, or it might be what Nietzsche would call an enabling fiction, to think that there could be an emancipatory other side or negotiation with something that just went too…

…antagonism is primordial antagonism impossibility and uh It doesn't have a clear real external point. This is the worst of postmodernism. Sometimes Nietzsche writes like this, as if the real is the truth too strong for us. If you look at it directly, you…

…I don't know if you know it, I had a wonderful experience in Sass Fe. She was giving a talk on Wagner and Nietzsche. And her point was to... Her point was to praise Nietzsche for breaking with Wagner, claiming that the authentic lesson of the pupil…

…experience in Sass Fe. She was giving a talk on Wagner and Nietzsche. And her point was to... Her point was to praise Nietzsche for breaking with Wagner, claiming that the authentic lesson of the pupil is to betray his master. You know, the young Wagner,…

…claiming that the authentic lesson of the pupil is to betray his master. You know, the young Wagner, sorry, the young Nietzsche was pupil faithful of Wagner, then he broke with Wagner, no? And then something so wonderful happened. My eternal gratitude goes…

…inadvertently establish firewalls, but I, on the contrary, intend to open essential dossiers and inescapable trajectories. Is this your Nietzsche quote from Nietzsche, or your...? No, I'm honored that you can't tell. It's me. It's Avital Friedrich Ronell. I…

…firewalls, but I, on the contrary, intend to open essential dossiers and inescapable trajectories. Is this your Nietzsche quote from Nietzsche, or your...? No, I'm honored that you can't tell. It's me. It's Avital Friedrich Ronell. I know what you are.…

…stuff from Nora's notebooks and so on, but I always challenge them, you know, go to the end, rehabilitate Elizabeth Forster Nietzsche, you know, who was, we know what, you know. Didn't he give Nietzsche's walking stick to a certain democratically elected…

…Nietzsche's house in Weimar, maybe you were also. No, this is really disgusting from her. You know, in the last years of Nietzsche, when he was practically immobile, mad, she pulled like a kind of, with Elephant Man, horror show. You know, guests, they…

…when he was practically immobile, mad, she pulled like a kind of, with Elephant Man, horror show. You know, guests, they were shown Nietzsche there. She was disgusting, I mean. No, and she propped him up in Goethe's library. And the image that we have of…

…move of you, no? The notion that our truth is really the mask we put on. Yeah, okay, that's another topic, my problems with Nietzsche and so on, you know. But yes, I believe in this, I believe here in alienation. In alienation in the sense of Again,…

…my part, but I will desist, as promised, from taking aggressive stances, even though he started it, and will turn back into the Nietzsche baby that I was brought up to be, losing the ressentiment that could have been stored up all these years in a…

…all of them. But maybe this is too much. I'd like to throw in another name to this question, which would be that of Nietzsche who loved Eve as the first scientist and the first one to go after knowledge against the man and became the model for…

…after knowledge against the man and became the model for Nietzschean inquiry and striving. Beyond good and evil. Yeah, I have problems with Nietzsche, but not in the sense that I think he's bad, but I didn't yet enter Nietzsche. I openly admit it. I have…

…good and evil. Yeah, I have problems with Nietzsche, but not in the sense that I think he's bad, but I didn't yet enter Nietzsche. I openly admit it. I have problems, didn't succeed. But here about Eve, I agree you know where also. When Lacan says that…

…from that pre-modern, you know, yin-yang, feminine-masculine principle, and so on and so on. So yes, but I have other points about Nietzsche. But I wanted to say Descartes also decided to write in French. And when Kant decided to write in German, all…

…is discentered with regard to the big other. What are, again, the theological consequences of this? Postmodern philosophers from Nietzsche onwards, as a rule, prefer Catholicism to Protestantism. The idea is that Catholicism is a culture of external playful…

…didn't foresee is that this reflexivization of art also implies the opposite, that thinking philosophy itself starts to imitate art, with Nietzsche and so on. Philosophy itself becomes an aesthetic of writing and so on and so on. But where was Hegel right…

…SASFE saying that every pupil has to rebel against a master, that you have to betray your master, no? And she dwelled on Nietzsche betraying, moving over Wagner. And then Alain Babu, in a stroke of a genius, asked her a simple question. So, because her…

…out the family of Marx, because with the family of Marx, here were Hegelians, utterly embraced in the Hegelian world, not in Nietzsche, which is very important. They were not salami tacticians, lots of values, but there was just a clear delineation. So now…

…he goes to six main anti-Platonic positions, even Now, okay, now, in the 20th century, first we have the vitalist anti-Platonism, Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze. The idea is that Plato deals with this gray, abstract sterility of ideas. What Plato misses is the…

…way true, yes. The second question was again on violence. You seem to phrase negatively reactive violence in the same way that Nietzsche wasn't too positive about it. But then if the state of affairs is violent itself, It must be reactive violence, mustn't…

…And then he has brought this wonderful ending. He says, so that then we Bolsheviks will be able to say, It's Nietzsche. Sorry? It's Nietzsche. Yeah, it's a problem here because it's absolutely clear that for Nietzsche, this new man would nonetheless, I…

…has brought this wonderful ending. He says, so that then we Bolsheviks will be able to say, It's Nietzsche. Sorry? It's Nietzsche. Yeah, it's a problem here because it's absolutely clear that for Nietzsche, this new man would nonetheless, I think, remain…

…will be able to say, It's Nietzsche. Sorry? It's Nietzsche. Yeah, it's a problem here because it's absolutely clear that for Nietzsche, this new man would nonetheless, I think, remain what Nietzsche calls the last man. At least this would be my, I'm…

…Nietzsche. Yeah, it's a problem here because it's absolutely clear that for Nietzsche, this new man would nonetheless, I think, remain what Nietzsche calls the last man. At least this would be my, I'm not sure. Maybe also Nietzsche. Are you aware how many…

…man would nonetheless, I think, remain what Nietzsche calls the last man. At least this would be my, I'm not sure. Maybe also Nietzsche. Are you aware how many films are already happening? They are no longer a utopia. For example, when I was in New…

…this non-publicist seminar, six main partially intertwined forms of the 20th century anti-Platonism. First we have the vitalist anti-Platonism, Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze. The idea is that one should assert the real of life becoming the flux process of life…

…assert the real of life becoming the flux process of life becoming against the intellectual sterility of Platonic idealism. As Nietzsche already put it, Plato is the name for a disease. Then we have the empiricist analytic anti-Platonism. Plato believed in…

…mentioned about apropos Kant laughter, to get rid of the, let's call it naively, unconscious structure of beliefs which function quite well. Nietzsche saw this very clearly even after we officially become atheists and so on and so on. This is for me the…

Friedrich Nietzsche pointed out the most dangerous person in the world is a philosopher because he comes in and everything which was agreed on is no longer true. He confuses everyone. And tonight we have a founding, founding professor of EGS. He was here…

…formula of stick, did stick to standard formula of atheism, God doesn't exist, no? But then, maybe here it's an influence of Nietzsche, you know? Because Nietzsche was here, I think he was very wise in being aware how this standard of surviving God. You…

…stick to standard formula of atheism, God doesn't exist, no? But then, maybe here it's an influence of Nietzsche, you know? Because Nietzsche was here, I think he was very wise in being aware how this standard of surviving God. You know this humanist…

…have a God who doesn't exist but who still screws your life totally. He is still here as this inexistent ideal order, no? And Nietzsche was well aware that in this sense it's not enough to make come there, but God as an ideal order is still here.…

…So what I'm claiming things really are, and then, you know, this would be more like some kind of a pseudo. Some people read Nietzsche in this way strongly, Nietzschean way that the real out there is the brutal reality, too raw for us to perceive it, so…

…It survives different contexts and here Wackler I think won triumphantly. That is to say It all started already with Nietzsche, Wagner's great critic, who was the first, I think, to perform such a decontextualization, which works formidably precisely with…

…who was the first, I think, to perform such a decontextualization, which works formidably precisely with Ring. Namely, for Nietzsche, Wagner was no longer, even when he criticizes Wagner, the poet of teutonic mythology, of bombastic heroic grandeur, but…

…I think that, just a concluding thought now, I think that usually Wagner's passage from Ring to Parsifal is read the way Nietzsche of God that Wagner was close to Christianity, not of course to any Christianity as an institution, but to this basic idea…

…and so on, but nonetheless thoroughly ethical, faithful to her chosen path to the end, even if this means certain death. Nietzsche, a great admirer of Carmen, was the philosopher of immoral ethics. And we should always remember that the title of Nietzsche's…

…trib, drive, basically just another version of the post-Hegelian will, first developed by Leith Schelling and Schopenhauer and then in Nietzsche. Is, however, the Freudian drive really another name for will, for the will? A reference to the history of music…

…so mad, although now I'm friendly with her. Avital Ronel gave a talk. Maybe some of you are was that the greatness of Nietzsche was to find the strength to betray Wagner, his master teacher. And then she went into all this poetry of how the creative…

…short break. Yeah, no, no, no, I see. Look, here you got me because, as you know, first I shared Lacan's big distrust of Nietzsche. Because it's saying too much. You say exactly the same if you just say beyond the good and so on. So it's more this…

…propaganda for my friend, part of my Slovene gang, Alenka Zapančić. She did that book, The Shortest Shadow, me to Nietzsche. Although I'm very interested in this problem, Nietzsche and Wagner, because it's much more ambiguous. Nietzsche really didn't get rid…

…Slovene gang, Alenka Zapančić. She did that book, The Shortest Shadow, me to Nietzsche. Although I'm very interested in this problem, Nietzsche and Wagner, because it's much more ambiguous. Nietzsche really didn't get rid of Wagner up to the end. You know…

…Shortest Shadow, me to Nietzsche. Although I'm very interested in this problem, Nietzsche and Wagner, because it's much more ambiguous. Nietzsche really didn't get rid of Wagner up to the end. You know that when Nietzsche Nietzsche contra Wagner, where he…

…and Wagner, because it's much more ambiguous. Nietzsche really didn't get rid of Wagner up to the end. You know that when Nietzsche Nietzsche contra Wagner, where he tried to prove that he was always against Wagner and so on, so obviously this was a…

…cannot be concluded in that form. After that, but before he found his late formula, as it were, somewhere in 1938 with his Nietzsche book. Even his book on from Ereignis on a gnomon is much more ambiguous. For example, Heidegger there still uses a term…

…term, transvaluation? You know, I wouldn't, my feelings are, to put it in this very stupid terms, are very mixed about Nietzsche, although a colleague of mine, one of my inner party circle, Alenka Zupamcic, published that wonderful book, The Shortest Shadow,…

…But she did convert me, but not quite, how should I put it, no? But where I like her work is, if I rather connect Nietzsche to this final point about appearance and so on, you know where is the problem? She points to how Nietzsche, I think, didn't go…

…if I rather connect Nietzsche to this final point about appearance and so on, you know where is the problem? She points to how Nietzsche, I think, didn't go to the end here. She quotes, I think, from Genealogie des Morales of how in the... In the space…

…the end here. She quotes, I think, from Genealogie des Morales of how in the... In the space of a couple of pages, Nietzsche proposes two opposite approaches. ethics and ontologist. At some point he has this heroic notion of how much truth we can endure.…

…save reason through the exception. This was Chester's basic insight, that the irrationalism of the late 19th century, Nietzsche, Levin's philosophy, and so on, was the necessary consequence of the Enlightenment rationalist attack on religion. Another problematic…

…struggles. You know, the story of... All attempts to break out of metaphysics, from Kierkegaard to Marx, from Nietzsche to Heidegger, from Levinas to Claude Lévi-Strauss, ultimately remain within the horizon of the metaphysics of presence. This…

…presence. This same gesture is clearly discernible also in Heidegger, for whom all reversals of metaphysics, from Marx to Nietzsche, from Husserl to Sartre, remain within the horizon of the forgetting of being, ultimately caught in the technological nihilism,…

…go a step further and reject a certain anthropology, which we find not only in... almost entire modern philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, but even Lacan, at least the early Lacan, this idea that man is a sick nature, derailed nature. Nature is…

…and so on. I think that one has to read it in a very, you know, often we intellectuals make a mistake, especially with Nietzsche, people make this mistake, to put too much irony, joke into it. I think the key is to read Nietzsche as a totally, in…

…to insult you, but what is it that we should do today to contrast or oppose the Bush ideology so far as, you know, Nietzsche says in his third essay on genealogy that they have one goal, one plan. Where's our one goal? Where's our one plan? How do…

…of moral sensitivity, bad conscience, guilt feeling as it internalized resistance to the heroic assertion of life. However, for Nietzsche, such moral sensitivity culminates precisely in the contemporary last man, search for happiness without stress, and who for…

…terms, it is the passage from master's ethics to slave morality. And this, perhaps, enables us a new approach to Nietzsche. When Nietzsche scornfully dismisses slave morality, I think that Nietzsche can be redeemed here, that he is not truly attacking…

…is the passage from master's ethics to slave morality. And this, perhaps, enables us a new approach to Nietzsche. When Nietzsche scornfully dismisses slave morality, I think that Nietzsche can be redeemed here, that he is not truly attacking so-called lower…

…morality. And this, perhaps, enables us a new approach to Nietzsche. When Nietzsche scornfully dismisses slave morality, I think that Nietzsche can be redeemed here, that he is not truly attacking so-called lower classes as such, but rather the new masters…

…such, but rather the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the master. I think if you read closely Nietzsche, slave is not... The true slave. Slave is this fake new master who doesn't even want to be master. Who is not ready to…

…and so on and so on. So let me go on. So I think that... This is the paradox of what, following Nietzsche, we could designate as today's hedonistic, you know Nietzsche's term, last man. Everything is permitted, you can enjoy everything, but it has…