tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post982431694156562648..comments2023-11-30T06:32:59.453-06:00Comments on Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog: Clarence Darrow on NietzscheBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-43650021883372475722010-02-09T22:55:41.906-06:002010-02-09T22:55:41.906-06:00Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (1948)is ...Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (1948)is another movie related to that case. There is also an answer at the end which may be indirectly applied to the case. (I won't tell it so that you can watch and enjoy the movie. And another movie is Tom Kalin's "Swoon"(1990), which I haven't seen. <br /><br />On the other hand, "ubermench" is only a very tiny and SirJohnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-55358599018970923472010-01-08T19:04:31.351-06:002010-01-08T19:04:31.351-06:00The Turin Horse, Béla Tarr's reportedly final ...<a href="http://www.wercwerkworks.com/Turin_Horse_Film.pdf" rel="nofollow">The Turin Horse</a>, Béla Tarr's <a href="http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=87231" rel="nofollow">reportedly</a> final film.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-84897971440712084932010-01-08T10:43:41.624-06:002010-01-08T10:43:41.624-06:00Thanks, Richard: looking forward to seeing the fil...Thanks, Richard: looking forward to seeing the film... <br /><br />By the way, as part of Julian Young's forthcoming biography, <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521871174&resISBN13=9780521871174&parent=8203&ss=res#resource" rel="nofollow">17 downloadable musical compositions</a> by Nietzsche are now available for free.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-66989914269189407802010-01-07T10:35:35.050-06:002010-01-07T10:35:35.050-06:00A Nietzschean would seriously contemplate and refl...A Nietzschean would seriously contemplate and reflect on the dangerous ideas Nietzsche puts forward for our time and future times to consider. Zarathustra was not hoping to be aped. To take Nietzsche dogmatically also seems like a paradoxical position. It also seems difficult to support that the herd is ever a part of his intended audience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-49469400829941758062010-01-07T02:43:02.911-06:002010-01-07T02:43:02.911-06:00To Rob,
The movie is incredible. The Nietzsche s...To Rob, <br /><br />The movie is incredible. The Nietzsche stuff is just icing, as far as enjoying the movie is concerned.<br /><br />But it is interesting and kind of exciting to see her character take these exhortations to heart so readily. I read and reread Nietzsche's works, but would never dream of modeling my behavior on what I've read in them...or at least not in such a knee-jerk Richardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-64728873361460720042010-01-06T00:32:50.118-06:002010-01-06T00:32:50.118-06:00The Overman (no confusion with Clark Kent that way...The Overman (no confusion with Clark Kent that way) was Nietzsche's attempt to recreate God, so that a new set of values would have a reference point. He knew that a radical and attention-grabbing story was necessary to get the herd to listen, and like with the Bible, there will be those who take it too literally.<br /><br />Just my reading, anyway.SenorDingDonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07105548708120044564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-48421068574639411362010-01-04T21:39:08.840-06:002010-01-04T21:39:08.840-06:00Hilarious. More details here.Hilarious. More details <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/movies/09kehr.html?pagewanted=print&position=" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-77300121136632259312010-01-04T14:37:49.398-06:002010-01-04T14:37:49.398-06:00The German cobbler in Babyface (the Barbara Stanwy...The German cobbler in Babyface (the Barbara Stanwyck movie) has a similar take.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sJ7NcpCR8<br /><br />From what I understand, the censors forced them to cut all the Nietzsche references, but the uncensored version was unearthed in 2004. The DVD I have contains both versions.<br /><br />Later on, the cobbler sends her a copy of "Thoughts Out of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-25379220584456793432010-01-03T15:27:58.595-06:002010-01-03T15:27:58.595-06:00I wonder if Darrow is not doubly indebted to Nietz...I wonder if Darrow is not doubly indebted to Nietzsche as both an extenuating factor <i>and</i> as the inspiration behind the grand pathos of that responsibility-dispersing vision of cosmic interconnectedness concluding the passage you quote (cf. HH 34, 39, 106, 107; AOM 33; WS 23, 24).<br /><br />By the way, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105508/" rel="nofollow">a good film</a> about Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.com