[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] will tell that to someone who is in a boat risking their nest trying to get from libya to lampedusa. That is a make me want to read him again, have to tell you. To me that is just playing with words. So, i think unless unless someone has an absolutely depressing thing, thank you for your attention. [applause]. [inaudible] thank you for coming out. Book tv is on instagram, follow us for publishing news, schedule updates and behind the scene pictures and videos. Instagram. Com book underscore tv. University of wisconsin professor jennifer, it is good to meet you. He was a german philosopher who wrote many books on philosophy and all sorts of different forms. All of them, some essay, some longer forms, critiques, all of them had something to do with the challenge of universal truth. He took his enemy and the notion of universal truth and all of his work has something to do with his
That was after words, booktvs Signature Program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed. Watch past after words programs online at booktv. Org. Host university of wisconsin professor jennifer ratnerrosenhagen, who was Frederick Nietzsche . Guest he was a 19th century german philosopher who wrote many, many, many, many books on philosophy and all sorts of different forms. And all of them some after riskic, some essayistic, some longer formally teaks, and all of them critiques, and all of them had something to do with the challenge of universal truth. So he took as his enemy the notion of universal truth, and pretty much all of his work has something to do with his effort to tear it down, excavate it, look at the history of that idea and to show that anything that we take to be universals like, oh, god [laughter] are human creations. But theyre not rooted in nature or necessity, theyre not mirrors of reality. Host he wrote at one time god is dead guest and he wrot
In Mississippi Black lives did not matter. I am senator david jordan from greenwood who attended the emmett till trial and have written from a cotton field to the state senate and include one chapter in my book which has been not the bestseller but a very good seller. But its for sale, too, in the bookstore so you all should go buy one of his books affect. Yes. So i attended the trial but the experience that i had there on the outside forward where the news media were where my first time meeting and africanamerican congressman named davis was with mrs. Teal and i was just a freshman that Mississippi College state, college at that time. And we were asked to give a report. Sargasso 25 cents a gallon. We headed for summer mississippi but when we arrived there worth staying around on the outside for a few minutes a beautiful lady walked up to his welldressed and reporter said were going to ask you some questions. Whether emmett till will get a fair trial in mississippi. And she said, well,
The first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable theyve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. Theres no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. Although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. But it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself plancks quantum theory, einsteins theory of relativity, freuds work on psychoanalysis. It was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the tragedies of modern western history. Freud wrote and publis
Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project the first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable theyve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. Theres no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. Although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. But it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself plancks quantum theory, einsteins theory of relativity, freuds work on psychoanalysis. It was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the trage