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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
Host what about the sorrow . Guest i have written 38 books and spent 16 years at the university and people remind me you have done some things. Won all kinds of awards. Done three, an hourlong documentaries for public television. I have done a few things which helped to get past the feeling of worthlessness but not really. Not really. At 81 years old, where you doing television stuff . As you know it takes 20 or 30 hours to do an hourlong documentary. My smart answer is trying to figure out how to do it an edge the real answer there is this worthlessness, a compulsion to keep doing this. Host you talk about the tractor. Are you able to drive today . Guest i still run a farm. Theyre on my tractor. It has power steering. Host what is your role at the university of wisconsin . Guest professor of agricultural education. Prior to that i was a county Extension Agent in brown county and moved to madison in 1962 to the publication editor, goes back to my newspaper work and all that stuff. And
After that we will open up for q a. You will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. If you wish to join q a, get up and stand behind the microphone. We have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording cspan and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without further ado, ill begin my brief introduction. So heres the book. There we go. For those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. Peter tends to write short books. You think to yourself, this is serious. Im not going to get into the details. Im going to see general things about the book at the first one is this book marks Peter Andreas thugs at because its wellwritten and is actually enjoyable. Its quite readable and clear and utterly devoid of jargon and it contains a powerful political message. The second reason to like this book is that it is not devoid of theoretical hats, pretension. Tijuana sociolog