[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
University of wisconsin professor jennifer rattner rosen hagen. Who is it nitch ski. Guest a philosopher who wrote in different forms and all of. The. Somees stayistic, some longer form critiques, and all of them had something to do with the challenge of the universal truth. He took as his enemy the notion of universal truth, and pretty much all of this work has something to do with his effort to pare it down can look at the history of that idea and show anything that we take to be universals, like, oh, god, are human creations, but theyre not rooted in nature or necessity, not mirrors of reality. Host he wrote at one time, god is dead. Guest he wrote that god is dead. And this first makes its appears in his gay science, and in it the gay science its an called the mad man, and hes playing with this idea that a mad man runs into the town square and says, god is dead, god is dead. We have killed him, you and i, and everybody says, he is crazy are and realizes my time has not come yet. An
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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