Rick Roderick on Nietzsche as Artist [full length]

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Rick Roderick on Nietzsche as Artist [full length]

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This video is 7th in the 8-part series, Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991).
Lecture notes:
I. Nietzsche in comparison to other great thinkers
A. Nietzsche has been praised as a forerunner of Psychoanalysis
B. For Kierkegaard, the search for an authentic self is doomed to fail.
1. He says that the self is a despairing relation.
2. Nietzsche puts a positive twist on this view saying that the self is a "risky" relation to itself.
II. An uninterpretable text of Nietzsche's is "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
A. This contains a parody of the Bible. There is a "sermon on the mount" given for cows.
B. The text is meant to enact the gay science.
C. It is self-indulgent and especially appealing to adolescents, as is much of Nietzsche's work.
D. You are meant to have a good time with the text and to be challenged by it to try to remember your adolescence.
E. Mass media has eliminated the necessity for religion.
F. Intoxication has always been an important aspect of culture.
G. Nihilism is not a strong enough name for the threat faced by human subjectivity and lived experience in the terrain of our culture.
III. War is the last indication of reality, but now even that may not be true.
A. The gulf war can be considered a virtual non-reality.
B. Our culture has as excess of the visual.
For more information, see www.rickroderic...
A philosophy podcast, The Partially Examined Life, held a detailed discussion of Nietzsche, which can be found here:
www.partiallyex...

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@gabrielajonczyk5663 3 жыл бұрын

"You are in deep, deep... doodoo" This is the best summary of my life.

@nlothervoicessc4286 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely read some Kafka

@gabrielajonczyk5663 2 жыл бұрын

@@nlothervoicessc4286 I Polish, there was Gombrowicz...

@proseminded 6 жыл бұрын

Rick, I was 4 years old when you did this lecture. It's 2018 and I hear your message loud & clear. Thanks for seeding the infinite spiral of information with true insights worthy of contemplation. You're a rock star in this dystopian landscape!

@bryanutility9609 11 ай бұрын

How’s the dystopia working out for you now?

@joshrivers5191 11 ай бұрын

A relic from before the great hyper real pandemic. It's getting weirder every day.

@ttacking_you Ай бұрын

@@bryanutility9609I don't know? It feels apt to me? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

@succytash 7 жыл бұрын

Rick, you did succeed-- here it is, being viewed just after the greatest post modern spectacle to date, the 2016 US presidential election.

@hootiegabriel9200 4 жыл бұрын

succytash whatcha think about 2020?

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

Joan Tron yeah.. 2020. Rick’s nightmare fully realized

@nightoftheworld 3 жыл бұрын

JJ KK your volunteerism for the gulag is noted

@dinoskendrovic20 3 жыл бұрын

@JJ KK damn its almost psychedelic to see a genuine Trump supporter on Rick Roderick video. Just a true post-modern insanity.

@Arandomfigure 3 жыл бұрын

@JJ KK Buddy how did that shake out?

@reneangulotrujillo1 9 жыл бұрын

"What is good is light, what is divine moves on tender feet!" -1st principle of my aesthetics, -Nietzsche

@Sergo1389 2 жыл бұрын

This is a brilliant lecture, especially watching it in 2022 - third year of pandemic with Boris Johnson, Novak Djokovic, Kazakhstan, Pope and Metaverse!

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

40:45 *postmodern dissatisfaction* “Perhaps some of that dissatisfaction is rooted in the desire to feel an experience again-to live a real experience again. Something that _really_ occurred, that wasn’t already packaged, explained, prepackaged, agreed upon then given to you as your opinion without a possibility of doing anything but assenting. And you may go, _’Oh no, they give us choice!._ Well we all know what the array is and how infinite it is. It’s like choosing green beans at the grocery store. How many kinds do they have? Say you want canned green beans. I’m a throw back, I like canned green beans I don’t like the ones that you put in the little plastic pouches, I want the canned ones-and I get a _choice._ There are like twenty kinds, I’ve tried a lot of them. I open them and they’re all just really bad green beans-they’re green and they’re beans and they’re this long and they’ve got the same amount of water. And I’ve chosen and that’s true I’ve chosen and _I want that freedom to choose and I’d fight and die for that freedom to choose the green bean of my choice!_ But what I don’t have is the choice to select that autonomous radical project that Nietzsche put at the center of his writing and at the center of his attempt at self-creation-that’s the choice I don’t have. I feel sometimes as though I’m plugged into a giant computer that will take every command I give it except the one that I want the most-the command that the damn machine blow itself up.”

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

0:29 *Art as project of self-creation* “When I say Nietzsche as artist I have in mind this strong project of self-creation which is to make of one’s own life a work of art. Very difficult thing to sculpt oneself, it’s much easier to sculpt in stone than to sculpt in that _invisible, mysterious_ material of the self.”

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

5:37 Jordan Peterson’s 12-steps of doo doo

@willowbell3756 3 жыл бұрын

I pressed the like button as Rick was talking about the McLaughlin Group (that I had to look up first) and started laughing. I just say oh brave new world and have done since the 1990s. I'm 71 and just listened to an audio version of Zarathustra, it's mesmerising and funny. Of course there's no interpretation of the parables so I'm glad I listened to this lecture to clarify why the men he encounters constitute higher men. In other words I didn't understand it. I think Baudrillard was right to an extent but it was the 6 weeks of bombing and the subsequent sanctioning and the imposing of Western business, throughout the 1990s, rather than the events of 2003, that finished Iraq. They sent B52s from the Fairford Airbase in Britain that is leased to the American airforce. We went to protest there as we have done against a lot of wars and the kerosene emitted on take off was lethal. By 2003 they had new planes and we had a camp that they policed with forces from all over the UK. Once someone was flying a Palestinian flag and the police came, took it but thought it was the Iraqi Barth Party and national flag. I talk about Iraq cos I believe to this day people in America know nothing about it.

@triforceofwisdom6249 5 жыл бұрын

12 step plans... wait? Peterson?!

@zeitgeist2point087 4 жыл бұрын

triforce of wisdom Exactly what I was thinking

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

Amen! Had the exact same thought

@reneangulotrujillo1 9 жыл бұрын

"Without the Arts the world would be a mistake!" -Nietzsche

@tristanhurley9071 6 жыл бұрын

Rene Trujillo without Music

@mexicansmell 4 жыл бұрын

Isn't he talking about music specifically

@hazelwray5307 3 жыл бұрын

Nietzsche, via Arthur Schopenhauer.

@Alex-xp9lu 4 жыл бұрын

The middle section aroun 27:00 where he talks about the prospects of a mini-series Zarathustra allowing for swaths of viewers to walk around dressed like Zarathustra reminds of the effects of V For Vendetta when the film came out in 2005, and now the Joker in 2019. Incredible accuracy in all aspects of these points, but this one I feel illustrates so clearly the affective nature of the hyperpaced, technological interregnum we are in now.

@VM-hl8ms 3 жыл бұрын

has anonymous proven to be what many young people wanted it to be over more than 15 years? did the last joker left deeper imprint into popular culture than most jokers before? is this technological interregnum real, or is it something that is emerging from collective denial?

@jyothsna231 3 жыл бұрын

Dear Rick, you did enter this spiral of information... you are alive... and teaching us enlightening us and planting the life seeds of rebellion in our hearts.... one day there will be fire... a true real fire... a fire that burns, purifies and creates a huge immaculate space for new creation... creation of a new man

@romanticplacebo3693 2 жыл бұрын

"𝑰𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒎𝒖𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒎𝒖𝒓 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊. We turn in a circle of the night and we are consumed by the fire" -Guy Debord, 1978

@redtaperecorder1 6 жыл бұрын

The mass culture's current obsession w/ Jordan Peterson and his '12 Rules for Life' got me to thinking about this lecture again...

@davidnagy7478 6 жыл бұрын

Tim Dukes - Yes, he represents some strange spectacle himself, some sort of quasi-intellectual self help opportunism mixed with step-dad moralizing. He’s the living embodiment of Diet Coke breath. His abject perversion of Nietzsche’s philosophy is what angers me the most about him, though. And no matter how much I explain to his limp minded acolytes how objectively wrong his interpretations of Nietzsche are, they simply won’t listen, bc as long as Peterson’s vapid generalizations about the world reaffirms their self perceived victimhood and prejudices they couldn’t care less.

@theeedave3372 6 жыл бұрын

David Nagy his blind followers.... that scares me. How easily people can be swayed

@ThinkingAboutChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Naturally, as every human being, Professor Peterson has his flaws. I've been listening to 100 and more hours of his content and I've landed on this video because I'm trying to see through the mist of Postmodernism, beyond JBP's interpretation of it. That said, JBP's philosophy is not even remotely comparable to those self-help books Professor Roderick is talking about. JBP has gone deep into the archetypical structure of the subjective perception of reality and clarified the interconnections between many spiritual doctrines. He has accomplished in a huge degree Nietzsche's late days life mission, the transvaluation of values, through psychoanalytical scientific models, Jungian psychoanalysis, Mircea Eliade's religions' and myths' comparative studies and existential philosophy. He has accomplished to theorize a model of reality that allows the individual to connect to the essence (watch out: I'm saying "connect", not "grasp") of the human condition, which is the responsibility to harmonize chaos and order, Void and Light, to face and withstand suffering and create a meaningful life. If you just throw JBP's HUUUUUGE intellectual and human contribution (just read some of the comment section of his videos, people that have been heroin addicted thanking him for speaking his truth online) due to some of his classical liberal undoubtably unbalanced political views, I guess you're just judging the man through the narrow and, often, a little bit dirty lenses of your political views, which is not exactly the way a wise judgement is meant to be formulated. My personal deep belief is that the people who are mad at JBP feel how they feel due to a simple psychological dynamic he exposes in his biblical lectures: the fact that you see somebody emboding virtue better than you are may make you resentful, because his existence puts you in contact with your own inadequacies while the narcissistic arrogant and self-righteous ego with which you identify yourself is not willing to take responsibility to fix them. I'm infinitely grateful to Dr. Peterson for his contribution to humanity, much more than for how he has contributed to my own personal growth in life.

@DarthVagen 4 жыл бұрын

@@jose123001 " When has a radical libertarian ever caused a problem like a Communist/Socialist has? " Are you serious? "radical authoritarian in your mind is what most people call anarchists." You do realize that anarchism denies legitimacy of hierarchies and therefore authority. How do you manage to misunderstand concepts to the diametrically opposed? Please check the meaning of words before typing. Anarchism: belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion. Please, read at least some simple definition of words or concepts before communicating. This is just foolish and lazy on your part.

@timquigley986 3 жыл бұрын

@@ThinkingAboutChannel this was cringe

@sebsy15 4 жыл бұрын

12 Rules for Life is #1 international best seller.

@Rio-ke9he 6 жыл бұрын

destroyed Jordan Peterson 27 years ago

@jessegordon2867 5 жыл бұрын

Rio Rinanda Ismar how?

@timhorton2486 4 жыл бұрын

Jesse Gordon Jordan disregards Nietzsche’s account of truth and values. He believes that our values are biologically determined in many respects, while Nietzsche believed that we must burn off such conceptions as illegitimate attempts to limit our power, or our ability to interpret and reinterpret the world to our advantage.

@guardofinsanity8415 4 жыл бұрын

@@timhorton2486 Gigerenzer 2007. Chapter on morals.

@langlopaniflax5597 22 күн бұрын

Peterson is a dweeb and insufferable hypocrite especially in comparison to rick. Embarrassing.

@CyanAblaze Ай бұрын

"you cant make it disappear but it can make you disappear", wow

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

37:47 “This saturated information network is pornographic.”

@michaelhebert7338 6 жыл бұрын

Good lecture thanks for sharing.

@brandonmiles8174 3 жыл бұрын

"Reality itself is so twisted that it's (acid) a waste of time! Why would anyone take acid in this culture, to twist your mind... You don't need acid any more, it's just silly!"

@christianburke4220 4 жыл бұрын

This sure is a great mini-series

@tjwhite6052 2 жыл бұрын

His final comment in this video is apropos: "Fear death and realize that...." Sums it up nicely.

@RHatcherMD 7 ай бұрын

I love Rick Roderick and he is a brilliant lecturer and educator, but anyone who thinks LSD is ever superfluous has no true capacity to amuse themselves or to engage with the true nature of the world.

@babaku3062 6 жыл бұрын

I always saw those Nat Geo docs with marines in Afghanistan with Go Pro cams stuck to their helmets as something going wrong with mass culture, it scares me to see that there is an audience that "enjoys" that vicariously.

@counterr6750 5 жыл бұрын

TheLastMan Why did you need to put “enjoy” in quotes? People actually can enjoy violence and the sight of violence. It is even discussed in the Genealogy of morals, as an aspect of “master morality”. Enjoyment is a fact regardless of Nietzsche, though. Christians also enjoyed public executions

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

3:25 “The original project of psychoanalysis according to Freud was that _the Id or the ‘It’_ (the unconscious/unreflected parts of ourselves) _become reflected parts._ Become the I, the ego.”

@marxianspectre1275 3 жыл бұрын

This is so prescient.

@thereisonlythecave 8 жыл бұрын

Great lecture!

@devinbradshaw9756 Ай бұрын

Doesn’t know what the snake and eagle mean? Aesop maybe? Subtle hint towards Apollo and Dionysus?

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

6:40 *psychoanalysis in reverse* _postmodernism does not have a deferring relation to despair at all, just a bland banal smile at the end of a 10-step program_ “my god you can’t be cured of what you are!” [...] “A culture that picks its meaning up in that way is beneath contempt”

@johnmiller7453 5 жыл бұрын

I'll bet Rick would now agree that we have reached full on postmodernism. We are no longer moving in the direction of postmodernism. We have arrived folks.

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

john miller liquid modernity

@lukajung9051 4 жыл бұрын

Check out Hypermodernity by Lipovetsky

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

Luka jung “We have always been modern.” -Zizek

@ttacking_you Ай бұрын

Hey if acid fuck's you up in 2024, 1991 must've been ONE HELL of a year?!

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

The TAO means the way. The way is a good perspective answer on this problem. It accounts for things in dynamic motion, even you. The TAO is the middle path between all extremes, for to go too far is as bad as to fall too short, in the action chosen from Judgement. It is a compass to help you find an integrated answer.

@snappycatchy 4 жыл бұрын

Michael Fassbender would be good in the Zarathustra Netflix series.

@tehdii 3 ай бұрын

Blessed are the sleepy they soon drop off. I am reading Aczel Mystery of Alephs. He describes there Descartes, how he liked to sleep till middle of the day. What did kill Rene you ask? Queen of Sweden that wanted lectures by him, at 5 a.m. in January, in a library without heating. Poor sleepy head was dropped off in February by this obsessed early morning bird ;) We the sleepy one will be driven to extinction in that way, and it is a perfect irony )

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

You may be raised thinking the Glass is full. Then you have to live with it half full and half empty. How you bare the empty is a sign of character.

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

The Mind is collection of integrated experiences. And you can say you wear many hates of skill. But it is a museum that never ceases to collect and interpret. It is in Flux and dynamic. Like a beach from winter to winter it evolves but is the same beach. Your friends know you as a self. Data, from ST NG, said, "My neural network has grown accustom to your sensory input patterns". If the Mind is a side effect of the fact that you're alive, then, it copes from moment to moment with conditions.

@ttacking_you Ай бұрын

....Unless he meant that we don't need LSD *NOW* because those DMT cartridges are 1000% better?

@abcrane 3 жыл бұрын

Television destroys all other vision.

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

4:27 sounds like Rick would have liked Lacanian psychoanalysis..

@armchairpraxis7760 4 жыл бұрын

schizo-analaysis

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Jayman what are you saying?

@armchairpraxis7760 4 жыл бұрын

@@nightoftheworld guattari made some adjustments to lacan, think it would be preferable to go with guattari

@nightoftheworld 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Jayman please expand

@gravenewworld6521 2 жыл бұрын

What is that word of gramsci’s that the Prof is referring to?

@Smhallways 4 ай бұрын

Pretty sure its Interregnum. But it is not a new word, at least I highy doubt Gramsci invented it.

@hanskung3278 Жыл бұрын

Rick Roderick was the most interesting professor in the entire Teaching Co/ Great Courses catalog, and they removed him from it and now the catalog is filled with bland DIY courses, what a shame.

@sanfordsanford295 Жыл бұрын

How unfortunate. Since I found these lectures on youtube I've been listening to them again and again

@hanskung3278 Жыл бұрын

@@sanfordsanford295 It's the curse of political correctness. The " "great courses" has one course on Nietzsche, it's very wishy washy, its Nietzsche with a happy face.

@user-nb4ex5zk3w 6 ай бұрын

In my experience managers, academics never like to employ people more intelligent than they are....shows them up.

@hanskung3278 6 ай бұрын

@@user-nb4ex5zk3w I guess so....but about the Great courses, it's become a site to find courses about learning hobbies, not about learning exciting insights.

@7kurisu 11 жыл бұрын

brilliant. i dont think theres much doubt that war is virtual, like a video game. just ask prince harry

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

The tree pillars of ZEN. Faith and doubt and courage.

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Machine.

@Alex-xp9lu 4 жыл бұрын

Obviously Rick was never introduced to FitBit.

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

In Mark Twain's, The Mysterious Stranger, A man is cured of his unhappiness by being made MAD.

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

Billy Joel has a song called, 2000 years. Does it help?

@ThePartiallyExaminedLife 12 жыл бұрын

@McPrfctday West Texan.

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

Man Must Endure, in his coming as in his going hence, Ripeness is all. Markus Aurelius has something to say as a stoic. But is isn't Happy. it's just Practical.

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

Becoming

@shermeinb 5 жыл бұрын

Crack has a certain rationality to it...lol

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

Are you an immortal soul, or, a temporary biological machine? Does it matter which world view you take if you care for people? Or for what living has to offer? What you think is different from what you then choose to do. And self is often measured by choices. We are all a collection of smart and dumb. What is the self beyond the skill to navigate the market place? An effective awareness of good quality and poor quality things to choose from? Judgment?

@rgaleny 11 жыл бұрын

In the Movie, Arthur, Arthur goes to an office to see his father. He complains, nobody here smiles, Why doesn't anyone smile?" Hobson replies, "They smile at lunchtime." At least you can get a job in a "Money" Culture that you might enjoy leisure time for yourself. BUT, a neuvo riche slob who wins the lottery or trust fund baby, may be a tacky soul with money. What is character, well, what is it NOT, that might be a place to start.

@JS-dt1tn 3 жыл бұрын

pretty lame postmodern analysis in the middle here

@nightoftheworld 3 жыл бұрын

9:13 *madness* “There are far worse things than being mad. And one of them is to be in a culture that is mad and to consider yourself sane-that’s worse. To be involved in a _consensual hallucination of normalcy,_ is much worse than being _mad._ But maybe I’d like to valorize madness in this way.”