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March 6, 2024 48 mins

Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life incapacitated by illness while his sister bent his works to her use as a social-climbing fascist.

Starring Laura Ramoso as Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Flula Borg as Friedrich Nietzsche.

Also featuring Matt Gourley, Jessica Chaffin, and Anja Albertson.

 

Source List:

Nietzsche’s Sister and the Will to Power by Carol Diethe, First Illinois Paperback, ©2007, ©2003 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

I Am Dynamite!, by Sue Prideaux, ©2018, Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York

In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, ©2022 by Nate Anderson, WW Norton & Co

The Making of Frederich Nietzsche: The Quest For Identity 1844-1869

By Daniel Blue , ©2016, University Printing House, Cambridge CB2, 8BS United Kingdom

The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols And Other Writings

by Frederich Nietzsche, Edited by Aaron Ridley and Judith Norman

Cambridge University Press, ©2005

Haaretz, Was Nietzsche Hitler’s Spiritual Godfather?

Big Think, How the Nazis Hijacked Nietzsche, and How it Can Happen to Anybody

The Guardian, Far Right, Misogynist, Humorless? Why Nietzsche is Misunderstood

The Nietzsche Channel, Nietzsche’s Writings as a Student

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche

The New York Times, Rocken Journal, No Superman, Perhaps, but the Titan of his Town

https://www.philosophizethis.org/

Cambridge University Press, Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophize This!

London Review of Books, It Wasn’t Him, It Was Her

Britannica, Return from Exile of Richard Wagner

Mark as Played

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