This one leaves a great deal to be desired. As a guide to his philosophical work, it is worse than useless, and full of bromides that make Nietzsche out to be a proto-existentialist or self-help pop psychologist, and it even resurrects various myths about Nietzsche. The problem results primarily from the fact that the film-makers appear to have relied almost entirely on non-philosophers, and even on non-scholars (the writer Leslie Chamberlain is pleasantly trite and uncomprehending, and the novelist Will Self, who is featured quite a bit, is criminally stupid [really, there should be a law against him ever speaking about Nietzsche in public again!]). There is some nice footage of important places in Nietzsche's life, so this film is perhaps best watched with the sound off.
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…



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