The Dangerous, Bloody, Anti-Liberal Nietzsche with Dr. Martin Ruehl

<p>No serious consideration of values can ignore the ideas and philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writing in the late nineteenth century had a seismic impact on the twentieth century, and continues its enduring influence today.</p> <p><a href="https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/mar23" target="_blank">Dr. Martin Ruehl</a> of Cambridge University grew up with the influence of Nietzsche’s <em>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</em>, finding himself bewitched by a copy of the war edition of the book (kriegsausgabe) that was taken into WWI by his grandfather and then into WWII by his father.</p> <p>But Ruehl didn’t recognise the version of Nietzsche that was presented to him in academia and has since made it his mission to bring the bloody, dangerous, anti-liberal Nietzsche back into consciousness.</p> <p>Tune in for a masterclass on the philosophy and significance of Friedrich Nietzsche.</p> <p>(Episode recorded on 16th February 2022.)</p>