• 3233 views

    Lec 14 - Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality

    "Lec 14 - Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality" Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Today we take a bridge into the twentieth century, constructed by Nietzsche, Freud, and Weber's critical theory. Each author is different in important ways, but they also agree on two crucial points: we must subject our consciousness and assumptions to critical scrutiny and, along with increasing liberation and rationalization in some ways, modern society also has repressive elements. Nietzsche is the oldest of these thinkers; he dies in 1900 and stops working a decade before due to mental illness. While he was ill, his sister, a proto-Nazi and associate of Hitler, cared for him. Her control of his papers and how they were released to the public painted him as a proto-Nazi himself, but reading his whole oeuvre illuminates that Nietzsche subjected Judaism and Christianity to the same scrutiny. In The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche attempts to use the genealogy method to be critical of modern morality without taking a certain vantage point. We discuss most specifically his genealogy of the ideas of good and bad and of good and evil. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Nietzsche, Freud and Weber and The Problem of Modernity 10:23 - Chapter 2. Nietzsche in a Historical Context 25:35 - Chapter 3. Nietzsche's Major Works 33:21 - Chapter 4. Major Themes in "On the Genealogy of Morals" Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2009.

    Video is embedded from external source so embedding is not available.

    Video is embedded from external source so download is not available.

    Here is the next lecture for this course

    Watch NEXT
    LECTURE
    3093 views     Dangerous Knowledge by BBC Part 6-10

    Lec 15 - Freud on Sexuality and Civilization

     53:29
    Lecture List | Course Details | Contents | Related

    No content is added to this lecture.

    Go to course:

    This video is a part of a lecture series from of Yale