The Politics of Friedrich Nietzsche: German Idealism, Nazism, and Freud
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Wes Alwan is one fourth of The Partially Examined Life, a podcast and blog dedicated to studying and teaching philosophy. Wes is a writer and researcher living in Boston who studied ancient philosophy, Kant and Nietzsche in graduate school.
Wes joins Brett to discuss the political relevance of the famous 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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| 1:10.8 | I'm your host Anne Comrade, Bredoche and today we have on West Allwyn from the partially |
| 1:15.2 | exam and life to talk about the political relevance of Frederick Nietzsche. |
| 1:19.3 | West, would you like to introduce yourself and say a little bit about your background |
| 1:22.2 | for anyone who doesn't know who you are? |
| 1:23.7 | Sure, yeah, so I'm one of four panelists on the partially exam and life philosophy |
| 1:29.2 | podcast that we've been doing since 2009 I think, as the year, I always get confused |
| 1:35.0 | with it 2008 or 9. |
| 1:36.6 | So I went to undergrad at St. John's College which is a small great book, liberal arts |
| 1:41.5 | school and then I went to grad school at the University of Texas at Austin and ended |
| 1:47.3 | up doing a master's thesis on Nietzsche and Marx which does not make me an expert either |
| 1:53.5 | necessarily but we've talked a lot about Nietzsche on my podcast and I do have a lot to |
| 1:58.8 | say about him. |
| 1:59.8 | Yeah, so currently I've studied a lot of psychoanalysis and I'm currently finishing a doctorate in |
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