Episode 66: Übermensch at Work - a podcast by Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
from 2015-04-20T00:00
Special guest Yoel Inbar (author ofHitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’slong takemasterpiece/gimmickRope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb,Ropetells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermenschstatus. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper intoJulie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”
Links
- Yoel Inbar[yoelinbar.net]
- Very Bad Wizards Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness [verybadwizards.com]
- Rope[IMDB.com]
- Leopold and Loeb [wikipedia.org]
- Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds(Smithsonian Magazine)
- The Leopold and Loeb Trial Page(UMKC Law)
- Paul Gauguin [wikipedia.org]
- The Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset Maugham [wikipedia.org]
- Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy [plato.stanford.edu]
- Damasio, A. "Remembering When," Scientific American, 2002. [antonellapavese.com]
- What's the matter with a little brother sister action?by Tamler Sommers [psychologytoday.com]
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