April 05, 2004

Questions to answer
Nietsches view on human nature
The concept of god is dead
What is the superman/ubermencsch

The date is 1880, 1914, years of crisis, reference to, but not in the text
Writing about the subconscious, non rational behavior, philosopher
Catalysts of change, imperialism, indusitrliams (2nd industrial revolution)
Coal and iron, steal oil electicty in the 2nd one
Feeding the indusitrialied poor with canned goods (spam, anyone?)
Challenges to bourgeois liberalism -- this is a question on the final, political economical social etc

Internationalism vs nationalism (study of propaganda, beginning of)
West is best
West and the rest
Problems surfacing in this decade lead to the first world war
Marxists - own means of production equals power
"fell on deaf ears"
Pressure to democracy and access to education in the 1880s
Rise of the white collar worker (marxist confusion at)
They are proletariage by wage, bourgeois by value
Econimcs, economic nationalism vs free trade
Eikreisunqpolitik - politcs ofencriclement
Britain and france hold germany down (those to blame for the world war)
Does marxist philosphy resemble wikisim?

Professor wants to do a study on the history of tasters, those who died in the tasting of food for royalty
Fin de siecle, french phrase, end of the century)
Nietsche says it's a period of overripeness
The rise Avant-guarde movements (cutting edge)
Crises ideologies, streams of thought
The role of intellect and reason in man's behavior
Embourgeoisement (an insult)
Applie pie diplomacyy, a slogan for imperialism
Ethnocentrism
Xenophobic
Oxford english dictionary (oed)
Heatehn, non0european, non-christian (a definition that surfaced in the oed
Marxist revisionism
Reform is a superstructure
Social democractic party, with orhodox marxist beliefs
Change in the super structure to leak into the substructure (that's their dedication)
Lenin's revisionism - eastern marixsm, vanguard, russian marxism (lenanism)
Nietzsche, nihilism, debunking, pessimistic
Greatest defend of the individual
Morality avenge quirks decadents (keywords of a missing quote that I never wrote down)
Says death is the ultimate phobia
Only man ponders immortality/mortality

Hates Christianity
Nationalism
Bourgeois something… (who hates these things? And bourgeoise what?)
The rise of herd culture, says Nietzsche
Mediocre means ordinary
Genius and the truth individual
Conspiracy against creative genius
The Conspiracy is composed of two things
- Bourgeoise values
- Christian piety/humility

Both of which are pesudo values
Together, the values negate each other
This makes everyone the same, the dwarfing effect (I say great equalizer)
Why does freud say men come together to form a society?
Define what Jung means by the unconscious?
Freud's view of man's nature, definitions of id, ego, super ego, and the description of the Oedipus Complex

Posted by Mark Canlas at April 5, 2004 06:51 AM
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