Rick Roderick on Nietzsche and the Will to Power [full length]

This video is 6th in the 8-part series, Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991).
Lecture notes:
I. A myth about Nietzsche is that his work is related to Fascism
This is because his texts have been used by socialist organizations
Nietzsche viewed himself as a "good European" rather than a "good German".
Nietzsche scorned German nationalism.
Many interesting tex have risks.
The return of Nietzsche in the 60′s and his re-return in the 80′s and 90′s, have been interpreted as anarchist and left-wing.
Nietzsche's text allows for multiple political uses.
II. "The Will to Power" is the name of a text was compiled by Nietzsche's sister.
A. Nietzsche's view of power is not as simple as the domination of one person over another. This is because there is no essential self, only multiple personas that have the coherence of a character.
B. Selves aren't simple, and neither is power.
C. Power is applied vertically. We internalize relations of power within ourselves (micrological power).
D. A good conscience and fairness are structured by power.
E. For Nietzsche, power is relational, a complex relational set of intervening and interacting effects.
III. Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" shows us the politics of reading Nietzsche.
A. Foucault does a genealogy of forms of punishment -- how they changed from the feudal to the modern period.
B. "The Spectacle of the Scaffold" details an execution and the conditions of possibility for those practices.
C. A condition of reversal occurs when the victim becomes the local point and wins sympathy of the crowd.
D. Bentham. the utilitarian, designed the "panoptical" which was more of a principle than a building.
1. There was surveillance power -- you can be seen, but you can't see them.
2. It is a new mode of discipline which signifies the expansion of power across many aspects of life.
E. Another modern day reversal is occurring in the university. Knowledge seems free of power, but according to Nietzsche, where there is knowledge, there are the effects of power.
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A philosophy podcast, The Partially Examined Life, held a detailed discussion of Nietzsche, which can be found here:
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[@Purkinje90]

"Sometimes we meet the enemy, and it's us." What a note to end on! Thanks for posting.

[@bgc6439]

"It takes more courage to be a pimp than a politician, in many ways. Though, in other ways, the jobs are quite similar."

[@SwordShape]

VERY well done. an excellent nuanced insight into Nietzsche. this is so much better than even courses Ive taken at Yale on Nietzsche. thank you for upload.

[@glenmccarthy8482]

Fantastic lecturer , so enjoyable listening to his opinions with that glorious accent.

[@Eternalised]

notes: 18:47 relationality wTp

[@rogersyversen3633]

I find it interesting how game of thrones is drawing on motivations from feudal times but leaves out completely the dynamic between the public/the masses vs. the monarch. it's only a game between kings and not a game of pleasing the masses or controlling the masses in particular ways. there are some variants of it in terms of religious movements, but thats just the discursive object of secularism speaking. one can claim that entertainment like this is thoroughly ingrained in the normalization of power. sprinkle with a tease of sex and you have the perfect commodity.

[@bad_metaphor]

Nice response. I realize this is a few years after your comment, but you should make a video about it.

[@iampennochio]

I was in the bank the other day when a lady asked me to check her balance so i pushed her over.

[@robertvillegas1329]

I live in El Paso Texas and took many philosophy courses at utep and this professor is free of charge !!! Sophist waiving the fee.nice.

[@alruthers9484]

10:20 It takes more courage to live under a bridge than to create your own business and successfully operate it. I understand, after watching 12+ hours of Rick, why he always chose to slight "the right". Despite his very obvious left bias, I have always enjoyed his perspectives.

[@nightoftheworld]

45:52 *Difficulty of locating the other in oneself* “Ok a little biblical scholarship here. _Easy to find the mote in your brothers eye, difficult to see the one in your own._ Very difficult. So this account of power reminds us that the totalitarian is not the _other..._ sometimes we meet the enemy and it’s us.”

[@pikiwiki]

pogo

[@nightoftheworld]

@@pikiwiki what’s this mean

[@pikiwiki]

@@nightoftheworld we have met the enemy and it is us

[@nightoftheworld]

@@pikiwiki indeed. Do you know of Lacan or Zizek?

[@glenmccarthy8482]

Wonderful lecturer.He makes learning enjoyable.

[@nightoftheworld]

45:35 “What I would like for us to recognize is that we are totalitarians as well.”

[@SwordShape]

this is a very smart man. worth of discussing Nietzsche

[@rohme]

I admire Rick Roderick, a truly fantastic lecturer!

[@FranksRealm]

His comment about American intellectuals swooning over the British intellectuals due to their accent is so true haha🤣 Great lecture, I wonder what he would think about our current world if he was still alive. .

[@mistadopeyy]

Great lecture but sad to see he mentioned the old horse story myth.

[@christopherellis2663]

22:43 in fact. The church handed them over to the civil authorities for execution. The judiciary and the executive were separate. They were given every chance to relent. The Protestants operated under different rules.

[@naraicnollam3086]

This man’s brilliant

[@drcunda1]

The will to power (German: der Wille zur Macht) is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans. However, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate. 🎯

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

Very interesting. I am grateful.

[@txikitofandango]

Rick says some heroic things at times, but it's hard to square what he says with what I've read in Nietzsche. Criticizing power via "genealogies" can only take you so far. The point is, power is already working in you. The point is to grab hold of it

[@chrisgumb8986]

Is "micrological power" a term that we first see in Foucault's work?

[@dustiny.334]

***** it would have be the other way around as nietzsche came before foucault. but foucault was really influenced by nietzsche.

[@nickeisele6]

Not that I can remember. I think the term Roderick refers to here is actually "micropolitical." Earliest usage I can find is from the World Politics journal 1961. Did Roderick invent this term? I'm using it either way!

[@WhatTheThunderSaid3]

@@nickeisele6 probably a reference to Delueze and Guattari's analysis of capitalism, also influenced by Nietzsche

[@scioarete7987]

@@WhatTheThunderSaid3 nice user name

[@michaelhebert7338]

Good lecture thanks for sharing.

[@FlottisPar]

Just imagine what Foucault would have said about social media.

[@pantera29palms]

F'ing incredible lecture.

[@picklesnorf101]

It's amazing how prescient Rick was in his assessment. Borderline prophecy.

[@enlightenedturtle9507]

C'mon

[@rodneysaito7924]

I'm not here to gather political justifications for absurd arguments. I'm here as an eternal soul. I am everything and I am nothing but I am here.

[@ShoaibRashdi]

20:00

[@UrukEns4]

I like Rick Rodericks' Humanistic Insight wheres seeing the Subtlties of the Micrologica esence of Humanity, as well as the Economomist views of the Macrological Death as a process in process.

[@zatoichiable]

How do you assest validity of philosophy? will it be according to its success and longevity? If Facism won in the WWII will that prove validity?

[@schneblen]

I came from a video analysis on the evil of Max Cady and the man explaining it all has a southern accent which is scarily close to de Niros southern accent lol

[@7kurisu]

and i need to learn where the keys on my keyboard are

[@devinbradshaw9756]

This man just wanted his father to love him. Shaky on the feet

[@7kurisu]

we need more intellectuals lick this in our business, production oriented universities!

[@robertverderese5781]

I thought this lecture, unlike many of Rodericks,' was wanting in lucidity of presentation. Too much digression, not enough 'pith.

[@potowogreedo]

That's a valid perspective for sure, but I felt differently (and enjoyed the learning experience) after seeing it as demonstrating the living practice, rather than a distanced description of the features of the practice.

[@joygillmoriah2562]

agreed tethys, it's the delivery that helps me return to itover time and helps it's message some times with this lecture series I do feel he could have gone deeper ut that may just be because there's even more material now to digest using this perspective

[@potowogreedo]

"there's even more material now to digest using this perspective" You can say that again... Though I don't think we have time for such 'frivolities' any more. The abstraction of 'nation states' doesn't seem to be conducive to keeping the ecology ticking over... I'm fairly convinced we're already far down a path of no return.

[@heyitsmoonlight]

Professor looked like Russell Crowe. 🙂

[@raincat9408]

This guy looks like he is in space

[@humbertesque]

42:02 dat knock on wood.

[@shaygahweh]

glorious

[@derekburfoot317]

because he thought j s mills was a blockhead :DDDDD hahahah so blunt!!

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[@robertvillegas1329]

Woahhh!!!

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[@fortunatomartino9797]

Professor will you address the current victory of slave morality

[@christopherhamilton3621]

😂

[@terryclapp8169]

Too much time spent on interpretations of interpretations of Nietzsche. I've learned more about the Will to Power from 10 minute videos from amateurs.

[@videosynth2]

lol

[@fortunatomartino9797]

We are the enemy

[@TheChiefRockah]

yeah he's too less content and too much entertainment. There could've been said more about the actual topic but I think he wanted to bring his point , which he did. bluarrrrgh blaaa

[@thomass6757]

His "subtle & evenhanded" politics get real old, real fast. Did the term "virtue signalling" even exist back then?

[@kidkangaroo5213]

So you're attacking his left leaning politics simply because they're left? Wouldn't it be better to debunk the "left" points he's making rather than go "oh boohoo, man has different opinion than me". Tell me, would you write the same comment, if he made arguments for the right in the same fashion?

[@mapleglazedsocialist6995]

@Thomas S In classic right wing turd fashion you slander a reputable intellectual of philosophy about his philosophically driven views of politics. Instead of engaging his ideas you hand wave them with no argument at all other than the suggestion that Roderick was merely “virtue signalling”. You must be one of those new age “critical thinkers” haha

[@alexey5481]

Wouldn't you rather him be overt, as he is, in his biases rather than 'propagandize' behind a façade of neutrality? When he's up front you can be a "resistant reader," so to speak.

[@JackM12345100]

@@mapleglazedsocialist6995 It's funny to me how you do exactly what you criticize in your comment. Notice your use of the word "turd" to describe the "right wing" and your ad hominem description of Roderick as a "reputable intellectual". It's hard to know what the Left lacks more, self-awareness or honesty.

[@JackM12345100]

@@nightoftheworld How is it ad hominem if he is criticizing the words coming out of his mouth?