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SUMMARY:Nietzsche: Divine Madness - Sam Cane\, Fitzwilliam Museum\, Cambri
 dge
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CONTACT:Miss Clare Buckley
DESCRIPTION:“Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the 
 bright morning hours\, ran to the market place\, and cried incessantly: 
 ‘I seek God! I seek God!’”\n\nThere can be few who have not heard th
 ese\, the opening remarks of a passage in The Gay Science (1882)\, much le
 ss of their author\, German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche\, a fi
 gure who has exerted an influence on the modern mind as tangible and signi
 ficant as Darwin\, Marx or Freud.\n\nThe purpose of this seminar is two-fo
 ld – to explore Nietzsche’s unique and incomparable impact\, not only 
 on contemporary philosophy but on mainstream popular culture\, in particul
 ar on music\, cinema and fiction\; and to consider whether his notorious p
 roclamation of divine murder is really the radical scepticism for which it
  has so often been taken. In reflecting on these themes\, we will encounte
 r a thinker who\, in transcending purely philosophical boundaries\, emerge
 s as the quintessential polymath who rendered nihilism not a destructive f
 orce but an uncompromising and fiercely original vehicle for social and in
 tellectual change.\n\nFor a translation of the ‘Madman’ passage\, as r
 eproduced by one of Nietzsche’s foremost translators\, Walter Kaufmann\,
  see: http://www.historyguide.org/europe/madman.html
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Pembroke College
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