Übermensch at Work

Übermensch at Work is the 66th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on April 20, 2015.

Opening Quote

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Show Notes

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock's Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock's long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. 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 into Julie and Mark's motivation, and Yoel plays a round of "Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?"  

• long take
  
• Julie and Mark
  
• Yoel Inbar
  
• Very Bad Wizards 
  
• Episode 22
  
• : An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness
  
• Rope
  
• Leopold and Loeb
  
• Paul Gauguin
  
• The Moon and Sixpence
  
• Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy
  
• Remembering When,
  
• What's the matter with a little brother sister action?
  
• Support Very Bad Wizards