Episode 66: Übermensch at Work
Summary: <p></p><p>Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of <em>Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren)</em> joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_take">long take</a> masterpiece/gimmick <em>Rope. </em>Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, <em>Rope </em>tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their <em>Ü</em><em>bermensch </em>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 <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/experiments-in-philosophy/200804/what-s-the-matter-little-brothersister-action">Julie and Mark</a>’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?” </p><h2>Links</h2><ul> <li> <a href="http://yoelinbar.net/">Yoel Inbar</a> [yoelinbar.net]</li> <li> <a href="http://verybadwizards.com/episodes/22">Very Bad Wizards </a><a href="http://verybadwizards.com/episodes/22">Episode 22</a><span><a href="http://verybadwizards.com/episodes/22">: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness</a> [verybadwizards.com]</span> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/">Rope</a> [IMDB.com]</li> <li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb">Leopold and Loeb</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/leopold-and-loebs-criminal-minds-996498/?no-ist">Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds</a> (Smithsonian Magazine)</li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm">The Leopold and Loeb Trial Page</a> (UMKC Law)</li> <li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin">Paul Gauguin</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_Sixpence">The Moon and Sixpence</a> by W. Somerset Maugham [wikipedia.org]</li> <li> <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/">Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy</a> [plato.stanford.edu]</li> <li>Damasio, A. "<a href="http://www.antonellapavese.com/papers/damasio_remembwhen.pdf">Remembering When,</a>" Scientific American, 2002. [antonellapavese.com]</li> <li> <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/experiments-in-philosophy/200804/what-s-the-matter-little-brothersister-action">What's the matter with a little brother sister action?</a> by Tamler Sommers [psychologytoday.com]</li> </ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/verybadwizards">Support Very Bad Wizards</a></p>
