Human, All Too Human | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Simon Chu, Jeff Morgan and Louise Wardle[1] |
Voices of | Clive Merrison |
Narrated by | Haydn Gwynne |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 3 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Simon Chu, Jeff Morgan and Louise Wardle |
Producer | Celia Z. Bargh |
Production locations | France, Germany, United Kingdom |
Cinematography | Patrick Duval and Douglas Hartington |
Editor | Michael Poole |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 50 minutes[1] |
Production companies | BBC and RM Arts[1] |
Original release | |
Network | BBC 2 |
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Human, All Too Human is a three-part 1999 documentary television series co-produced by the BBC and RM Arts.[1] It follows the lives of three prominent European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre.[1] The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label.
The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (in German: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister).[2]
This lucid series tells the stories of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre, three men who spent their lives in search of a philosophy that would make sense of this bewildering new world.
Near the end of his university career, Nietzsche completed Human, All-Too-Human (1878) — a book that marks a turning point in his philosophical style and that, while reinforcing his friendship with Rée, also ends his friendship with the anti-Semitic Wagner, who comes under attack in a thinly-disguised characterization of 'the artist.'