Human, All Too Human (TV series)

Human, All Too Human
Screenshot of the opening titles consisting of three black and white drawings depicting Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger.
Opening titles
GenreDocumentary
Directed bySimon Chu, Jeff Morgan and Louise Wardle[1]
Voices ofClive Merrison
Narrated byHaydn Gwynne
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes3
Production
Executive producersSimon Chu, Jeff Morgan and Louise Wardle
ProducerCelia Z. Bargh
Production locationsFrance, Germany, United Kingdom
CinematographyPatrick Duval and Douglas Hartington
EditorMichael Poole
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time50 minutes[1]
Production companiesBBC and RM Arts[1]
Original release
NetworkBBC 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]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Human, All Too Human (8679)". EuroArts. Archived from the original on 2 July 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013. 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.
  2. ^ Wicks, Robert (29 April 2011). Zalta, Edward N (ed.). "Friedrich Nietzsche". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. ISSN 1095-5054. Retrieved 2 July 2013. 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.'