Ep. 56: It's All Socrates' Fault
Young Heretics
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The Death of Nitha by Walter Kaufman
Nitha has been accused of a kind of inveterate anti semitism. calfin basically showed that a lot of that was inserted after his death by his sister, who ended up taking care of him and and running his estates during his madness,. after he died. So here's what micha has to say about his book. He says, the question of the greek's relation to pain, his degree of sensitivity, is basic. Did this relation remain constant, or did it change radically? The question is whether his ever stronger craving for beauty, for festival pleasures, new cults, was rooted in some deficiency, privation, melancholy pain. What then would be
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