Alan Jacobs


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So: my poor wife has broken her humerus, near the top of her arm. You can’t put a cast on such an injury, you just have to put it in a sling, keep it still, and take meds for the inevitable pain. There’s little she can do for herself, so I’ve been busy.

I have missed some classes, so I made an informal audio lecture to try to bridge the transition from Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals to Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. It covers in 43 minutes what needed to be covered in three hours or so. On a whim, I’m posting it here so anyone interested can learn the kinds of things I typically talk about. It’s not polished, but then I guess I myself am pretty unpolished … especially in my current state of exhaustion.

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