Return to Nature!

Video deals with the question: what is nature?

Different people have different answers. Rousseau thought that nature was benign. This view of nature still permeates our culture. But is it correct?

The answer, according to Paglia, is no. She argues that nature is violence. To embrace nature is to embrace sadism.


The video deals with a wide array of topics. Discusses the enlightenment, Rousseau, de Sade, German Romanticism and the rise of Nazism.

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