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  • 1999-08-08T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 50m
  • 2h 30m (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Human, All Too Human is a three-part 1999 documentary television series co-produced by the BBC and RM Arts. It follows the lives of three prominent European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. 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.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-08-08T23:00:00Z

1x01 Beyond Good and Evil

Series Premiere

1x01 Beyond Good and Evil

  • 1999-08-08T23:00:00Z50m

Beyond Good and Evil describes the life of Friedrich Nietzsche and his gradual shift from religion to nihilism, and finally, to insanity. Towards the end of his life, his sister Elizabeth is depicted as a Nazi sympathizer who took advantage of his mental condition by falsifying his works and letters and attempted to portray him as proto-Fascist thinker.

1999-08-09T23:00:00Z

1x02 Thinking the Unthinkable

1x02 Thinking the Unthinkable

  • 1999-08-09T23:00:00Z50m

A profile of the radical German philosopher whose affiliation with the Nazi Party was eventually forgiven, largely due to the support of his Jewish former-lover Hanna Arrant.

1999-08-10T23:00:00Z

1x03 The Road to Freedom

1x03 The Road to Freedom

  • 1999-08-10T23:00:00Z50m

A biographical study of French philosopher, playwright and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre , exploring the aetiology of his thought and how his popularisation of existentialism radically changed the way we see ourselves.

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