Peter Wessel Zapffe (1974, subtitled documentary)

His masterwork "On The Tragic" should be available sometime soon in:

English: https://www.peterlang.com/
Spanish: https://www.aquelarreediciones.com/

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Interesting documentary by NRK celebrating his 75th birthday, but due to the nature of the series ("Smiling Pens") much of the "darker" side of his philosophy was left out. Still I hope whoever is fond his work would find something in this jewel. Definitively it shows why his thought is extremely actual. The section of "On the tragic and pessimism" particularly stands out.

Incomplete (decided not to include a reenactment of a humurous text called "A psychoanalysis" as it had a lot of native wordplay, and a reading of his examen artium written in verse).


00:00 Reading of "The Pocketknife"

01:39 Intro - Zapffe in his house

04:03 Interview by August Mauritzen

08:57 About his cabin in the North

11:28 Childhood

15:17 About his book "Sense and Nonsense"

17:22 More about humor and Northern Norway

19:01 On the tragic and pessimism

24:08 Alpinism and Philosophy

26:03 About "life tasks"

27:53 Sigmund Kvaløy on Zapffe and eco-philosophy

30:52 Zapffe's Eleventh Commandment

32:15 Arne Bang-Hansen reads "The Road"





Translation of "The Road" by Ceciel Verheij & Jan van Boeckel, with the help of Eva Bakkeslett (extracted from Openairphilosophy)