303 Sartre and the Roads to Freedom v2 (1993)
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View Article304 Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man (1993)
Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man Transcript: Okay, this is the fourth lecture and we are going to pick things up a little bit here because we have a...
View Article305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)
Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 5: Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity Transcript: In this lecture I want to discuss one of the most important philosophers who is still working,...
View Article306 Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human (1993)
Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 6: Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human Transcript: In our last lecture we discussed Habermas and I think that we left out at least one thing I need...
View Article307 Derrida and the Ends of Man (1993)
Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 7: Derrida and the Ends of Man Transcript: In this lecture we are going to do something that from the viewpoint of many people is just simply outrageous....
View Article308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993)
Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies Transcript: In the final lecture on the The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Baudrillard, a French social theorist…...
View Article100 Guide: Philosophy and Human Values (1990)
Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Rick Roderick, Ph. D. Lecture One: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry The trial and death of Socrates inaugurated the Western philosophical tradition. Investigation...
View Article200 Guide: Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991)
Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991) Rick Roderick, Ph. D. Lecture One: Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker Things to know about Nietzsche The is a difference between Nietzsche’s text and his...
View Article300 Guide: The Self Under Siege (1993)
The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the 20th Century (1993) Rick Roderick, Ph. D. Lecture One: The Masters of Suspicion Current professional philosophy is “deflationary” in that it gives no answers to...
View Articleblade runner and sartre’s roads to freedom
From: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 8: Nietzsche’s Progeny Transcript: You know, how many novels begin with sentences describing the sky and the landscape. There are so many....
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View Articleignorance and despair as cultural phenomena
From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 1: The Masters of Suspicion Transcript: …and I don’t want to go off in this first lecture on a long, ah, exegetical set of remarks on this new phrase, which I am...
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From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 1: The Masters of Suspicion Transcript: …and I would like to argue in a strong sense that every one of us has some kind of theory of what we are as a person. Now,...
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From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 1: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry Transcript: …and then that makes knowing yourself a crucially important part of knowledge. Now I’ll make this as...
View Articleis evolution comforting?
From: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 1: Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker Transcript: This is kind of a modern myth I am about to spell out for you. In fact I may not read it, I...
View Articleinterpretation: derrida’s spurs, nietzsche’s style
From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 7: Derrida and the Ends of Man Transcript: …and ah, I think that is not at all a bad effect that Derrida has had. The fact that he has a sense of humour I don’t...
View Articleorwell’s resistance and human faces
From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 5: Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity Transcript: I mean, in a certain way, one of the characteristics of what the self is, and one of the reasons it’s...
View Articlemarcuse: freedom, happiness, creativity
From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man Transcript: …now, that’s the method within which Marcuse criticises capitalist society. Not with external norms drawn from some...
View Articlemasters of suspicion: marx, nietzsche, freud
From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 1: The Masters of Suspicion Transcript: After these three are through with our intellectual culture: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, no-one can believe. No-one. It’s...
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From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: …but in a culture so overloaded, where we already suspect – if we don’t know – that it’s goal is...
View Articlemass culture is enlightenment in reverse gear
From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: The goal of a mass telecommunication culture is psychoanalysis in reverse. It’s that the little, last...
View Articlefreud: civilisation and its discontents
From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: Freud compares the conscious mind, in the book I have – I am talking about now, he compares the...
View Articlekafka’s commodified sunday stroll
From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche – Knowledge and Belief Transcript: …so that the process of a world becoming bureaucratically more complex and more intrusive at the level...
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From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche – Knowledge and Belief Transcript: First, what’s supposed to be so scandalous about Nietzsche. Nietzsche is supposed to hold the scandalous...
View Articlenew festivals, new games, new myths
From: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 1: Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker Transcript: …again, this word “Nihilism” I’ll… I’ll say a bit more about. In a context where the threat...
View Articlemarcuse’s self help program
From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse And One-Dimensional Man Transcript: I didn’t want these lectures to turn into some kind of funky… kind of Tony Robbins course in self development. Like...
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