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303 Sartre and the Roads to Freedom v2 (1993)

Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 3: Sartre and the Roads to Freedom (CAS) [No video available for this take. Transcribed from the cassette version of the lecture.] Transcript: In this...

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304 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...

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305 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,...

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306 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...

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307 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....

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308 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…...

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100 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...

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200 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...

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300 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...

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blade 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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Rick Roderick Interview (1987)

INVITATION TO DIALOGUE – PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE Initiated by – ANNE BUTTIMER – TORSTEN HAGERSTRAND DR. RICK RODERICK – Department of Philosophy – DUKE UNIVERSITY Recorded at – THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS...

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ignorance 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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drivers’ license identitiy crisis

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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superman’s knowledge crystals

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...

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is 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...

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interpretation: 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...

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orwell’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...

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marcuse: 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...

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masters 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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react, follow, or replicate

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...

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mass 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...

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freud: 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...

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kafka’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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on grading, knowledge and power

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...

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new 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...

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marcuse’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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