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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 “now I know who I really am” kind of crap. Because when we are through, we won’t know! I don’t know. If […]
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. It’s a standard novelistic beginning. Gibson begins his novel Neuromancer with the following sentence, and I consider it the best first sentence in 20th century […]
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 was Nihilism. A culture where there was no fabric from which to construct meaning. Now, Nihilism, in a certain way won’t be used […]
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 that knowledge is a form of power. Now that is scandalous because knowledge is knowledge. It’s objective. You know, like journalism. And it would […]
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 of the state is a world phenomenon. It’s not localisable. The process of an economy becoming ever more diverse – commodifying ever more sections […]
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 conscious mind to a garrison. A captured, tiny garrison in an immense city. The city of Rome. With all its layers of history. […]
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 remaining parts of that garrison become unconscious. It’s precisely to reverse that process of enlightenment. Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse gear. Precisely to wipe out […]
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 psychoanalysis in reverse: to make the parts of us that think into ones that don’t; just react, follow, or replicate. One thing […]
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 like childhood’s end for our culture. You follow me. It’s childhood’s end. You know how you can believe something when you are a child… and […]
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 utopian situation, but by its own terms, with its own terms. I also think that’s not only a good strategy as a style of critique, but […]
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 under siege, is we are interpretative beings. And now, by the late 20th century, we are in a situation […]
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 hold against him. I wish more academics did. I think it's pedagogically useful not […]
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 may just gloss it. It’s a modern myth that I’d like to spell out for you that […]
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 simple as I can. I love to use references to movies, I mean not many of us read any more, but a lot […]
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, by that I don’t mean a really highly developed theory like in quantum mechanics or […]
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 afraid is going to be just a part of pop psychology: “the politics of meaning”. I don’t […]
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 AT AUSTIN – April 8, 1987 AB: Today we have the pleasure of meeting Doctor Rick Roderick, a philosopher from Duke University who […]
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 our larger questions, in particular our questions concerning our selves, our projects, our questions concerning our own selves, our projects, our place in […]
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 life, which was relatively uneventful. Nietzsche was not gay, and had maybe one sexual encounter ever. Nietzsche is the last important thinker of the […]
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 turned from movement of stars and composition of the earth toward human matters by separating scientific from philosophic discourse. Dialogic form posits dialogue as essential to […]
Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Baudrillard, a French social theorist. Actually that now is a misnomer since one of Baudrillard’s theses is the disappearance of the […]
Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 7: Derrida and the Ends of Man.avi Transcript: In this lecture, ah, we are going to do something that from the viewpoint of many people is just simply outrageous. Ah, we are going to move from, ah, two figures who at least have […]
Last updated: 18 June 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 6: Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human.avi Transcript: In our last, ah, lecture we discussed Habermas and I think that we left out at least one thing I need to begin with before I proceed with, ah, Foucault. And that’s Habermas’ view […]
Last updated: 18 June 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 5: Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity.avi Transcript: In this lecture I want to discuss one of the most important, ah, philosophers who is still working, ah, still alive. Ah, his work ranges over many areas in, ah, social theory, ah, it […]
Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man.avi Transcript: Okay, this is the fourth lecture and we are going to pick things up a little bit here because we have a philosopher who I came in contact with in college through pamphlets and so this is someone I really enjoy, and […]
Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 3: Sartre and the Roads to Freedom (CAS).mp3 [No video available for this take. Transcribed from the cassette version of the lecture.] Transcript: In this third lecture I would like to discuss a figure that is in one sense a paradigmatic intellectual of the 20th Century – certainly […]