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By: ctrlshift

ctrlshift — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:40:00 +0000

Hi Beck, You can download the source videos I used to create the youtube videos here: http://www.wimpywombat.net/rickroderick/1993%20Self%20Under%20Siege%20%28fixed%29/

By: Beck Devenyns

Beck Devenyns — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:40:26 +0000

Does anyone know if The Self Under Siege is available on DVD? My philosophy club wants to watch the videos, but our connection for YouTube streaming is undependable. I don’t believe the Teaching Company publishes them any longer.

By: gaurau ernesto alexender

gaurau ernesto alexender — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:17:46 +0000

wow,i hav gone through some of his lectures, if hav find some remarkable pnts in it.althoug he is great guy what a thinking.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:49:31 +0000

After entertaining the idea of the hyper-real, I have been pondering, through my own procrastination and pessimism that I am creating a hyper-falsity or negative or illusion. I Believe the hyper illusion is the assumption of a certain condition and then further elaboration through the imagination that it is real. Thus a perpetuation of an illusion after its imagination and then into reality and ultimatley becoming my perception.

By: Razak

Razak — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:43:24 +0000

Dr.Roderick may your soul rest in perfect peace.I have been listening to this series of lectures and always wondered why haven’t I ever cross his work[Dr.Roderick Rick] earlier.I am not good with words but will say this a great mind has been lost.

By: mac

mac — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:24:10 +0000

i have been hooked on philosophy for a long time, roderick made it interesting again. thanks for producing the series. mac

By: Darren Crawford

Darren Crawford — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:43:58 +0000

Sometimes I wonder what, or where I would be had I discovered these lectures earlier. Dr. Roderick’s lectures startled something: permanently unsettling, and rekindled my love for philosophy.

By: David Smith

David Smith — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:39:59 +0000

Hey Marshall, I was really saddened to hear of the untimely passing of your dad Rick. Such a man can’t help but leave a massive hole in your life. You have my sincerest best wishes and empathy. Your dad seemed to me, to be one of the few people I have come across whose intellect was sharp as a razor, but who kept the easy human quality I think we all loved and respected about him. He wanted to inform, he genuinely wanted others to understand. And wasn’t so impressed by his self importance that he became an obstacle to this. A rare and deeply authentic kind of educator. I never met him face to face, and only know him through his work and his lectures. But his quality as a person, a natural person is unmistakable to me. I hope you and your family feel better in time.

Deepest Regards and best wishes David Smith.

By: Henri Montandon

Henri Montandon — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:00:05 +0000

I couldn’t remember the quote. It was something like, “A ________ once is a necessity forever.” Google pointed me here.

Rick Roderick felt like a close friend – one who I never met. The incongruity of the West Texas drawl and the philosophical acumen always tickled me.

After Derrida and Nietschze the philosopher who taught me the most.

It’s hard to say whether his philosophy drove his life or his life drove his philosophy. He was a master of suspicion.

Death is the only truly democratic undertaking.

By: Joe Hayns

Joe Hayns — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:53:29 +0000

To add, there are other great lecture series on Youtube; try Brian McGee’s interview series, Appadurai’s reading of Capital, the European Graduate School’s page (Baudrillard, Zizek, Badiou), for just a few.

By: Joe Hayns

Joe Hayns — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:49:33 +0000

I wish more of the internet was like this. I wonder what Rick Roderick would have made of the medium, if that’s even the proper way describe the internet (?)
It seems as if one of his aims was to render various (potentially) emancipatory projects understandable to a wider audience, or to put it another way, to take philosophy out of itself. I don’t think the obvious criticism of potentially freedom-making projects – that the very people that they might help are very often unable to grasp their insights – is a bad one, at all; people like Roderick (or Socrates) are far too few.

Anyway, perhaps the author of this terrific resource might consider gathering Rick Roderick’s journal articles and make them available here? I’m not currently enrolled anywhere, and so cannot readily access journals.

By: Luke Scientiae

Luke Scientiae — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:43:58 +0000

Rick Roderick has mastered the art of communicating to the public concepts that are typically perceived as dry or irrelevant. That is very hard to do. It’s such a shame he’s no longer with us.

The one thing that Roderick doesn’t cover, however, is the philosophy of science, which is a shame. Luckily, the Teaching Company have a series out about that too by Jeffrey L. Kasser. I highly recommend them too.

By: Siavash

Siavash — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:14:34 +0000

Hey, great site. thx

By: avi

avi — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:54:59 +0000

Thanks for your reply. It made sense what you told me about the overlap of the series. On the other hand this makes me think that there is some ramdomness about your pick up. I was worried about something beyond that becouse in my own philosophical thinking i came up with the same simbol to express the central idea of my methaphisical tesis.

thanks again

By: ctrlshift

ctrlshift — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:35:07 +0000

I never really thought about it… I went through hundreds of themes and this one just “felt right”. I can make something up if it helps… there are three recorded series available and they all stand on their own but overlap in an important way (thematically connected). Clues to this can be found in the 1987 interview recorded three years before the first lecture series.

By: Avi

Avi — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:12:01 +0000

Why did you use a simbol of three spheres in an eclipse manner to represent Rick Roderick´s thinking? Its very important to me to khow how is Rick Roderick related to this sistesis?

By: Abu

Abu — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:37:00 +0000

dear Bubba you may just want to view Hamza Yusuf – “Changing the Tide” on YOUTUBE delivering spiritual counsel for Americans besieged by a war-mongering section of the elite.

By: michael

michael — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:49:27 +0000

Thanks for putting this up, great stuff to have access to, he explains things in such a great way and was obviously a great teacher. I am sorry to hear that he passed away in 2002,

By: mike

mike — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:54:18 +0000

Yes the Harvey lectures are good stuff, he’s been doing it for what like 30 years ? And i think you can find Zizek on you tube also good stuff in the vein of Baudrillard would you say ?

By: mike

mike — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:50:57 +0000

Not sure what that means, but i think he idolized Socrates and his methods and maybe even styled himself in that vein.

By: arendtian

arendtian — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:17:26 +0000

Found a copy online! This link should go straight to the pdf download:

http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=c9f31e9c-bc04-46a5-9bdd-930202f892d9

If that doesn’t work here is the site I found the link through:

http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=0df02276-d937-4d6a-b4e2-5936fc01923e

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:05:01 +0000

In Roderick’s lecture, “Socrates and the life of inquiry,” Roderick goes through historical comparisons between Greek political cultural and modern society’s. During the lecture, in regard to discovering human values, he says, “I’m trying to localize the question of what it means to be human.” I don’t know if it was due to the time restraints from the Teaching Company, but Roderick seems to be going through a Socratic/Negation dialectic within the lecture to determine human values within modern society. Has anyone else noticed his method within this lecture?

By: Bubba

Bubba — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:27:47 +0000

i hope to be like Prof. Roderick someday. i’m in this big cave we call Texas and im desperatley trying to find my way out in search of something Good.

By: Daniel Del Carlo

Daniel Del Carlo — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:14:25 +0000

I just stumbled upon Mr. Roderick a couple of days ago while searching for philosophy lectures on YouTube. I am stunned and elated by the content of his lectures. My first reaction is Slavoj Zizek with background. What I mean by that is that Zizek has fascinating insight to culture which is guided by a philosophical mind and the content of that analysis and observation is guided by what Mr. Roderick so clearly outlines.

For those that are interested in his Marxian comments I would suggest a series of lectures by David Harvey. He has an online course that one can follow called “Reading Marx’s Capital”.

Thanks all responsible for putting this out there.

By: garry mcfeeter

garry mcfeeter — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:56:26 +0000

I came across Rick Roderick whilst searching YouTube for interesting material. I’ve been transfixed for days now, but wondering where to locate a playlist or index- this website is it! Thank you- I’ll be a constant visitor for quite some time. I’d been wondering also about whether he was still with us- very sorry to hear he isn’t…

By: ctrlshift

ctrlshift — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:37:48 +0000

Yes and yes… Marshall Roderick is one of Rick’s sons and has made a post here in reply to Dan’s comment on October 11th 2010.

Another of Rick’s sons also made a comment on another Rick Roderick site in reply to a similar question, I have pasted it below for your convenience:

“Taylor Roderick
December 19, 2010 – 08:27
Marshall is his real son. There are 4 of us; Marshall, Travis, Taylor, and Max. We all live in Austin, Texas and most of us are students.

If you want to know about his personal life, here’s what I can offer, He was a single dad who loved his family deeply and missed his wife dearly. All of our friends loved him and our house was always a place of learning and debate and laughter. After his death, students of his kept showing up with food and gifts. There are no words suitable to describe the loss such a great mind, but I am very grateful that his words, and i suppose his spirit, remain very much alive. “