Like, WOW. Cant thank you enough for putting this together. I download Ricks’ stuff on a torrent site years ago, and its wonderful to have all his lectures in one place, as a great testament, to a great teacher. Thanks.

I’m so inspired by this site, that I’m thinking of doing something similar. Did you need to ask permission from the teaching company? What the deal regarding copyright?

If you could give me some pointers, that’d be great.

As a recently minted academic in the humanities – i.e. the equivalent of a new trained coal miner in 1980s Britain – I have taken great heart from listening and learning from Rick. The most immediate lesson that so many academics could take is that making your class accessible and making your students laugh does not necessarily mean you are wasting time on frivolity.

Like any great teacher, Rick leaves you wondering what he might have thought on all sorts of issues:

What would he say about the fact that the Iraq War – the enemy having irritatingly disappeared – had to be replayed so the footage could be gathered in HD this time?

How would he have reacted to the further rationalisation of the higher education sector, and the popularisation of anti-intellectualism in the US? Sarah Palin? His namesake Perry? His namesake Santorum?

Most importantly, how would he work a reference to Jersey Shore into an elucidation of Sartrean bad faith?

I’m am very grateful for these videos. Love this material!

Thanks.

The digitalising & uploading of the Rick lectures is a great achievement, the sort of philanthropic act that Rick was all about.

Just a comment for the Administrator: there’s a transcription error made twice: it’s not ‘Bloke’ but ‘Bloch’, Ernst Bloch. They’re either side (4 paras. or so) of the great Texo-Marxism comment.

I’m looking forward so much to learning from the lectures. From what I’ve seen there was a humanity about Rick that is also in Marx’s Paris manuscripts. Rick spoke about travelling thru the South & Mid West off the interstates, Marx wrote about love when he was in Paris. Rick may not have been talking about Paris, Texas but they were talking about the same thing. How beautiful the world is but how necessary it is to rid it of as much misery as we can. And that is why both men – and us too – saw the need to struggle, even when it gets so damn hard. As Ernst Bloch demanded, never give up hope.

Thanks again for all the hard work that so many of you must have done. Vamos!

Thanks for this great site!

But to quote the 11th thesis from Fourier by Marx

“Fourier” should be replaced by “Feuerbach” (German Philosopher)

And thanks a lot for these wonderful lectures!!!