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Lecture List
- 101 Socrates and the Life of Inquiry (1990)
- 102 Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics (1990)
- 103 Kant and the Path to Enlightenment (1990)
- 104 Mill on Liberty (1990)
- 105 Hegel and Modern Life (1990)
- 106 Nietzsche: Knowledge and Belief (1990)
- 107 Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Spirit (1990)
- 108 Philosophy and Post-Modern Culture (1990)
- 201 Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker (1991)
- 202 Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (1991)
- 203 Nietzsche as Master of Suspicion and Immoralist (1991)
- 204 Nietzsche: The Death of God (1991)
- 205 Nietzsche: The Eternal Recurrence (1991)
- 206 Nietzsche: The Will to Power (1991)
- 207 Nietzsche as Artist (1991)
- 208 Nietzsche’s Progeny (1991)
- 301 Paul Ricoeur: The Masters of Suspicion (1993)
- 302 Heidegger and the Rejection of Humanism (1993)
- 303 Sartre and the Roads to Freedom (1993)
- 303 Sartre and the Roads to Freedom v2 (1993)
- 304 Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man (1993)
- 305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)
- 306 Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human (1993)
- 307 Derrida and the Ends of Man (1993)
- 308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993)
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- Merrill or John J Miller October 18, 2018 at 10:20 am on AboutHey I just discovered I'd already left a comment some time ago. Well I guess he is easily worth admiring twice.
- Merrill or John J Miller October 18, 2018 at 10:14 am on AboutI admire Rick Roderick as one of the most brilliant minds of our time or any time in human history. To think he was to be found in West Texas just shows that gemstones are formed in unlikely and barren looking places. I only wish I had known him personally as a student or as a friend. I don't think I've ever come across a wiser or more compassionate intellect in my 65 years on this strange planet. This world is so much poorer for his passing. RIP Rick.
- Jay October 15, 2018 at 2:02 pm on AboutWhat an American treasure! absolutely dumbfounded he is not famous. I am sharing this site with anyone who likes rediscover themselves. His lectures should be shared and reposted everywhere
- Sean October 11, 2018 at 9:04 pm on AboutNot sure who the currator is here, but I've poached a bit of this site to make Facebook page of the same intention. Hopefully that's ok. Rick Roderick was, and is, such a boss.
- Greg Gasiorowski October 7, 2018 at 12:08 am on 201 Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker (1991)What Thirtysomething show was he talking about? I'm 55 & that threw me for a loop.
- Greg Gasiorowski October 6, 2018 at 10:56 pm on 107 Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Spirit (1990)He sadly hasn't been around to hear it for some time...
- Merrill or John J Miller October 3, 2018 at 10:44 pm on LinksRick Roderick, while I never knew or met him is one of the best friends I've ever had. His lectures have been one of the reasons I know I'm not crazy but this full on Postmodern world is. I wonder what Mr. Roderick would have had to say about the year 2018 with Donald Duck (er I mean Trump) as Emperor? I think he might have thought reincarnation was a reality and that Ronald Reagan was back for another go at things. Much of what he was seeing as a danger has come true with a vengeance and long before most anyone else was even thinking about it. Being old and out of sorts due to an inability to find anything of value in my culture, RR's lectures have been one of my only touchstones for sanity. (Bless you whoever has put them online) Anyway I miss him very much. The world is just a little colder and less sane without him. He died too soon for me but just in time to avoid seeing the last of Democracy circle and go down the drain.
- Merrill or John J Miller October 3, 2018 at 3:41 pm on In MemoriumRick was an amazing human being. Tough as nails but truly compassionate. He did his philosophy as a real life task. He faced the best and worst in us and in our culture and faced directly the realization that we and culture are mostly the worst. I really appreciate his honesty and I felt less alone in this insane culture because of his lectures. I knew I wasn't crazy because I could tell he wasn't crazy. He will surely be missed and his predictions of the postmodern world we were heading into have come true with an ugly vengeance. Happy Trails Rick wherever you are.
- Ian Maza September 25, 2018 at 9:52 am on 308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993)Into tribes * The way the real fragments into images seems to be the same problem people like zizek, chomsky, and Peterson worry about.
- Ian Maza September 25, 2018 at 9:49 am on 308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993)I completely disagree. The disappearance of the real can be seen in our youth losing the power of their memory and lose of social skills due to the new media we consume. The blurring of them lines between traditional categories and I to tribes that we elect to be part of happens to be a popular thought with identity marketers like Seth Godin. There are more real life examples to fill into the post moderns.
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