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Course Outlines and Lecture Notes
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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- Damian Seizov August 1, 2018 at 11:03 pm on 107 Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Spirit (1990)Dear Dr Roderick, you are an amazing human being. Thank you for your work.
- Christopher Castley July 20, 2018 at 4:36 pm on AboutI was a student at Duke University and got to have Rick as my teacher in an Intro to Logic course taught during the summer term, not even a year before he was shunned by Duke and moved to UT Austin. During that summer term, he wore the same black t-shirt of the rap group Public Enemy's biggest album, "Fear of a Black Planet" every day, and I do remember him wearing a blazer over it, just to give him more maturity and make him look more professorial. He was sooo much bigger than life, forever smoking out the open window and venting to us about how the crypto-Klansmen of the Duke faculty had denied him tenure because he didn't fit their Harvard Yahd-wanna-be image to any degree, despite his enormous magnetism and genuinely singular knowledge of the subject matter. At the beginning of the logic course he made a point of telling us that, while logic was somewhat interesting and useful for computer programming and probably artificial intelligence, it played virtually no role in human affairs because the overwhelming majority of people were "pre-biased Nazis" who merely back-rationalized all their various proclivities and petty xenophobias. On more than one occasion he would stick his head out the window and yell "FUCK YOU, TOO" at the top of his lungs out to the quad, at the rest of the campus and, most importantly, the pretentious, overconceited faculty who had rejected him because they placed bland superficial diversity over real and radical diversity of opinion and perspective. And, of course, Rick wouldn't be the first real person of superior substance that Duke would reject -- they rejected everyone who didn't fit their crypto-conservative, strictly-Northern-Europeanist, fetish. In time they would also reject people like Henry "Skip" Gates and David Castriota, both of whom were just powerhouse professors who absolutely taught their classes with an absolute "redpill" tendency. Maybe someone should make a movie about Rick Roderick, and call it "It Came From West Texas". Or something like that.
- weisskopf July 15, 2018 at 10:23 am on 305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)THANK YOU !! Greetings from Switzerland
- David July 15, 2018 at 6:41 am on 308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993)Years later (after watching these lectures, and reading Baudrillard and Foucault because of them), I have to agree with you. Or at least share the sentiment. These books have a very particular impact on young susceptible students. It is always the same demographic. There is the definite occasional truth to the lush observations, but the world isn't "disappearing." However, spending too much time in your apartment reading philosophy books might convince you that it is, and make you "disappear." Irony in irony, huh?
- Max Roderick July 6, 2018 at 10:35 am on LinksHi to whoever is running and curating this website! I want to thank you sincerely for all the work you've done maintaining Rick's legacy. I don't know that a project like this is something my brothers or I would ever have gotten around to, and the transcriptions of my father's lectures especially have been a great help to me while writing an essay about him over the past few months. If it isn't too much trouble I'd love to hear from you by email, hopefully to hear about your connection with Rick, but on a more personal level I'd like to be able to thank you by name in the essay. I'll speak to my publisher about possibly making it available on this website, if that's something you'd be interested in too. best regards, Max Roderick
- Max Roderick July 6, 2018 at 10:17 am on 305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)Hey Lenore, I can tell you Rick was a big supporter long before Bernie even considered running for president, and my brothers and I certainly put our votes in for Bernie. Obviously I can't speak for my father, but I would argue that his response to the current state of politics wouldn't consider the modern idea of political correctness as a leftist issue. I personally believe what we call the left, in the democratic party, is dominated by conservative ideology, and it is up to people on the actual left to realize their party is no longer concerned with their ideology, and start figuring things out from there. hope your research is going well, I'd love to visit Germany myself some day Max
- Lenore June 17, 2018 at 3:21 am on 305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)Chris, Glad you're there! Yes, for US a leftist. For Europeans, for example, a competent observer of society. He woukd have been a Bernie supporter, don't you think? His unbridled down-home Southern straightforwardness is refreshing! I'm in Germany right now doing research on my Habermas-based thesis (communicative action). Btw, Monday is Habermas' birthday. I think RR will be at his party in spirit. Thanks again for your response.
- ctrlshift June 8, 2018 at 2:27 pm on 305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)Hi Lenore, I wonder about this too. He's an interesting case because he is pretty much as left leaning as it gets, especially with regard to sympathy for the plight of the disadvantaged, however he was no fan of political correctness. Chris
- TJ June 8, 2018 at 5:56 am on 206 Nietzsche: The Will to Power (1991)If Roderick had survived, he would have had the company of other great minds: Prof. Michael Parenti, Prof. Richard Wolff, Prof. Yanis Varoufakis, Prof. Mark Blyth, Chris Hedges, Amy Goodman at Democracy Now, et al... It would have been interesting to see Gore Vidal and Rick discuss the utter hypocrisy of our times...
- Lenore June 7, 2018 at 1:55 pm on 305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)Is anyone still there now after 8 years?! Just wanted others' thoughts on the relevance of Rick Roderick's highlighted Habermasian points and his (RR's) assessment of late 20th century society. He's just phenominal. What a loss that we don't have him here to listen to his take on our world in 2018. He'd be so spot on, but certainly sad.
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