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• Course Outlines and Lecture Notes

  • 100 Philosophy and Human Values (1990)
  • 200 Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991)
  • 300 The Self Under Siege (1993)

• 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)

• Additional Information

  • Rick Roderick Interview (1987)
• • Cole Holloway

    May 8, 2026 at 7:12 am

    on About

    Just ordered. Rick's work has been a massive influence on me in the past 5 years. As a fellow west Texan, it feels like he was a professor who's class I had just missed. Thank you so much for your work on his life, can't wait to read about such
  • Tom Zigal

    May 1, 2026 at 1:04 am

    on The Seasons of Rick Roderick (Thomas Zigal)

    Thank you very much! I hope Rick's biographical story resonates with you.
  • ctrlshift

    April 30, 2026 at 12:22 am

    on The Seasons of Rick Roderick (Thomas Zigal)

    Comments were accidentally closed for this page, sorry about that. Comments are now open, and the commenting system has been overhauled. Good luck with the book Thomas, I am a slow reader but enjoying it so far.
  • ctrlshift

    April 21, 2026 at 4:45 pm

    on About

    Thanks for sharing this Thomas. I just ordered my copy from https://tcupress.tcu.edu/9780875659565/ Looking forward to reading!
  • Thomas Zigal

    April 21, 2026 at 7:05 am

    on About

    TCU Press has just published my memoir about my 30-year friendship with Rick. To tell his story, I include excerpts from his unfinished autobiography. The book is titled “The Seasons of Rick Roderick,” and it will give you a sense of how Rick grew up in West Texas, his personal

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