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- [302 Heidegger and the Rejection of Humanism (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/302-heidegger-and-the-rejection-of-humanism-1993/) - Last updated: 28th August 2024 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 2: Heidegger and the Rejection of Humanism.avi Transcript: Our second lecture will be on Heidegger and the Rejection of Humanism. Many of you may know Heidegger by reputation and I think that it's always nice in a course in the self in the
- [308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/) - Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Baudrillard, a French social theorist. Actually that now is a misnomer since one of Baudrillard's theses is the disappearance of the
- [307 Derrida and the Ends of Man (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/307-derrida-and-the-ends-of-man-1993/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 7: Derrida and the Ends of Man.avi Transcript: In this lecture, ah, we are going to do something that from the viewpoint of many people is just simply outrageous. Ah, we are going to move from, ah, two figures who at least have
- [306 Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/306-foucault-and-the-disappearance-of-the-human-1993/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 6: Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human.avi Transcript: In our last, ah, lecture we discussed Habermas and I think that we left out at least one thing I need to begin with before I proceed with, ah, Foucault. And that's Habermas' view
- [305 Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/305-habermas-and-the-fragile-dignity-of-humanity-1993/) - Last updated: 18 June 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 5: Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity.avi Transcript: In this lecture I want to discuss one of the most important, ah, philosophers who is still working, ah, still alive. Ah, his work ranges over many areas in, ah, social theory, ah, it
- [304 Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/304-marcuse-and-one-dimensional-man-1993/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man.avi Transcript: Okay, this is the fourth lecture and we are going to pick things up a little bit here because we have a philosopher who I came in contact with in college through pamphlets and so this is
- [303 Sartre and the Roads to Freedom (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/303-sartre-and-the-roads-to-freedom-1993/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 3: Sartre and the Roads to Freedom (VHS).avi Transcript: In this third lecture I want to discuss one of the most famous intellectuals of the 20th Century, one of the few intellectuals to actually become a kind of international star, and that's Jean
- [301 Paul Ricoeur: The Masters of Suspicion (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/301-paul-ricoeur-the-masters-of-suspicion-1993/) - Last updated: 27th March 2023 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 1: The Masters of Suspicion.avi Transcript: The course that I am about to present: "Philosophy in the 20th Century - The Self Under Siege" has been a difficult course for me to develop over the years, and it's been a difficult subject matter
- [208 Nietzsche's Progeny (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/208-nietzsches-progeny-1991/) - Last updated: 3 October 2023 Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 8: Nietzsche's Progeny.mov Transcript: The last lecture on Nietzsche is quite a challenge since one of Nietzsche's arguments are there are no "lasts". There are no last interpretations, there are no last desperate moments, in fact it's a little remark about history
- [207 Nietzsche as Artist (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/207-nietzsche-as-artist-1991/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 7: Nietzsche as Artist.mov Transcript: In this lecture I'd like to discuss Nietzsche as artist, and also - I don't know if it's on what we might call the course syllabus, but - Nietzsche and his political uses, and the two are
- [206 Nietzsche: The Will to Power (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/206-nietzsche-the-will-to-power-1991/) - Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 6: The Will to Power.mov Transcript: I'd like to wrap up my remarks about self creation, self invention, and the challenge of The Eternal Recurrence by saying that we need to remember that this has to do... that this has to do with what I mentioned later
- [205 Nietzsche: The Eternal Recurrence (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/205-nietzsche-the-eternal-recurrence-1991/) - Last updated: 18 July 2018 (in progress: 34min) Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 5: The Eternal Recurrence.mov Transcript: This lecture is on a very troubling thesis of Nietzsche's: The Eternal Recurrence. Before I discuss Nietzsche's idea of The Eternal Recurrence I want to do a little bit of what I promised that
- [204 Nietzsche: The Death of God (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/204-nietzsche-the-death-of-god-1991/) - Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 4: The Death of God.mov Transcript: In this lecture I want to pick up on my discussion of "On the Genealogy of Morals" by Nietzsche and return our argument concerning the value of our values, the origins of our ethical judgements and
- [203 Nietzsche as Master of Suspicion and Immoralist (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/203-nietzsche-as-master-of-suspicion-and-immoralist-1991/) - Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 3: Nietzsche as Master of Suspicion and Immoralist.mov Transcript: Lecture three will be on a topic I richly enjoy, because I have in a way made suggestive remarks about Nietzsche, but I hope they have also been substantive at least in this
- [202 Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/202-nietzsche-on-truth-and-lie-1991/) - Last updated: 3 October 2023 Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 2: Nietzsche on Truth and Lie.mov Transcript: Lecture two will attempt to answer one of the paradoxes I raised in the first lecture - and this will be a specific form of it - and that's a rather famous charge in philosophy.
- [201 Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/201-nietzsche-as-myth-and-mythmaker-1991/) - Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 1: Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker.mov Transcript: The first lecture will be an introduction to Nietzsche that I have called "Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker". I'd like to say a little bit about his life because there is really not too much
- [108 Philosophy and Post-Modern Culture (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/108-philosophy-and-post-modern-culture-1990/) - Last updated: 3 October 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture.mov Transcript: A brief recap of the whole journey we have taken here. We tried to as it were retrace, sort of, the history of the accounts of human values given in the Western philosophical tradition. That account seemed
- [107 Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Spirit (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/107-kierkegaard-and-the-contemporary-spirit-1990/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 7: Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Spirit.mov Transcript: Okay, last time I may have dropped out of my West Texas mode for a moment and become a little too philosophical, so I am going to try to restate a few things from Nietzsche in
- [106 Nietzsche: Knowledge and Belief (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/106-nietzsche-knowledge-and-belief-1990/) - Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche – Knowledge and Belief.mov Transcript: Last time, in our last lecture, we were screaming about the United States government and its many failings. I want to make clear something, and it's... unfortunately in the current context... I must tell you that
- [105 Hegel and Modern Life (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/105-hegel-and-modern-life-1990/) - Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 5: Hegel and Modern Life.mov Transcript: Okay. In our last lecture, I ended the history of ethics in a way - what would be a usual introduction to an ethics course - by discussing Hegel's view of ethics with its... what one might
- [104 Mill on Liberty (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/104-mill-on-liberty-1990/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 4: Mill on Liberty.mov Transcript: Okay, we ended the last lecture by discussing the Utilitarian ethical theory which is that we should always act so as to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number, and Kant's ethical theory that we should
- [103 Kant and the Path to Enlightenment (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/103-kant-and-the-path-to-enlightenment-1990/) - Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 3: Kant and the Path to Enlightenment.mov Transcript: I have the daunting task of summarising 2000 years in two sentences, so I'll avoid it, and hope that you saw the last tape. Which was basically... the movement so far is to present something
- [102 Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/102-epicureans-stoics-skeptics-1990/) - Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 2: Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics.mov Transcript: Well, in the last lecture I tried to just make a few suggestive remarks in order to get us off the ground about what might be called "the Greek way of life", and different forms of human conduct
- [101 Socrates and the Life of Inquiry (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/101-socrates-and-the-life-of-inquiry-1990/) - Last updated: 26 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 1: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry.mov Transcript: A course in philosophy and human values may seem paradoxical because philosophy was that discipline, in our traditions - that's western traditions, western civilisation - that began with a search for unconditioned knowledge. Unconditioned by
- [interpretation: derrida's spurs, nietzsche's style](https://rickroderick.org/derridas-playful-spirit/) - From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 7: Derrida and the Ends of Man Transcript: …and ah, I think that is not at all a bad effect that Derrida has had. The fact that he has a sense of humour I don't hold against him. I wish more academics did. I think it's pedagogically useful not
- [Rick Roderick Interview (1987)](https://rickroderick.org/rick-roderick-interview/) - Last updated: 3 October 2023 INVITATION TO DIALOGUE - PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE Initiated by - ANNE BUTTIMER - TORSTEN HAGERSTRAND DR. RICK RODERICK - Department of Philosophy - DUKE UNIVERSITY Recorded at - THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - April 8, 1987 AB: Today we have the pleasure of meeting Doctor Rick Roderick, a
- [303 Sartre and the Roads to Freedom v2 (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/303-sartre-and-the-roads-to-freedom-v2-1993/) - Last updated: 27th March 2023 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 3: Sartre and the Roads to Freedom (CAS).mp3 [No video available for this take. Transcribed from the cassette version of the lecture.] Transcript: In this third lecture I would like to discuss a figure that is in one sense a paradigmatic intellectual of
- [marcuse's self help program](https://rickroderick.org/chainsaw-massacre/) - From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse And One-Dimensional Man Transcript: I didn't want these lectures to turn into some kind of funky... kind of Tony Robbins course in self development. Like "now I know who I really am" kind of crap. Because when we are through, we won't know! I don't know. If
- [blade runner and sartre's roads to freedom](https://rickroderick.org/fight-to-feel-anything/) - From: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 8: Nietzsche's Progeny Transcript: You know, how many novels begin with sentences describing the sky and the landscape. There are so many. It’s a standard novelistic beginning. Gibson begins his novel Neuromancer with the following sentence, and I consider it the best first sentence in 20th century
- [new festivals, new games, new myths](https://rickroderick.org/nietzsche-on-nihilism/) - From: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 1: Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker Transcript: ...again, this word "Nihilism" I'll... I'll say a bit more about. In a context where the threat was Nihilism. A culture where there was no fabric from which to construct meaning. Now, Nihilism, in a certain way won't be used
- [on grading, knowledge and power](https://rickroderick.org/nietzsches-happy-face/) - From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche - Knowledge and Belief Transcript: First, what's supposed to be so scandalous about Nietzsche. Nietzsche is supposed to hold the scandalous view that knowledge is a form of power. Now that is scandalous because knowledge is knowledge. It's objective. You know, like journalism. And it would
- [kafka's commodified sunday stroll](https://rickroderick.org/kafkas-sunday-stroll/) - From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche - Knowledge and Belief Transcript: ...so that the process of a world becoming bureaucratically more complex and more intrusive at the level of the state is a world phenomenon. It's not localisable. The process of an economy becoming ever more diverse - commodifying ever more sections
- [freud: civilisation and its discontents](https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-is-sparta/) - From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: Freud compares the conscious mind, in the book I have - I am talking about now, he compares the conscious mind to a garrison. A captured, tiny garrison in an immense city. The city of Rome. With all its layers of history.
- [mass culture is enlightenment in reverse gear](https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-and-despair/) - From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: The goal of a mass telecommunication culture is psychoanalysis in reverse. It's that the little, last remaining parts of that garrison become unconscious. It's precisely to reverse that process of enlightenment. Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse gear. Precisely to wipe out
- [react, follow, or replicate](https://rickroderick.org/psychoanalysis-in-reverse/) - From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: ...but in a culture so overloaded, where we already suspect - if we don't know - that it's goal is psychoanalysis in reverse: to make the parts of us that think into ones that don't; just react, follow, or replicate. One thing
- [masters of suspicion: marx, nietzsche, freud](https://rickroderick.org/paul-ricoeurs-masters-of-suspicion/) - From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 1: The Masters of Suspicion Transcript: After these three are through with our intellectual culture: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, no-one can believe. No-one. It's like childhood's end for our culture. You follow me. It's childhood's end. You know how you can believe something when you are a child... and
- [marcuse: freedom, happiness, creativity](https://rickroderick.org/marcuses-optimism/) - From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man Transcript: ...now, that's the method within which Marcuse criticises capitalist society. Not with external norms drawn from some utopian situation, but by its own terms, with its own terms. I also think that's not only a good strategy as a style of critique, but
- [orwell's resistance and human faces](https://rickroderick.org/orwell-was-a-pie-eyed-optimist/) - From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 5: Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity Transcript: I mean, in a certain way, one of the characteristics of what the self is, and one of the reasons it's under siege, is we are interpretative beings. And now, by the late 20th century, we are in a situation
- [superman's knowledge crystals](https://rickroderick.org/supermans-knowledge-crystals/) - From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 1: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry Transcript: ...and then that makes knowing yourself a crucially important part of knowledge. Now I'll make this as simple as I can. I love to use references to movies, I mean not many of us read any more, but a lot
- [is evolution comforting?](https://rickroderick.org/is-evolution-comforting/) - From: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition (1991) Lecture 1: Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker Transcript: This is kind of a modern myth I am about to spell out for you. In fact I may not read it, I may just gloss it. It's a modern myth that I'd like to spell out for you that
- [drivers' license identitiy crisis](https://rickroderick.org/drivers-license-identitiy-crisis/) - From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 1: The Masters of Suspicion Transcript: ...and I would like to argue in a strong sense that every one of us has some kind of theory of what we are as a person. Now, by that I don't mean a really highly developed theory like in quantum mechanics or
- [ignorance and despair as cultural phenomena](https://rickroderick.org/basket-weaving/) - From: Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 1: The Masters of Suspicion Transcript: ...and I don't want to go off in this first lecture on a long, ah, exegetical set of remarks on this new phrase, which I am afraid is going to be just a part of pop psychology: "the politics of meaning". I don't
- [300 Guide: The Self Under Siege (1993)](https://rickroderick.org/300-guide-the-self-under-siege-1993/) - The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the 20th Century (1993) Rick Roderick, Ph. D. Lecture One: The Masters of Suspicion Current professional philosophy is "deflationary" in that it gives no answers to our larger questions, in particular our questions concerning our selves, our projects, our questions concerning our own selves, our projects, our place in
- [200 Guide: Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991)](https://rickroderick.org/200-guide-nietzsche-and-the-postmodern-condition-1991/) - Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (1991) Rick Roderick, Ph. D. Lecture One: Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker Things to know about Nietzsche The is a difference between Nietzsche's text and his life, which was relatively uneventful. Nietzsche was not gay, and had maybe one sexual encounter ever. Nietzsche is the last important thinker of the
- [100 Guide: Philosophy and Human Values (1990)](https://rickroderick.org/100-guide-philosophy-and-human-values-1990/) - Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Rick Roderick, Ph. D. Lecture One: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry The trial and death of Socrates inaugurated the Western philosophical tradition. Investigation turned from movement of stars and composition of the earth toward human matters by separating scientific from philosophic discourse. Dialogic form posits dialogue as essential to

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- [The Seasons of Rick Roderick (Thomas Zigal)](https://rickroderick.org/the-seasons-of-rick-roderick-thomas-zigal/) - From Thomas Zigal: "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 tragedies, and
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- [In Memorium (Max Roderick)](https://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/) - What follows is an essay by Rick's son, Max Roderick about Rick's legacy as a teacher and a father. It answers many of the questions that come up in the comments from time to time, and plenty that don't. Download PDF Version Part 1: The Claim of the Dead If I could only share one

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