Silence and Speech
This week, I’d like to talk about a chant–a little ear-worm, if you will–that has been embedded in my mind for decades. It’s an unpleasant puzzle why, when I’ve forgotten other arguably more useful and less damaging things, somehow I … Continue reading →
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Naming the unknown –– Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler
What we have here is The Ambiguous Case of Antigone, where she is “unintelligible and unthinkable”. So… why do people even bother trying to understand her? Here’s why I think so many people have attempted to define and classify Antigone … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim
Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
I believe you but you don’t know what you’re saying? — Gorgias by Plato
I am confused by a very simple point in Plato’s Gorgias. If Gorgias claims that what oratory is is simply being able to persuade a person or crowd without knowledge that he is knowledgable in something he actually isn’t, then what does … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Kant, “Conjectural Beginning of Human History”
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Christina Hendricks for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Repetition and Sisyphus
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than … Continue reading →
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Podcast: Beowulf and On the Genealogy of Morals
Discussion with Jill Fellows and Kevin McNeilly
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Audio of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme