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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality

Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in lecture, Remake/Remodel, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with C18th, France, philosophy, Rousseau, social contract, The Enlightenment

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in Christina Hendricks, lecture, Monster in the Mirror, Remake/Remodel, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with C17th, England, Hobbes, philosophy, politics

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 →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Ambiguity, Anomaly, Antigone, Antigone's Claim, Butler, Classification, Identification, Knowledge, philosophy, Sophocles

Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim

Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim

Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in Jill Fellows, lecture, Remake/Remodel, video | Tagged with Antigone, Butler, gender, Hegel, Lacan, norms, philosophy, sex

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 →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Knowledge, Persuasion, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, Speeches

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 →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb3-2013 | Tagged with Camus, literature, philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Sisyphus

Podcast: Beowulf and On the Genealogy of Morals

Podcast: Beowulf and On the Genealogy of Morals

Discussion with Jill Fellows and Kevin McNeilly

Posted in audio, Jill Fellows, Kevin McNeilly, Monster in the Mirror, podcast | Tagged with Beowulf, C19th, Germany, Nietzsche, philosophy, poetry, violence

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Audio of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme

Posted in audio, Jill Fellows, lecture, Monster in the Mirror | Tagged with Austria, C20th, Freud, philosophy, psychoanalysis

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

Audio of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme

Posted in audio, Jill Fellows, lecture, Monster in the Mirror | Tagged with C19th, Germany, Nietzsche, Nihilism, philosophy, value

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace

Powerpoint of lecture by Renisa Mawani for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme

Posted in Explorations and Encounters, lecture, powerpoint, Renisa Mawani | Tagged with C18th, Germany, Kant, peace, philosophy

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