The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (The Great Courses)
by:
Rick Roderick (author)
Topics of lecture include: The Masters of Suspicion; Heigegger and the Rejection of Humanism; Habermas; Focault and the disappearance of the human; Derrida and the ends of man; Fatal Strategies.
Topics of lecture include: The Masters of Suspicion; Heigegger and the Rejection of Humanism; Habermas; Focault and the disappearance of the human; Derrida and the ends of man; Fatal Strategies.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B000V1S31G
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: The Teaching Company
Minutes: 1
Edition language: English
A good lecture series on some of the most influential philosophers of the modern era. The most interesting lecture was the last one, on Jean Baudrillard and "hyperrealism", a word meaning a simulation or fiction that becomes more real than what it was meant to emulate. A very scary thought, but one ...
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