I am team-teaching a class on Wittgenstein this term. The person I team-teach with, a philosopher, is too careful about how to put things to want the class podcast. The class largely consists of us disagreeing. He thinks (like lots of Anglo-American philosophers) that Wittgenstein was sloppy and couldn't make his case in a systematic and well-organized way. I defend Wittgenstein, and I usually do it in the spineless liberal way that I was brought up in: "Even accepting everything you say..." after which I try to say that LW is still great. There may be a little of that in this, but in any case, in class the other day, I found myself talking non-stop for a bit, defending my Wittgenstein against his idea of Wittgenstein as a brilliant failure, and more generally against the idea of some systematized exposition of Wittgenstein, even Cavell's. I should say that in calling him my LW I am also very much indebted to a teacher of mine's LW, as you'll hear if you listen. Anyhow, this short post is the non-stop portion of the class.
18. Peeping Tom, sort of but mainly Freud on instincts, pleasure, unpleasure, and scopophilia
23. Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" (briefly) and then "The Unfortunate Lover"
18. Vertigo and Freudian repetition
22. Marvell - The Garden
21. Marvell: Damon the Mower and The Garden
16. Other worlds and other minds in Source Code and Groundhog Day
20. Last class on Herbert: The Forerunners; The Pulley
19. George Herbert: Jordan (I), The Flower, Easter Wings, etc.
15. Source Code
14. Groundhog Day
18. First class on George Herbert
13. Skepticism and Zeno's paradoxes, again
17. 17th century poetry: a class on Robert Herrick
16. 17th c poetry, mainly Jonson's Cary-Morrison Ode
12. Film and Philosophy: Akerman's La Captive
11. Film and Philosophy
15, 17th Century Poetry: Ben Jonson, mainly "The Hourglass"
14. 17th C Poetry: Ben Jonson's songs
10. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley and Beckett's
13. 17th C Poetry: Trinity and then Ben Jonson
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