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.
Selfhood in 17th century poetry: Some Donne
Keats' Odes to Psyche and to a Nightingale
Last class on The Triumph of Life
Second Class on The Triumph of Life
Adonais and the opening of The Triumph of Life
The Fall of Hyperion and To Autumn
Keats and Hyperion: the young poet
LR. First Class on Keats: Eve of St. Agnes
Last class on Prometheus Unbound
Resistance and knuckling under
More on Mont Blanc and Prometheus Unbound
"The Two Spirits: An Allegory", Mont Blanc and an Introduction to Prometheus Unbound
Seeing souls in Frankenstein
Frankenstein, again, Prometheus, and Satan
10. Frankenstein via Byron and The Witch of Atlas
The Witch of Atlas: Phosphor reading by her own light
Don Juan, Canto 5
LR 7: Don Juan Cantos 3-4
LR 6: Don Juan Canto 2: Juan and the Narrator
Later Romantix 5: First Class on Don Juan
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