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.
16 -- Lyrical Ballads. Ballads. Lyric. (English 1a)
Intro (1a) class 15: How to write. More Blake -- The Chimney Sweeper
Pope and then Blake (14th episode of Intro to Lit)
Lit 1, episode 13: Rape of the Lock
Into to Lit, episode 12: Last class on Paradise Lost: The real unreality of our lives
Lit 1, part 11: Invocation to Book 7; Calliope and Orpheus; the Fall
Intro to Lit 10: Catching up on Milton
Milton on free will; ordering of the story; invocation and voice; light
Intro to Lit 8: Shelley and Milton's sardonic God; moral judgment
More on the sublime: Burke and Satan
Lit analysis 6: First class on Paradise Lost = Blake and Shelley...
Intro to Lit 5: Lear, Tate, Addison, Johnson, Freud
Intro, class 4: Testing in Lear; parallax; doubling; the Fool
Shakespeare and window characters
Intro to lit 2: Love personified from Surrey to Bishop
Introduction to Literary Studies - 1: Carroll, Jonson, Yeats
26. Milton: freedom and necessity, the tyrant's plea
19. Last film class: Peeping Tom and lots of psychoanalytic talk about scopohilia
25. Some more on Paradise Lost
24. First class on Milton
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