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Here, Derrida describes the breakthrough experience underlying two of the essays in his most famous work, "Of Grammatology" (1967) - this...
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Here, Derrida describes the breakthrough experience underlying two of the essays in his most famous work, "Of Grammatology" (1967) - this text, which offers key deconstructive critiques of speech vs. writing, Rousseau/Levi-Strauss on 'Nature, Culture, Writing,' offered an "interpretive edge, a lever" that Derrida felt he did not actually create himself - he is thus "responsible" and "not responsible" for what he wrote "as though (he was transcribing) something that had imposed itself upon (him)"... he does not want to ascribe a "religious sensibility" to this feeling, but clearly believed that "something had taken hold of (him) that was powerful, a lever for interpretation, for reading the (Western philosophical) tradition, (allowing) him to formalize and economically decipher that which is dominant in our culture"...
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Based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand Nicholi, author of "The Question of God," this 2004 series illustrates the lives a...
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Based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand Nicholi, author of "The Question of God," this 2004 series illustrates the lives and insights of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), a life-long critic of religious belief, and C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), a celebrated Oxford don, literary critic, and perhaps this century's most influential and popular proponent of faith based on reason. The series focuses upon the perennial questions: What is happiness? How do we find meaning and purpose in our lives? How do we reconcile conflicting claims of love and sexuality? These excerpts focus on this: How do we cope with the problem of suffering and the inevitability of death? [1/6] A panel discussion (led by Nicholi) with atheists, agnostics, and theists regarding the origins of morality - is morality God-given or part of our evolutionary heritage? For Freud, "cultural experience" and "expediency" are the sources, while for Lewis it is a "discoverable," transcendent law authored by God...
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2/6: A continuation of the panel discussion; archival footage of Freud (narrated by his daughter Anna) in the last decade of his life (the 1930s) w...
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2/6: A continuation of the panel discussion; archival footage of Freud (narrated by his daughter Anna) in the last decade of his life (the 1930s) when he was terminally ill with cancer - this led him to examine the psychology of death once again, focusing on the wish not to die (as he later states: "the unconscious does not believe in its own death - it behaves as if it were immortal") as well as the growing scourge of Nazi anti-Semitism - in 1934 he began to write one of his last works: "Moses and Monotheism" arguing that Moses was actually Egyptian, and his introduction of monotheism led his followers to murder him...
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3/6: The guilt of killing Moses actually created Judaism however, this guilt would be assuaged only by the later sacrifice of Jesus and the introd...
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3/6: The guilt of killing Moses actually created Judaism however, this guilt would be assuaged only by the later sacrifice of Jesus and the introduction of Christianity which the Jews rejected... thus, for Freud, the world repays Judaism with eternal hatred - following the Nazi 'anschluss' of Austria in 1938, Freud left for England... Freud, an atheist and now an exile, interpreted his own impending death in terms of psychoanalytic theory - the result was the completion of "Moses and Monotheism" which outraged both Jews and Christians... Freud died in 1939 from a physician-assisted overdose of morphine "not asking for consolation... (embodying) a rebellious defiance and conqueror's stance"...
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4/6: By the 1950s Oxford's C.S. Lewis became the most popular spokesperson for Christianity in the English-speaking world... in 1956, Lewis marrie...
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4/6: By the 1950s Oxford's C.S. Lewis became the most popular spokesperson for Christianity in the English-speaking world... in 1956, Lewis married Joy Davidson Gresham, a Marxist, atheist, poet/writer... at the time of the marriage, it was known that Joy was suffering from bone cancer, though it later went into remission... however, in 1960 the cancer returned and Joy died... Lewis mourning resulted in his 1960 book, "A Grief Observed," which describes his experience of bereavement in such a raw and personal fashion that Lewis originally released it under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk to keep readers from associating the work with him ... the book was "a portrait of grief and a struggle with his own faith"... Lewis lashes out at God (ala Job) with the seemingly unsolvable question: how can such great anguish have been permitted?
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Could you tell me where I might be able to find the rest of McMullen's Ghost Dance?
I have theory of my own, no-one dares to give their opinion about it. I so wish that some day I could find someone like him to estimate it...