The Social Contract

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年12月19日
In this episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract and ask a foundational question of political philosophy – by what authority does a government govern? “Man was born free and he is everywhere in chains”. So begins Jean Jacques Rousseau’s great work on the Social Contract. Rousseau was trying to understand why a man would give up his natural freedoms and bind himself to the rule of a prince or a government. But the idea of the social contract - that political authority is held through a contract with those to be ruled - began before Rousseau with the work of John Locke, Hugo Grotius and even Plato. We explore how an idea that burgeoned among the 17th century upheavals of the English civil war and then withered in the face of modern capitalist society still influences our attitude to government today. With Melissa Lane, Senior University Lecturer in History at Cambridge University; Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London; Karen O’Brien, Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick http://www.bbc.co.uk.

Arts One (12/2012 - 09/2013): "Monster in the Mirror" & "Explorations and Encounters" (U of British Columbia)

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source: Arts One Open     12年12月11日

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1:37:23
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality 1:43:39
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1:42:08
T S Eliot, The Waste Land 1:50:28
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and Franz Kafka, "The Metamorphosis" 1:23:39
Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández, Selected Stories 1:40:56
J M Coetzee, Foe 1:36:33
Neil Jordan, The Crying Game 1:00:35
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen 1:34:07
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1:37:23
Arts One Introduction: Jill Fellows 7:27
Arts One Introduction: Kevin McNeilly 12:18
Arts One Introduction: Renisa Mawani 11:17
Arts One Introduction: Christina Hendricks 12:01
Arts One Introduction: Robert Crawford 10:58
Arts One Introduction: Gavin Paul 13:26
Arts One Introduction: Jon Beasley-Murray 13:03

Arts One (09/2013 - 04/2014): "Remake/Remodel" (U of British Columbia)

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source: Arts One Open     2013年9月17日

Immanuel Kant, "Conjectural Beginning of Human History" 48:40
Genesis 1:04:02
Remake/Remodel Intro: Robert Crawford 26:24
Remake/Remodel Intro: Jill Fellows 15:25
Remake/Remodel Intro: Jon Beasley-Murray 20:02
Plato, Gorgias 1:25:25
Sophocles, Antigone 1:42:15
Judith Butler, Antigone's Claim 1:33:59
Hobbes, Leviathan 1:43:48
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality 1:40:07
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World 1:37:17
Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe, and Derek Walcott, King Christophe 1:37:59
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past 1:43:15
Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria 1:23:27
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks 1:36:49
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction 1:39:48
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man 1:29:34
Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul 1:37:03
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness 1:35:00
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1:37:53
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart 1:38:07
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex 1:32:39
Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now 1:31:15

Arts One (09/2014-04/2015): "Repetition Compulsion" (U of British Columbia)

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source: Arts One Open    2014年9月29日

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad 1:41:36
Plato's Republic, Politics and Ethics 1:38:45
Shakespeare, The Tempest: "Upstart Crew" 1:39:13
Hobbes, Leviathan: "In the midst of life we are in death" 1:31:45
Hobbes, Leviathan (lecture 2, 2014) 1:35:17
Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality 1:40:45
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past 1:43:06
Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul 1:38:21
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents 1:35:40
Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (lecture) 41:44
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (March 2015) 1:02:42
Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper 1:43:03
Arthur Miller, The Crucible 1:36:48
McNeilly Watchmen Lecture March 2015 1:33:32

Brandon Konoval: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (17/01/2013)

source: Arts One Open     2013年1月17日
Lecture by Brandon Konoval for the "Explorations and Encounters" theme. For more, see http://artsone-digital.arts.ubc.ca/20....
For a version of this video with slides, go to http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.c....

Robert Crawford: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (07/11/2013)

source: Arts One Open     2013年11月7日
Lecture by Robert Crawford for the "Remake/Remodel" theme. For more, see http://artsone-digital.arts.ubc.ca/je....

Robert Crawford: Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality (11/28/2014)

source: Arts One Open     2014年11月28日
This is a lecture for Arts One at the University of British Columbia. In this lecture Robert Crawford (http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/rober...) explains Rousseau's view of the Enlightenment in France, Rousseau's and Hobbes' view of liberty and the state, the social contract in Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, and Rousseau's view that "nascent society" was the best period for humans.
License for this video: CC-BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Information on Arts One and Arts One Open:
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Christina Hendricks: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (01/27/2015)

source: Arts One Open     2015年1月27日
Christina Hendricks begins this lecture by giving some background in a few Freudian ideas and arguments that may help in making sense of the text, and then talks about connections between this text, Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Plato's Republic, and Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, while giving her reading of some of the main points of Freud's arguments. She ends with a quick question about the choice to start the book with a discussion of the "oceanic feeling" only to seemingly drop it, and then argues that we can see it reappear as a theme, in a way, in the end of the book.
For more information about this lecture, along with a link to the slides (which you can't see in this video), and a link to the video with slides, please see the Arts One Open site: http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/freud...
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World Views and Values by Gregory B. Sadler

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source: Gregory B. Sadler     上次更新日期：2015年4月27日
Lecture videos created for my online World Views and Values class, currently taught in a 10-week (9 thinker/text) version for Marist College, and coming this summer in a 12-week (12 thinker/text) version for Oplerno.
In the current class, we cover the following 9 philosophers: Plato, Epictetus, Boethius, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Marx, King. We'll be adding 3 additional thinkers in the expanded class: Aristotle, Freud, and Arendt.

Plato, Republic (lecture 1) 18:52
Plato, Republic (lecture 2) 26:07
Plato, Republic (lecture 3) 26:48
Plato, Republic (lecture 4) 26:34
Plato, Republic (lecture 5) 22:24
Plato, Republic (lecture 6) 34:48
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 1) 26:42
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 2) 28:26
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 3) 29:33
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 4) 33:31
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 5) 31:11
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 1) 25:39
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 2) 26:05
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 3) 32:13
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 4) 27:25
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 5) 22:45
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 6) 39:53
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 1) 33:01
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 2) 30:20
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 3) 30:43
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 4) 24:41
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 5) 27:54
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 6) 31:31
Hobbes, Leviathan (lecture 1) 30:29
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 2) 35:34
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 3) 28:12
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 4) 23:36
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 5) 20:47
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 6) 24:19
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 1) 30:30
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 2) 33:08
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 3) 26:25
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 4) 24:36
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 5) 46:03
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 6) 37:44
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 1) 26:29
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 2) 25:07
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 3) 25:36
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 4) 34:16
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 5) 35:40
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 6) 23:45
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 1) 34:49
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 2) 39:22
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 3) 22:51
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 4) 24:05
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 5) 31:16
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 6) 25:21
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 1) 32:24
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 2) 22:11
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 3) 32:16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 4) 30:31
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 5) 22:22

Catherine Malabou. The Deconstruction of Biopolitics. 2012

source: European Graduate School    2012年12月21日
http://www.egs.edu/ Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about Foucault's deconstruction of biopolitics. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses Hobbe's Leviathan model of sovereignty, biopolitics as disciplinary power, the relationship between biology and politics, Agamben's critique of Foucault and the function of symbolism in psychoanalysis in relationship to Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Aristotle, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan focusing on non-sovereign power, biopower, the individual body, will, the notion of organism, the structure of kingship, power relations, intentionality, resistance, self-subjugation, transgression and sexuality. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Catherine Malabou.

Catherine Malabou, Ph.D., born in 1959, was a student at the École normal supérieure (ENS) and Sorbonne University in France. She wrote her dissertation on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel under the direction of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, completing it in 1994. The thesis was published in 1996 under the title L'Avenir de Hegel, plasticité, temporalité, dialectique (The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic). Catherine Malabou has taught at Nanterre University in Paris, the University of California at Berkeley, the New School for Social Research in New York City and currently is a full-time professor at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy of Kingston in the United Kingdom. She also teaches an intensive summer seminar at the European Graduate School (EGS).

Aspects of Postmodernism (Prep for Derrida's Of Grammatology) by Benjamin Hagen

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source: Benjamin Hagen    上次更新日期：2014年9月5日
ENG 378 (Fall 2013): Aspects of Postmodernism
01/07/2014: These video lectures supplemented my Fall 2013 course at the University of Rhode Island, ENG 378: Aspects of Postmodernism. During the semester we read six "postmodern" novels as well as chapters from Jacques Derrida's /Of Grammatology/. Because Derrida's work was a more daunting reading task than our novels, I decided to supplement our readings and discussions with these lectures in order to give students (especially those unfamiliar with continental philosophy or literary theory) a few in-roads to an otherwise overwhelming book.

The six novels we also studied were:
1). B.S. Johnson's /Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry/
2). Paula Fox's /Desperate Characters/
3). Carole Maso's /The Art Lover/
4). David Mitchell's /Cloud Atlas/
5). China Miéville's /The City & The City/
6). Sheila Heti's /How Should a Person Be?/

(Part 1.1): The Title 11:57
(Part 1.2): The Future... 7:22
(Part 1.3): The "Exergue" and Logocentrism 14:39
(Part 1.4): Beginning Chapter 1 14:58
(Part 2.1): Notes on Style and Syntax 14:02
(Part 2.2): Saussure, Signs, and "The Signifier of the Signifier" 15:44
(Part 2.3): Summarizing Chapter One (Sort of...) 30:27
(Part 3.1): What is this book about again... ? 23:35
(Part 3.2): Deconstruction 28:36
(Part 4): Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism 25:54
(Part 5): Tracing the Trace 33:46
(Part 6.1): Difference and Differance 18:53
(Part 6.2): The Problem of Origins 18:42
(Part 6.3): Origination and Articulation 36:06
(7.1): Reviewing Part I (Chapter 1) 14:59
(7.2): Reviewing Part I (Chapter 2) 19:04
(Part 7.3): Reviewing Part I (Chapter 3) 26:29
(8.1): Writing, Naming, and Violence 17:02
(8.2): Writing, Naming, Violence 16:24
(8.3): Writing, Naming, Violence 20:27

人文經典閱讀(一)--蔣淑貞 / 交大

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source:  nctuocw       2015年10月11日
本課程是由交通大學人文社會學系/族群與文化碩士班提供。
本課程先修科目為人社系大一必修課「文學作品讀法」，課程教學目標：
●文學經典的意義
●「文學性」的課題：研究方法側重當代文化理論
課程資訊：http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/course_detail....
授權條款：Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
更多課程歡迎瀏覽交大開放式課程網站：http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/

Lec01 人文經典閱讀(一)課程簡介《浪漫主義》 42:28
Lec02 人文經典閱讀(一)浪漫主義思想家─盧梭 42:28
Lec03 人文經典閱讀(一)〈古水手之歌〉 39:37
Lec04 人文經典閱讀(一)《唐璜》 52:24
Lec05 人文經典閱讀(一)《浮士德》 (1/2) 42:12
Lec06 人文經典閱讀(一)《浮士德》 (2/2) 1:06:16
Lec07 人文經典閱讀(一)〈沉淪〉 52:43
Lec09 人文經典閱讀(一)「魔幻現實」介紹；《意識流/魔幻現實主義》(1/2) 1:24:55
Lec10 人文經典閱讀(一)「魔幻現實」介紹；《意識流/魔幻現實主義》(2/2) 1:00:38
Lec11 人文經典閱讀(一)「後殖民主義」介紹；《女性主義/後殖民主義》 (1/3) 36:01
Lec13 人文經典閱讀(一)「後殖民主義」介紹；《女性主義/後殖民主義》 (2/3) 1:32:22
Lec14 人文經典閱讀(一)「後殖民主義」介紹；《女性主義/後殖民主義》 (3/3) 1:32:53
Lec15 人文經典閱讀(一)《解構閱讀法》（《經典解碼》叢書第8冊） 51:04

Avital Ronell. Walking as a philosophical act. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2014年12月26日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, takes us through some thoughts on walking as a philosophical act. She explores the walker as well as possible accidents or diversions, tumbling and toppling over which may find us or which we may find along the way. Encounters and their counters, interlocutors and those who we come up against, Ronell takes us through literary tracks and typologies of the walker. Through the Reveries of a Solitary Walker of Rousseau as well as Nietzsche, Celan and DeMan, and Heidegger, Ronell expounds on variations of this theme in the opening lecture of the series at the European Graduate School in August 2014.

Foundations of Modern Social Theory (Fall 2009, Yale U) by Iván Szelényi

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source: YaleCourses        Last updated on 2014年7月2日

Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151)

This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention is paid to social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

1. Introduction 45:52
2. Hobbes: Authority, Human Rights and Social Order 42:56
3. Locke: Equality, Freedom, Property and the Right to Dissent 45:23
4. The Division of Powers- Montesquieu 44:13
5. Rousseau: Popular Sovereignty and General Will 40:28
6. Rousseau on State of Nature and Education 44:02
7. Utilitarianism and Liberty, John Stuart Mill 42:15
8. Smith: The Invisible Hand 46:30
9. Marx's Theory of Alienation 48:04
10. Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism (1) 50:24
11. Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism (cont.) 48:53
12. Marx's Theory of History 51:30
13. Marx's Theory of Class and Exploitation 51:13
14. Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality 46:18
15. Freud on Sexuality and Civilization 53:29
16. Weber on Protestantism and Capitalism 51:15
17. Conceptual Foundations of Weber's Theory of Domination 52:46
18. Weber on Traditional Authority 50:18
19. Weber on Charismatic Authority 49:26
20. Weber on Legal-Rational Authority 47:54
21. Weber's Theory of Class 44:38
22. Durkheim and Types of Social Solidarity 37:39
23. Durkheim's Theory of Anomie 46:42
24. Durkheim on Suicide 50:49
25. Durkheim and Social Facts 51:09

Introduction to Political Philosophy with Steven B. Smith at Yale University (Fall 2006)

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Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114)

This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition. Three broad themes that are central to understanding political life are focused upon: the polis experience (Plato, Aristotle), the sovereign state (Machiavelli, Hobbes), constitutional government (Locke), and democracy (Rousseau, Tocqueville). The way in which different political philosophies have given expression to various forms of political institutions and our ways of life are examined throughout the course.
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

1. Introduction: What is Political Philosophy? 37:06
2. Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Apology 45:35
3. Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Crito 47:16
4. Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic, I-II 47:15
5. Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic, III-IV 47:18
6. Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic, V 45:09
7. The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law: Aristotle's Politics, I, III 43:46
8. The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law: Aristotle's Politics, IV 47:59
9. The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law: Aristotle's Politics, VII 46:13
10. New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli's The Prince (chaps. 1-12) 37:21
11. New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli's The Prince (chaps. 13-26) 43:29
12. The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan 45:29
13. The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan 46:24
14. The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan 44:24
15. Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise (1-5) 44:41
16. Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise (7-12) 45:12
17. Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise (13-19) 45:12
18. Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse 43:53
19. Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse 41:36
20. Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Social Contract, I-II 40:39
21. Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America 42:05
22. Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America 38:13
23. Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America 50:34
24. In Defense of Politics 39:02

Slavoj Žižek. Lacanian Theology and Buddhism. 2012

source: egsvideo  2012年11月28日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about Lacanian theology in relation to Christianity and Buddhism. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the Kantian sublime in opera and film, the spectral texture of narrative, the mediation of desire, the Freudian unconscious, the fall in Christianity and Badiou's conception of the event of love in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Joan Copjec, Immanuel Kant, Richard Wagner, Alain Badiou, Gioacchino Rossini, Gilles Deleuze, G.K. Chesterton, Martin Luther, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Plato focusing on the Lacanian formulas of sexuation, Tristan and Isolde, object a, Christian prohibition, Catholic propaganda, enjoyment, infinite judgment, lamella, the undead, death drive, immortality, logic of envy, capitalism, anamnesis, objective appearance, truth. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012.