Coming Soon:
The following books by Robert Paul Wolff are available on
Amazon.com as e-books: KANT'S THEORY OF MENTAL ACTIVITY, THE AUTONOMY OF REASON, UNDERSTANDING MARX, UNDERSTANDING RAWLS, THE POVERTY OF LIBERALISM, A LIFE IN THE ACADEMY, MONEYBAGS MUST BE SO LUCKY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF FORMAL METHODS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for "Robert Paul Wolff Kant." There they will be.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON THE THOUGHT OF KARL MARX. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for Robert Paul Wolff Marx."
9 comments:
You sent me to the dictionary. Can the term be used outside of the theater or a performance? As in: Trump's was not a boffo presidency - buffoonish, perhaps, but certainly not boffo. I suppose so given that Trump is playing the part of a president.
But my lectures are performances.
Precisely! That is why I added "or a performance" - and so they should be. A great lecturer is also a maéstro (or maéstra, of course).
I hate to bring it up again, Dr. Wolff, but the best performance was the Bush Beaters/Rabbit Whompers story, an unparalleled digression into anthropology, comedy and social theory. Jerry, if you were to hang out in a Theater Department you would find that everything is a performance.
Lectures sure are performances. If the thought 'It's showtime!' has never gone through your mind before going in front of a clsss you are probably not very good.
Her politics aren't Pete Seeger's, but she does seem to sum up the stupidity and charm of a long-gone era, the one and only Ethel Merman singing "There's no business like show business."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIiQMsDQ0Uo
If you have the time, I would like to see your Twitter feed kept current with updates and opinions. If you like, I could whip up some graphics for you to use as well.
C'mon, we all know, by way of Erving Goffman, that each and every social interaction is performative---except, ofcourse, when "Commenting" on Blog Posts.
Lecture 2 was AWESOME! But I didn't notice the finish line ;).
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