Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Mamgmanimity Revisited

Here's Dr. Jeff Klooger talking about his book Castoriadis: Psyche, Society, Autonomy, which I attempted to review here.

Part One:



Part Two:

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2 comments:

The Plump said...

An aside. I am always surprised at the inability of academics to distinguish between giving a talk and reading out loud. There is a real difference between written and spoken language and if you have written a book, I would have thought it would be possible to chat lucidly and interestingly about the subject rather than read a prepared and formally written script.

10/05/2011 4:58 pm
John said...

Hi The Plump

Apologies for the delay in publishing your comment. I've been deleting spam but haven't visited C&S for . . . well you can see how long.

I found over my brief few years of teaching that I used fewer and fewer notes for classes as I grew in confidence, but they were always there as a security blanket, to ensure I covered all the main points. Reading verbatim is certainly odd, but then so is lecturing to a video camera, without any cues from one's audience, so maybe it's easier to "stick to the script."

11/25/2011 10:37 am

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