Part I – Introduction - The Global Media Society and the Nature of Theory

Lecture 1
The Global Media Society and the Nature of Theory

Lecture 2
A Brief History of Western Philosophy: From Socrates to Hegel


Part II – The Nature of Theory: Marx and E.H. Carr

Lecture 3
Marxism: The Ultimate Example of Theory as Answer

Lecture 4
Marxism as Theory and Prediction

Lecture 5
Marxism and Theory as Answer: An Epistemological Critique

Lecture 6
E.H. Carr and The 20 Years' Crisis: A Structural Analysis

Lecture 7
A Structural Analysis of The Twenty Years' Crisis and The Dynamics of Theory as Question


Part III – Society and Objectivity: Claude Levi-Strauss and Max Weber

Lecture 8
Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, and The Savage Mind

Lecture 9
The Dynamics of Mythical Thinking: Bricolage, Classification and Transformation

Lecture 10
The Interlinked Dynamics of Mythical Thinking and Political Thinking: The Post-World War II US Experience

Lecture 11
Cognitive, Normative and Emotional Aspects of Myth and Post-1945 American Political Thinking

Lecture 12
Dominant Myths and the Production of Media

Lecture 13
Dominant Myths and the Consumption of Media – Media and the Consumption of Dominant Myths

Lecture 14
Max Weber, Verstehende Sociology and A Democratic Theory of Objectivity

Lecture 15
The "Objective" Analysis of Action, Thought and Concrete Situations


Part IV – Consciousness and Communication: Freud and Kenneth Burke

Lecture 16
Freud, Dream Analysis and "The Fundamental Question"

Lecture 17
"The Fundamental Dilemma," Dream Analysis and Medianalysis ©: Interpreting the "Dreams of the World"

Lecture 18
Kenneth Burke and the Structural Dynamics of Communication and Language

Lecture 19 – 3 CDs
Hierarchy, Image and The Structural Dynamics of Narrative and Story