These are Rick Roderick's audio lectures The Teaching Company series * Philosophy and Human Values, 1990 * Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition, 1991 * Self Under Siege - Philosophy in the 20th Century, 1993 * Mill on Liberty, guest lecture from 'The Great Minds of Western Intellectual  Tradition' (1st ed), Part IV, Philosophy in the Epoch of Ideology, 2000Rick Roderick was born in Abilene, Texas in 1949 and received his B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin. He did post-graduate work at Baylor University and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1977, Professor Roderick taught at Baylor University, the University of Texas, Duke University and National University in Los Angeles.His best topics were Marx and Marxism, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, 19th-Century Philosophy, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He also taught Ethics, Logic, History of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Existentialism.He was the recipient of the Oldright Fellowship at the University of Texas and served as associate editor to The Pawn Review and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Dr. Roderick was the editor of the Baylor Philosophy Journal and a member of the Phi Sigma Tau National Honor Society of Philosophy. He presented more than 25 papers, and published 13 reviews and literary criticisms. He was the author of the book Habermas and the Foundation of Critical Theory (1986) as well as numerous articles in professional journals.Rick Roderick died in 2002.