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The seasons of Rick Roderick : a memoir / by Thomas Zigal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zigal, Thomas, Author.
- Series:
- Texas writers series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roderick, Rick.
- Philosophy teachers--Texas--Biography.
- Philosophy teachers.
- Philosophy--Web-based instruction--United States--History.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "A West Texas boy named Rick Roderick became one of the most popular philosophy professors in America because of the Teaching Company's videotape series of his lectures in the early 1990s. His many admirers included filmmaker George Lucas and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. But his devotees couldn't have imagined the harshness of his Texas upbringing, his struggles with anxiety and depression, and a major tragedy in his teen years that shaped the rest of his life. Roderick and author Thomas Zigal were best of friends from college until the philosopher's early death, and this book is the chronicle of their thirty-year friendship. Zigal has crafted a bittersweet memoir that reveals the triumphs and disappointments of a charismatic and challening philosophy teacher who inspired thousands of listeners through the power of his unique mind. The Seasons of Rick Roderick includes excerpts from an unfinished autobiography that Roderick was writing at the time of his death in 2002"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Hey, mister, can ya tell me where a man might find a bed?
- What happened to Rick Roderick?
- The Fat Man Cometh
- Children of Paradise
- Bury me not
- Fearless ignorance
- Baseball with a vengeance
- Baseball jones
- No road back
- Ribbon of darkness over me
- Galveston, oh Galveston
- Bible college
- Persona non grata
- The Fat Man in Celestial Bliss
- The day of the locust
- From blood to bone
- The circus is in town
- The Abilene Boys
- The Danish Surfer
- Love and fear
- The Fat Man Can't Go Home Again
- Rod
- Tuscola
- The Isle of Misfortune
- Ink-stained wretch
- Pyramid power
- California dreamin'
- Writing jones
- The Fat Man in the Bardo of Love
- The missing years
- Return of the natives
- Getting ourselves back to the garden
- There at the beginning and before
- Duplexities
- Out of the depths
- The Fat Man in the Museum of Ideas
- The Earl of Duke
- A dual world
- Radically Socratic
- How can they kill me?
- Hope
- The Fat Man in the Promised Land
- Goin' to California, where they sleep out every night
- Living it up in the Hotel California
- Moving on
- The Fat Man Returns
- Roderingo
- Brave new world
- The Bill Hicks of Philosophy
- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
- Rosedale
- The thrill is gone
- The fire this time
- The autumn of our discontent
- In league
- Quick fair death
- Blood brothers
- Valhalla on the Guadalupe
- Final wisdom
- Dramatis personae
- Grief and splendor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version Zigal, Thomas Seasons of Rick Roderick
- Online version Zigal, Thomas The seasons of Rick Roderick
- ISBN:
- 9780875659565
- 087565956X
- OCLC:
- 1559283642
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