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Universal History 1957-1967

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...man is not created out of clay and out of the living breath only, but out of the name which another person faithfully, and believingly, and lovingly bestows on him. ... The power to name is the divine power, gentlemen. And the power to bestow the right title on us comes always to any human being as a revelation... God is the power that makes men speak. We know nothing else of God. You can explain nature by nature. By electrons, by neutrons, and neutrons by protons, et cetera. You can explain the world without God. You cannot explain your own power to make a declaration of love, and a declaration of war by anything but the divine power to speak. ...every word you speak has consequences in time. And these consequences go far beyond your own lifetime, and they originate from time immemorial in the words you use. ...To speak means to create, or it means to deny creation.

March 5, 1957

A universal history, when it is taught, can have only this one purpose, to implant in you the power to overcome your private times, your private rhythms, and to share that rhythm which makes you brothers with the people 7,000 years back. History should make you indifferent to your contemporaries, and should make you very intimate with the people of all other times. If it doesn't do this, history hasn't done its purpose. The brotherhood of man through time is equally important as the brotherhood of the ladies and men today in the barbershop, or on the street. ...Real time is only a time which is able to surround, to embrace, to contain, to condense all the times. ...From Easter to All Saints, a thousand years were spent with inculcating into the tribes, the empires, the cities of the Greeks, and the Jewish priesthood the verity that the same man had to be a prophet, and an ancestor, and a poet, and a priest. And that these four great creations of antiquity could not lie separate...

March 16, 1967

Rosenstock-Huessy calls Christ the turning point of history: the culmination of the yearnings and the redemption of the achievements of the ancient world. He declares that the Christian era exists. The four ages of the ancient world are succeeded by the millennia of the Christian era in which one God over many gods has been established, one world out of many worlds has been created, and one society out of the many societies is yet to be created. The course concentrates on the histories of tribes, astral empires, the Greeks, and the Jews.

In Universal History 1957, the themes include the social inheritance of acquired characteristics, the sociology of historical change, and the generational shift of each new way of life. Individual lectures feature war and the tribes, the cost of settlement, fatherhood and Israel, the difference between "people" and "public," and the definition of saints. Lecture 3 contains a good presentation of the purpose of Universal History, and its importance in creating the future. Lecture 11 has a vintage Rosenstock-Huessy presentation of speech. Twenty-nine 1-hour lectures.

Universal History - 1967 explores many of Rosenstock-Huessy’s issues, beyond the outline of Universal History itself. Examples would be speech and naming, and Christianity as the center of history and ethics. The series also covers creativity, the development of human culture, how we become enslaved by certain types of thinking, and the development of one’s soul. Twenty 1-hour lectures.

For Richard Feringer's more detailed notes on Universal History - 1967 click here

The Rosenstock-Huessy lectures are available in two versions:
•     the original audio recording of Rosenstock-Huessy giving the lecture and
•     transcripts of the original audio.

Argo sells these versions in two different packages:
•     electronic and
•     paper

The electronic package of Universal History 1957-1967 is sold on a DVD, which contains

•     the original recordings of 55 hours of college lectures in mp3 format,

•     as well as every transcript of all of the English-language lectures Rosenstock-Huessy recorded, in computer text format. These transcripts are an excellent basis for word searches, to compare what Rosenstock-Huessy had to say on a particular topic or on related topics, either in different contexts across nearly 20 years.

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