Our topics with timestamps: 00:00:45 Introduction 00:01:18 Is Nietzsche’s philosophy positive? 00:03:06 Postmodernists as fundamentally jaded 00:03:48 Herbert Marcuse: Hermeneutics of Suspicion 00:07:26 Critical Theory: Marxism Modified? 00:12:00 Immanuel Kant-not postmodern, but… 00:17:08 More on Kant and the use of labels 00:26:29 Postmodernism’s discomfort with Categories and Labels 00:28:53 Marx or Rousseau as Guide? 00:35:37 Rousseau-Primitivism and statism 00:42:14 Responsibility in a collective world 00:45:51 The collective in practice-parasitism 00:51:18 Thinkspot 00:56:13 The practicality of Philosophy
Related: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.