A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto.
Audio:
Topics: Why indoctrination makes sense to postmodernists // Modern ideal of liberal education // My undergraduate experience // New-fashioned indoctrination
Transcription: Forthcoming.
Sources:
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), Chapter 2.
- Mark Lilla: “The history of French philosophy in the three decades following the Second World War can be summed up in a phrase: politics dictated and philosophy wrote.” (The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. New York: New York Review of Books, 2001, p. 161).
- Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 29.
- Michel Foucault, Foucault Live (Interviews, 1961-1984). Edited by Sylvère Lotringer. Translated by Lysa Hochroth and John Johnston. New York: Semiotext(e), 1989, p. 51.
- Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marxism, p. 113.
- Stanley Fish, quoted by Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi, who co-taught a course with Fish.
- Frank Lentricchia, Criticism & Social Change, University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Jean-Francois Lyotard, Postmodern Fables, Translated by Georges Van Den Abbeele, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 69-70.
- Breanne Fahs and Michael Karger. (2016). “Women’s Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism and the Projection of Danger.” Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. doi: 10.4471/generos.2016.1683. See the abstract on p. 929 and the comparison to Ebola and HIV starting on p. 938.
Related:
- Philosophy of Education — Course Lectures
- School Sucks podcast on education and pomo
- Alan Charles Kors on free speech and education
- Politicians Should *Not* Enforce Free Speech at Universities
- Three Stages of Postmodernism–From Foucault and Rorty to Now [transcript]
The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.