Art – Page 23 – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason [EP audiobook]

Leave a Comment / History of Philosophy, Literature, Philosophy of History / Stephen Hicks

This is the third chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Three: The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason [mp3] [YouTube] [50 minutes] Heidegger’s synthesis of the Continental tradition [mp3] [YouTube] Setting aside reason and logic [mp3] [YouTube] Emotions as revelatory [mp3] [YouTube] Heidegger and postmodernism [mp3] [YouTube] […]

The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason [EP audiobook] Read More »

The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [EP audiobook]

12 Comments / Architecture, Economics, Epistemology, Film, History of Philosophy, Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy of History / Stephen Hicks

This is the second chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Two: The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [mp3] [YouTube] [72 minutes] Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science [mp3] [YouTube] The beginnings of the Counter-Enlightenment [mp3] [YouTube] Kant’s skeptical conclusion [mp3] [YouTube] Kant’s problematic from empiricism and rationalism

The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [EP audiobook] Read More »

Audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism

3 Comments / Economics, Literature, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

I’m happy to announce the audiobook version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. We’re releasing one chapter a week here and at YouTube. Thanks to Christopher Vaughan for his editing and production work. To begin, here is the first chapter. Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [mp3] [YouTube] [38 minutes] The

Audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism Read More »

Philosophy and Film Series: Groundhog Day

Leave a Comment / Film, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

My colleagues Matt Flamm and Shawn Klein will lead a discussion of the 1993 film, Groundhog Day. If you had to relive one day of your life repeatedly, what would you do? The discussion will take place on Monday, February 4th, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the CEE office at Rockford College. Light refreshments

Philosophy and Film Series: Groundhog Day Read More »

Pushback against pomo art orthodoxies

4 Comments / Art / Stephen Hicks

Three recent and encouraging data points: The collapse of Damien Hirst’s art market — Bloomberg notes that “at a time when the contemporary art market has sharply rebounded, with auctions pulling in proceeds that rival the giddiest pre-recession highs,” Hirst’s value has jumped the shark. “Hirst works acquired during his commercial peak, between 2005 and

Pushback against pomo art orthodoxies Read More »

Musical experience — intriguing example

2 Comments / Music / Stephen Hicks

Adam Curtis at the BBC blog gives us two identical video clips set to very different music. Listen to some of each clip to see whether you experience what Curtis suggests. About the first clip, Curtis says, “I think it gives a sense that we are all together in the dance.” I agree. But the

Musical experience — intriguing example Read More »

Philosophy and Film Series: Crimes and Misdemeanors

Were the Modernist painters misogynist?

3 Comments / Art / Stephen Hicks

Some initial evidence for your consideration: paintings from Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, and de Kooning. At a TRAC conference in Ventura, I heard an intriguing talk by Kay Kane, professor of drawing at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Kane’s talk was based partly on (and partly diverged from) Wendy Steiner’s Venus in Exile (University

Were the Modernist painters misogynist? Read More »