I’m please to announce that the Turkish translation of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is in its final preparation. The publisher is The Kitap Yayinlari in Istanbul. As there are an estimated 100 million speakers of Turkish, I am pleased that my book will be available to them. The book’s thesis: […]
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Quoted in Emmanuel Faye’s Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935 (Yale, 2009), p. 140, italics in the original. “Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny, and fight for the realization of one idea, does true order grow. Then spiritual superiority and
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I’m happy to announce that the Estonian translation of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault has been published by Postimees Kirjastus out of Tallinn, Estonia. Here’s the cover: I’ll post the publisher’s link soon. For other editions and translations, please see the Explaining Postmodernism page.
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A brief description of the Congo River: “From the western rim of this plateau, nearly a thousand feet high, the river descends to sea level in a mere 220 miles. During this tumultuous descent, the river squeezes through narrow canyons, boils up in waves 40 feet high, and tumbles over 32 separate cataracts. So great
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The published series now includes thirty episodes, of which the first ten are: 1 Immanuel Kant on the limits of reason. Critique of Pure Reason. 2 William James on pacifism and defeating militarism. “The Moral Equivalent of War.” 3 Galileo Galilei on not persecuting scientists, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina.” 4 Arachne and Athena
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The Kindle edition of my Nietzsche and the Nazis was my first ever Kindle publication, released just before the hardcover edition in 2010. It’s now out in many translations and in audiobook, and I’m well pleased with its track record. The audiobook has over 4.8 million views, which is gratifying. Here also is the original
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FEBRUARY 17TH WITH STEPHEN HICKS REGISTER TODAY The Wisconsin Forum 2021-2022 Season continues on Thursday, February 17, 2022, with Dr. Stephen Hicks, “The Invisibility of Entrepreneurism: Why Free-Market Polices So Often Lose.” “The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many are suspicious or outright hostile,
10. SoHo debate quotes: Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lentricchia. Follow-up to my debate with Thaddeus Russell. 9. Frightened Children Won’t Solve the World’s Problems. With link to my Wall Street Journal article, “Global Problems Are Too Big for Little Kids.” 8. Libertarian Social Justice? Hicks and Horwitz. At Friedman 8 conference. 7. “The Stain of Slavery”
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