On January 28, I’ll be giving a one-hour talk on “Postmodernism and the Verdict of History,” followed by a question period. Thanks to Max Oblasky for the invitation and organizing the event.
Talk at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign coming up Read More »
In PDF format: Ethics (PHIL 122) and Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325). I’m also happy that we will have seven guest speakers this semester, sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. We will learn from two economists, three philosophers who specialize in ethics, and two executive-entrepreneurs: * Jennifer Dirmeyer, Assistant Professor of Economics,
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My site’s year-end statistics are pretty much in. Here are the most popular posts for 2017: 1. Interviewed by Jordan B. Peterson. 2. The lecture that launched my Explaining Postmodernism book project: at the Atlas Society conference, University of Colorado. 3. Plato on censoring artists — a summary. 4. From Marxism to Postmodernism: an excerpt
Syllabi for Professor Hicks’s Fall 2017 courses.
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A summer trip to the family homestead in Canada brought me face to face with this pastel portrait my parents had done of me at age 7 or 8. Aside from the slightly crazed look in my (older me) eyes, I like the contrast and continuity.
A new printing of the expanded edition was published this month in a snazzy hardcover. Its theme: “The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible. The failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary.” This is the fifteenth printing since its first publication in 2004. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining
New printing of *Explaining Postmodernism* — the fifteenth Read More »
On August 17 at 1 p.m. Eastern, Professor Peterson will host a discussion with me on the culture wars, postmodernism and its manifestations in university politicization, the pronoun mandates, and political correctness. The discussion will be recorded and later released on social media. Here are some earlier Peterson-Hicks intersections: (Here’s the mentioned Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism
Discussion with Jordan Peterson on August 17 — update Read More »
Mark the date: Beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on the 17th, Professor Peterson and I will discuss university politicization, the pronoun wars, political correctness, and other manifestations of postmodernism. The discussion will be recorded and released on social media. Our initial point of contact was my book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to
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