I’ve updated the Intellectual History page with links to my recent posts on Bacon, Galileo, Kierkegaard, Russell, and Rand.
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I have a co-authored article (in English) forthcoming in a Polish academic journal. My co-author is Przemysław Zientkowski of Nicholas Copernicus University. Dr. Zientkowski has just published a book (in Polish) on the critique of human rights in Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. So if your Polish is up to speed, check it out.
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Part 7 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 7. Nietzsche as a Proto-Nazi [mp3] [YouTube] [27 minutes] 34. Anti-individualism and collectivism [mp3] [YouTube] 35. Conflict of groups [mp3] [YouTube] 36. Instinct, passion, and anti-reason [mp3] [YouTube] 37. Conquest and war [mp3] [YouTube] 38. Authoritarianism [mp3] [YouTube] 39.
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Part 5 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 5. Nietzsche’s Life and Influence [mp3] [YouTube] [46 minutes] 21. Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? [mp3] [YouTube] 22. God is dead [mp3] [YouTube] 23. Nihilism’s symptoms [mp3] [YouTube] 24. Masters and slaves [mp3] [YouTube] 25. The origin of slave morality
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In “Philosophy and a Century of War,” I left the Soviet Union out of my discussion of World War II, for reasons not clear or convincing to everyone. So let me lay out my thought process. I started with a semi-complete list of the belligerents on both sides. It looks like this: From outside perspective,
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Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View was first produced as a documentary in 2006. The book version was published in 2010. A Polish translation is forthcoming in 2014. We are releasing an audiobook version serially. To begin, here are Parts 1 and 2. Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [mp3] [YouTube] [5 minutes] 1.
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This is the sixth and final chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Six: Postmodern Strategy [mp3] [YouTube] [54 minutes total] Connecting epistemology to politics [mp3] [YouTube] Masks and rhetoric in language [mp3] [YouTube] When theory clashes with fact [mp3] [YouTube] Kierkegaardian postmodernism [mp3] [YouTube] Reversing
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This is the fifth chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Five: The Crisis of Socialism [mp3] [YouTube] [74 minutes total] Marx and waiting for Godot [mp3] [YouTube] Three failed predictions [mp3] [YouTube] Socialism needs an aristocracy: Lenin, Mao, and the lesson of the German Social
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