Elizabeth Warren and the doulos
Elizabeth Warren’s recent remarks offer a striking glimpse into one prominent strain of American political thought.
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History of Philosophy
A good year for Explaining Postmodernism
The Portuguese translation was published in Brazil, a Serbo-Croatian translation of the first chapter was published, and a new, expanded edition was published last month in Kindle and this month in a snazzy hardcover. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining Postmodernism, the reader may remain ill at
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Expanded edition of Explaining Postmodernism published
The Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is scheduled for release mid-August in both hardcover and Kindle versions. The first edition did well (for a philosophy book), going through two hardcover and nine softcover printings. The expanded edition includes the original text, though with many new footnotes and
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Hayek and Rand on values — APEE 2011 conference
For this year’s conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, I am organizing and chairing a session on two giants of the twentieth century — Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand — with four scholars comparing their views on values and political economy. Topic: Hayek and Rand on Values Chair: Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., Rockford College,
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The most dangerous philosophy book (Fall 2010 edition)
For my Introduction to Philosophy course, an optional question on the final exam was: In your judgment, what is the most dangerous book we read this semester? First give a clear and sympathetic presentation of the book’s most important themes, and then explain why you think the book is dangerous. We read six major works
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Kindle version of Explaining Postmodernism published
The Kindle version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available. The book had a gratifying two hardcover printings and eight softcover printings from 2004-2009, and I am finalizing an expanded edition to be published in hardcover in the spring of 2011. Here’s the book description: “Tracing postmodernism from
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A stolen Descartes manuscript
This week we are starting Descartes’s Meditations in my Introduction to Philosophy course. One of the wonderful things about the Internet is its enabling us easily to see things like Descartes’s original handwriting. Here is a letter he wrote, dated 27 May 1641: The letter is in French and was written to Marin Mersenne about
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Postmodern philosophy: Introduction
Stephen Hicks introduces postmodern philosophy by contrasting its themes to modernism and pre-modernism. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: [Part 13: Marxism] Education under socialism. Next: What modernism is. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube
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