Happy to announce the results of a new project to take Joyce’s famous Ulysses and render it safe for modern readers. The 732-page book was published in 1922 before standards of appropriate language were known and enforced. So for this centennial edition, a team of readers was commissioned to bring this historically and literarily important […]
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Join The Atlas Society for a special webinar discussion with Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks and Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski on Wednesday, March 15 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET, when the duo will discuss the philosophy of history and take up the questions: What causes historical change? What’s the role of ideas, knowledge institutions, or
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Get your tickets today at Reliance College’s site. Live in or near the Chicago area? You’re invited to join Professor Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., for a night of ideas and discussion on the topic “What Entrepreneurial Education Is and Why We Need it Now.” Hosted by Reliance College, a new liberal arts college — opening September
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Refreshing this quotation from Zeev Sternhell’s The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale University Press, 2010), a scholarly study of the most disturbing intellectual trend of the modern world — the ongoing lineage of intellectuals opposed to the Enlightenment tradition of reason, naturalism, individualism, and freedom. Along the way Sternhell asks, of Nietzsche’s place in the trend, an
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Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy (USA) and John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister (Australia) discuss three philosophies that feed into Identity Politics. Excerpted from this full-hour interview. Related:
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Booker T. Washington: “From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race. I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights and privileges, or certain
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[This excerpt is from Chapter 4 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Hegel on worshipping the state While a student at Tübingen, Hegel’s favorite reading had been Rousseau. “The principle of freedom dawned on the world in Rousseau, and gave infinite strength to man.”[88] As discussed in Chapter Two, Hegel was
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The Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit is a private foundation with the primary purpose of promoting scientific and scholarly research. Professor Hicks will give a short talk on “From Postmodernism to the Four Wokes” at the foundation’s World Heritage site at Engelsbergs. The conference program is here.
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