Why Foucault as “basically a Nazi”?

Returning to this graphic’s placement of Michel Foucault on the spectrum between Marx and Heidegger. Why? Recall Foucault’s own words:: “I am simply a Nietzschean.” And: “Heidegger has always been for me the essential philosopher.”* Heidegger was a member of the National Socialist Party in the 1930s and 1940s. Foucault was a member of the […]

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Australia’s Tyson Popplestone interviews Stephen Hicks

Tyson Popplestone interviews Dr. Hicks on how cultural and political ideologies shift over time, with an emphasis on how intellectual movements and academia have influenced society’s values and further downstream, political movements. Dr. Hicks criticises several major movements but expresses a cautious optimism for the near future, emphasizing the potential for cultural renewal through entrepreneurism,

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Metaphysics and Education: What is Reality? [Lecture 2 of Philosophy of Education course]

By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA. Lecture 2: If education is about basic facts and truths about reality, then what is reality? Is it the natural world—or also a world beyond nature? Is it cause-and-effect—or random or sometimes miraculous? Is it finite in space and time—or infinite spatially and eternal? Previous lectures in

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‘The Truth About the Nazis’ with Stephen Hicks (Triggernometry interview)

Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster interview Stephen Hicks on the philosophers, intellectuals, and widespread support for the National Socialists. Related: The book the interview is based on: text version, and audio version below: Also at Triggernometry: ‘Postmodernism Explained’ by Professor Stephen Hicks.

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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917) | The ‘Father’ of Conceptual Art

“With his Fountain (1917), Duchamp made the quintessential statement about the history and future of art. Duchamp of course knew the history of art and, given recent trends, where art was going. He knew what had been achieved — how over the centuries art had been a powerful vehicle that called upon the highest development

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