Sprouts educational animators and Professor Stephen Hicks collaborated to produce this 3-part series on Nietzsche’s analysis of master/slave psychologies and moralities. Here’s the seven-minute Part 3:
Nietzsche: Masters and Slaves [Sprouts collaboration, Part 3] Read More »
Related: “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond: Why Art became Ugly.” Foundation for the Advancement of art lecture.
There’s a logic to the trendline of postmodern art Read More »
Part Two: “Nietzsche: Sheep and Wolves” (6 minutes). Part One: “Nietzsche: God Is Dead” (7 minutes). Related: My book Nietzsche and the Nazis: print and e-book via Amazon, audiobook at YouTube. My article, “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” contrasting the two great thinkers: print (PDF) and audiobook at YouTube.
Nietzsche’s Sheep and Wolves (and Humans). Sprouts animation collaboration, Part 2 Read More »
Chapters Four (The Climate of Collectivism), Five (The Crisis of Socialism), and Six (Postmodern Strategies) narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. Previously posted: Chapters One (What Postmodernism Is) Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. With timestamps for each section. CHAPTER FOUR: The Climate of
New YouTube edition of *Explaining Postmodernism* (2 of 2 parts) Read More »
This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters
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Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi party after being inspired by Gottfried Feder’s 1919 speech about the new party’s ideals. An indication of those ideals is in Feder’s 1919 publication, Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money. Here’s an excerpt from (Nazi sympathizer) Hadding Scott’s translation of Feder’s manifesto: “The abolition of enslavement
When Adolf joined the Party Read More »
This wry reference to Fountain is a clever and amusing response to postmodern art. More on Duchamp’s urinal and postmodern art here.
Ode to Duchamp (and postmodern art), by Newberry Read More »
¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. La pregunta importante es: ¿Por qué el mundo del arte del siglo XX adoptó lo feo y lo ofensivo? ¿Por qué ha derramado sus energías creativas y su astucia en lo trivial y autoproclamado como sin sentido? Para más artículos en español:
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You are a law-abiding citizen and a lover of art. You happen to be in a bar in Rome one night in 1506, where you witness a drunken, brawling Caravaggio kill an adversary. The day before, you had visited Caravaggio’s studio. You knew of two of his completed masterpieces, which you admire greatly. And in
Demands of Justice and Demands of Art — Caravaggio edition Read More »
Part I of “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond” focused on Modernism’s brutalism, reductionism, and conceptualism — and philosophy’s contributions from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. “By the beginning of the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century intellectual world’s sense of disquiet had become a full-blown anxiety. The artists responded, exploring in their works the implications of
Art’s devolution from Modernist to Postmodernist Read More »