[A translation into Portuguese (by Matheus Pacini) of my “Postmodernism’s Moral Low Ground”, first published in The Spectator (Australia).] Estamos lutando contra os pós-modernistas com uma mão amarrada nas costas? Batalhas intelectuais são a força vital de uma sociedade saudável. A vida é complicada e de alto risco, logo, pessoas racionais têm muito a debater. O […]
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[A translation into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde of my Open College episode, “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.”] El socialismo se define de manera estándar como la propiedad colectiva de los medios de producción. ¿Qué implica eso para tu vida sexual? A veces, el socialismo se concibe más estrechamente como una doctrina económica acerca de la
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My essay [pdf] was first published in 2009 in Journal of Private Enterprise. Here is the 21-minute audio edition in MP3 format or at YouTube. It’s also available at Amazon, and in Serbo-Croatian, Spanish [PDF] and Portuguese translations: [PDF] or [HTML]. Related: All of my audio editions, including my Open College podcast series.
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I’m happy to announce that, coincidentally with my upcoming Adventures in Postmodernism tour downunder, an Australia and New Zealand edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Thanks to Anthony Cappello and Connor Court Publishing for making it happen. For other editions and translations, please see the Explaining Postmodernism page.
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I am happy to announce that the publishing division of the Museum of the Second World War will be producing a new edition of my Nietzsche and the Nazis in Polish. I thank Dr. Marek Szymaniak for his efforts in making this possible. For information on other translations and editions, please see my Nietzsche and the Nazis page.
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“The all-destroyer” — was how Moses Mendelssohn described his contemporary Immanuel Kant. For more on the context for Mendelssohn’s strong conclusion, see p. 50 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated page.
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Chart 1.3: Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Post-modernism Pre-modernism Modernism Post-modernism Metaphysics Realism: Super-naturalism Realism: Naturalism Anti-realism Epistemology Mysticism and/or faith Objectivism: Experience and reason Social subjectivism Human Nature Original Sin; Subject to God’s will Tabula rasa and autonomy Social construction and conflict Ethics Collectivism: altruism Individualism Collectivism: egalitarianism Politics & Economics Feudalism Liberal
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British philosopher John Gray claims: “We live today amid the dim ruins of the Enlightenment project, which was the ruling project of the modern period.” For more on the implications of Gray’s pessimistic assessment for postmodernism, see p. 23 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is
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Friedrich Nietzsche on why the rise of the philosophers meant the fall of man: Once reason took over, men “no longer possessed their former guides, their regulating, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect, these unfortunate creatures; they were reduced to their ‘consciousness,’ their weakest and most
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G.W.F. Hegel said: “This *Good*, this *Reason*, in its most concrete form, is God. God governs the world; the actual working of his government—the carrying out of his plan—is the History of the World.” For more on the meaning of Hegel’s quotation and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 58 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism
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