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Postmodern Strategy [Explaining Postmodernism audiobook]

2 Comments / Economics, Film, History of Philosophy, Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy of History / Stephen Hicks

This is the sixth and final chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Six: Postmodern Strategy [mp3] [YouTube] [54 minutes total] Connecting epistemology to politics [mp3] [YouTube] Masks and rhetoric in language [mp3] [YouTube] When theory clashes with fact [mp3] [YouTube] Kierkegaardian postmodernism [mp3] [YouTube] Reversing […]

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The Crisis of Socialism [EP audiobook]

1 Comment / Economics, Film, History of Philosophy, Literature, Philosophy, Politics / Stephen Hicks

This is the fifth chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Five: The Crisis of Socialism [mp3] [YouTube] [74 minutes total] Marx and waiting for Godot [mp3] [YouTube] Three failed predictions [mp3] [YouTube] Socialism needs an aristocracy: Lenin, Mao, and the lesson of the German Social

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The Climate of Collectivism [EP audiobook]

2 Comments / History of Philosophy, Politics / Stephen Hicks

This is the fourth chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Four: The Climate of Collectivism [mp3] [YouTube] [102 minutes] From postmodern epistemology to postmodern politics [mp3] [YouTube] The argument of the next three chapters [mp3] [YouTube] Responding to socialism’s crisis of theory and evidence [mp3]

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The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason [EP audiobook]

Leave a Comment / History of Philosophy, Literature, Philosophy of History / Stephen Hicks

This is the third chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Three: The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason [mp3] [YouTube] [50 minutes] Heidegger’s synthesis of the Continental tradition [mp3] [YouTube] Setting aside reason and logic [mp3] [YouTube] Emotions as revelatory [mp3] [YouTube] Heidegger and postmodernism [mp3] [YouTube]

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Audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism

3 Comments / Economics, Literature, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

I’m happy to announce the audiobook version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. We’re releasing one chapter a week here and at YouTube. Thanks to Christopher Vaughan for his editing and production work. To begin, here is the first chapter. Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [mp3] [YouTube] [38 minutes] The

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What Postmodernism Is [EP audiobook]

Leave a Comment / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

The first chapter of the audiobook version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [mp3] [YouTube] [38 minutes] The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty [mp3] [YouTube] Modern and postmodern [mp3] [YouTube] Modernism and the Enlightenment [mp3] [YouTube] Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment [mp3] [YouTube] Postmodern academic

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Ronald Hamowy, R.I.P.

Leave a Comment / News, Politics / Stephen Hicks

Ronald Hamowy has died. He was a student of Friedrich Hayek’s, educated at the University of Chicago, historian, libertarian, Cato fellow, and emeritus professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. I knew him slightly as my editor when I wrote the article on “The Enlightenment” for The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, which he published with

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Appalling infant mortality numbers, then and now

1 Comment / Medicine / Stephen Hicks

From Peter Gay’s brief biography, about the terrible brevity of life in Mozart’s time. Wolfgang Mozart “was born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756, the seventh and last child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. Of his siblings, five died in infancy, and only one sister, four years his elder, survived … . This appalling

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Immigrant culture, race, and education

1 Comment / Education, Ethics, Film, Human Nature / Stephen Hicks

More data showing that culture, not race, is crucial to educational performance: “Africans outperform African-Americans in Seattle schools: Even the children of destitute Somali refugees do better.” From the Seattle Times report: “African-American students whose primary language is English perform significantly worse in math and reading than black students who speak another language at home

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A good year for Explaining Postmodernism

Leave a Comment / History of Philosophy, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

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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