Alexander Dugin is the most well-known philosopher in Russia. New to my Texts in Philosophy page, for use in my courses, is this translation of Dugin’s 1997 article “Fascism—Borderless and Red”. His influence upon Vladimir Putin and Putin’s inner circle is real but its degree is debated by experts on current Russian politics. Dugin was […]
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Philosophy matters, but does academic philosophy have more impact than philosophy done outside the academy? A list of historically influential philosophers: Academic Non-academic Plato Socrates Aristotle Locke Aquinas Descartes Galileo Spinoza Smith Hume Kant Kierkegaard Hegel Marx Russell Mill Heidegger Rand Popper Sartre Split: Nietzsche was an academic early in his career and then quit
Academic or non-academic philosophy: which matters more? Read More »
For those who would like an introductory overview of my work, here are eight articles selected for range: Friedrich Nietzsche, Postmodernism, Entrepreneurism, Liberal Education, Immanuel Kant, Objectivity, Ayn Rand, Modern Art, Jordan Peterson, Religion, and Ethics. “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education.” Reason Papers 41:1 (Winter 2019): 60-89. “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.” The Journal
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Conversations | Stephen Hicks | Postmodernism and Nazism | With John Anderson “Prof. Stephen Hicks is a philosopher who is well known for his expertise in demystifying postmodernist ideology. His insights into postmodernism and political correctness have extra significance today as we see university progressive activism spilling out into the streets.” John Anderson was Deputy
For ease of browsing and navigation, this audio edition read by author Stephen R.C. Hicks now has timestamps for each chapter and section: 00:00:00 EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM 00:00:25 CHAPTER ONE: What Postmodernism Is 00:02:22 The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty 00:09:22 Modern and postmodern 00:12:22 Modernism and the Enlightenment 00:22:50 Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment 00:25:06
Audiobook with timestamping now (Explaining Postmodernism) Read More »
These are clever: Zeno and BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE – Lays, 1981 Existentialism and IT IS. ARE YOU? – The Independent, 1987 Ayn Rand and HAVE IT YOUR WAY – Burger King, 1973 Rene Descartes and I THINK, THEREFORE IBM – IBM, 1988 Tertullian and IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING – Adidas, 2004 Plato and IT’S
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Excerpt from Charles Taylor on Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler, including his experience as a law student early in the National Socialist regime. If by now the incidents that follow are familiar—the intimidation, the erosion of press freedom, violence in the streets, people fleeing or attempting to flee—it’s their novelty to Haffner that carries the
On self-dissolution under the Nazis — a student’s memoir Read More »
Joseph Goebbels, Ph.D., was Reich Minister of Propaganda for the National Socialist government from 1933 to 1945 and, after Hitler, the second or third most powerful man in Germany. “According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block.”
Was Goebbels a Socialist? Read More »
Happy that this interview has topped 100,000 views. Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis, which is now closing in on 3 million views.
Explaining the cultural and electoral success of the National Socialists Read More »
Frankl was a Holocaust survivor and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School: I became acquainted with the last stages of corruption in my second concentration camp in Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity
Viktor Frankl: On the original preparation for the gas chambers Read More »