The long march through the institutions in graphs. Check out series by data scientist David Rozado series on Twitter, especially the updated graphs posted in August 2022. * First, academic postmodernism’s high theory is developed in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, especially in philosophy. * Second, it spreads through other humanities fields (Literature, […]
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian
I’m happy to be joining the faculty of the new Peterson Academy, launching November 2023. I’ll be teaching two courses: Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy. (Syllabi forthcoming.) They’ll be recorded before a live studio audience in Miami, Florida. To attend, register here: https://petersonacademy.com/hicks.
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Who are the great philosophers and what are their key ideas? From the beginning of philosophy in Greek myths to the influential thinkers of our own time, in each episode of Philosophers, Explained Dr. Hicks does a close reading an important work. Other episodes: The full playlist of Philosophers, Explained. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D.,
In this episode of Philosophers, Explained, Dr. Hicks discusses the open letter Galileo wrote arguing that true science and true religion are in fact compatible. Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University
Reprising this from Thomas Akehurst’s Philosophy Now essay on why Bertrand Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy: “What is less well known is that in the 1930s and 1940s Russell’s attention turned to the idea that the origins of Nazism were primarily philosophical.” Russelll, according to Akehurst, mentioned several German philosophers by name, among
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Löwy raises the right question about the generation straddling 1900: So much of understanding the past 100 years turns on getting the answer right. That’s my project in Nietzsche and the Nazis and Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian
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