I have a co-authored article (in English) forthcoming in a Polish academic journal. My co-author is Przemysław Zientkowski of Nicholas Copernicus University. Dr. Zientkowski has just published a book (in Polish) on the critique of human rights in Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. So if your Polish is up to speed, check it out.
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Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View was first produced as a documentary in 2006. The book version was published in 2010. A Polish translation is forthcoming in 2014. We are releasing an audiobook version serially. To begin, here are Parts 1 and 2. Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [mp3] [YouTube] [5 minutes] 1.
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A busy week for Nazi-related news items: * A profile of August Landmesser, the man who famously crossed his arms and refused to salute Hitler, and how the Nazi regime destroyed him and his family. * A short, blunt, and horrifying speech given by Himmler to a group of SS officers: “I am talking about
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Below is the text of an open letter published in The Huffington Post on September 19, 2012 by Thor Halvorssen, Founder of the Human Rights Foundation. The letter is useful for Business Ethics courses in discussions of marketing and advertising using popular political figures, especially political figures with a record like Guevara’s. An Open Letter
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Lectures on Philosophy of Education My Philosophy of Education course lectures on video. This fifteen-part video course covers key philosophical issues that bear directly upon education. We discuss the works of major philosophers — Plato, Locke, Kant, Dewey, Montessori, and others — who have influenced education greatly, and we compare several systems of educational philosophy
How Art became Ugly 2019 lecture in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kant’s Philosophy and Modernist Art 2023 interview in Norway, with Jan-Ove Tuv. The Next Revolution in Art My 2015 lecture in Hong Kong. Translation into Cantonese. Why Art Became Ugly Article first published in Navigator (Volume 7, Number 7), September 2004.Translations: German [pdf], Korean [pdf],
For my book entitled Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, including scholarly reviews and online availability of the manuscript, please visit the Explaining Postmodernism page. . “Free Speech and Postmodernism”. On how postmodernism generates the new attacks on free speech. Navigator, 2002. Also available as a 26-page monograph edition at Amazon. SOHO
A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2006, 2010. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is famous for his statement that “God is dead” — and for the fact that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis claimed Nietzsche as one of their great inspirations.* Were the Nazis right to do so — or did they misappropriate
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Explaining Postmodernism:Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault By Stephen R. C. HicksProfessor of Philosophy English editions: First edition: two hardcover and eight softcover printings from 2004-2010 by Scholargy Publishing. First edition Kindle e-book published 2010. Expanded hardcover edition published in 2011 by Ockham’s Razor. Kindle expanded edition published in 2011. Audiobook edition narrated by
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Steve Jobs on integrity: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.