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“Rousseau’s Return” — Return to Reason and Engineering Politics discussion

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My long-form discussion with Truman and Kevin on: What are the major differences between Marx’s socialism and Rousseau’s socialism? Why Rousseau is more important than Marx in today’s culture wars? What does being an adult mean, now that we’re so rich and free? Were the French Revolutionaries Rousseau’s disciples? The book under discussion: Explaining Postmodernism: […]

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New YouTube edition of *Explaining Postmodernism* (2 of 2 parts)

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Chapters Four (The Climate of Collectivism), Five (The Crisis of Socialism), and Six (Postmodern Strategies) narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. Previously posted: Chapters One (What Postmodernism Is) Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. With timestamps for each section. CHAPTER FOUR: The Climate of

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Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s National Press Director [on Kant]

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Dietrich was a Ph.D. in Political Science from Freiburg University (where later Martin Heidegger was professor of philosophy). In a 1934 lecture delivered at the University of Köln, Dietrich bases National Socialist political philosophy directly upon the philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. A key theme of the lecture is Universalism versus Individualism, where individualism

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New complete YouTube edition of *Explaining Postmodernism* (1 of 2 Parts)

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This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters

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Encroaching Darkness series: With James Lindsay and Stephen Hicks

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My paired conversations in the Encroaching Darkness series, “The Seeds of Collectivism” and “Encroaching Darkness.” Hosted by Michael O’Fallon and featuring James Lindsay and me in conversation. Description: When you listen to the moral language and rhetoric of our culture today, you less often hear appeals to “personal responsibility” and “rugged individualism” — and more

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Professor Max Hocutt’s review of *Explaining Postmodernism*

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“This excellent little volume, by an objectivist philosopher possessed of acute understanding and broad learning, asks and answers two pertinent questions: First, why have ‘postmodernist’ intellectuals of the kind you find in English departments and Women Studies programs, but not the Chemistry department, rejected Enlightenment belief in reason while embracing epistemological relativism and metaphysical nihilism

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Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters [Open College transcript]

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Topics and Times: What a meaningful life requires: [00:00 — 03:31] Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics [03:31 — 10:35] Walt Whitman quotation [09:28 — 10:35] Why the authoritarian left [10:35 — 13:53] Advertisement: StephenHicks.org [13:53 — 14:46] How we got to where we are now [14:46 — 45:19] The

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