The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Chances are good that someone you know owns a Che t-shirt. Romanticized versions of Ernesto Guevara Lynch’s bearded face are popular on campuses and elsewhere — so popular that the American chain store Urban Outfitters planned to release a whole line of Che-inspired fashion items, and dozens […]
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My podcast series published by Possibly Correct Productions, Toronto. Topics: Free Speech: Why the Philosophy Matters. Violent Politics: The Lesson of Marxism. Conservatives Are Not Free-Market Capitalists. Nietzsche’s Sister and The Will to Power. Your Sex Life under Socialism. Postmoderns and Marxists: Lovers or Enemies? And more. Via: YouTube, iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Twitter feed. Sign
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Three of my items are now in the top ten on postmodernism at Amazon Kindle: * The first edition of Explaining Postmodernism has dropped from first to second. * The expanded edition has dropped from fifth to seventh. Too sad. * But my essay on Free Speech and Postmodernism is now up to tenth. (The
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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
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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The Kindle version of the new, Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available. The hardcover will be out next month. The expanded edition also includes my Free Speech and Postmodernism and From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly essay. Images of the art works
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The Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is scheduled for release mid-August in both hardcover and Kindle versions. The first edition did well (for a philosophy book), going through two hardcover and nine softcover printings. The expanded edition includes the original text, though with many new footnotes and
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[This excerpt is from Chapter 5 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: Marx plus Freud, or oppression plus repression Marcuse had long labored in the trenches of academic philosophy and social theory before coming to fame in America in the 1960s. He studied philosophy at Freiburg
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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
[This is the Bibliography from Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Bibliography Abrams, M. H. et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Fifth edition, Volume II. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986. Ayer, A. J. Language, Truth, and Logic [1936]. Dover, 1946. Ayer, A. J., editor. Logical Positivism. Free