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Explaining Postmodernism (Expanded Edition)
- Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
- Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century.
Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world? Why do they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences? Why has a significant portion of the political left - the same left that traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all, and optimism - now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism?
Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy.
This expanded edition includes two additional essays by Stephen Hicks: "Free Speech and Postmodernism" and "From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly".
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- Literatura y vida
- 09-01-21
Brilliant
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- Karol
- 28-07-19
Fantastic Exposition, makes one think
This book has exceeded my expectations. It explains the fruits of postmodernism by painting a picture of a tree starting from the roots and ending at the youngest branches. it's exciting to see how something we can relate to today is linked to enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau and Kant. Although the author describes them as revolutionist rather than enlightenment thinkers. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the current cultural climate.
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- Dcl Bester
- 25-02-21
Time to slay a dragon?
Exceptional book tracing how Western culture scored its philosophical own goal.
If you are confounded by all things "woke" then read this book to understand from which soil it sprung.
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- Jammin042
- 17-10-21
Absolutely brilliant from beginning to end
Uncovering the mess we are in with the rise of Critical Theory is well laid out in this book. It is a must read for anyone interested in the movements in the modern western world.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-08-21
An intellectual tour de force.
An intellectual tour de force. Essential for anyone wanting to understand the origins of postmodernism and how we got where we are.
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- Paolo Carta
- 25-03-19
Postmodernism according di Ayn Rand
This book should more honestly be titled: 'Postmodernism according to Ayn Rand'. I should have paid attention to the publisher, Atlas, as in 'Atlas shrugged'.
The book is an account, for the simple minded militant, of how Postmodernism can be understood from the vantage point of the Russian-American writer, whose ideas are to philosophy what Flat Earth 'Theory' is to Physics. You'll find very little Postmodernism and a lot of Randian Objectivism. You might however enjoy an hilarious last chapter with a wholesale condemnation of modern art! Truly beyond satire.
Basically it's a prank: stay clear.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-06-20
Mind-Garbage
Hicks makes Jordan Peterson look like a credible scholar. the book engages and quotes a wealth of philosophers in an interesting way, but ultimately twists and manipulates every idea bit by bit in its attempt to weave a far-right seduction. Dear me... The value of the book is in revealing what a warped world the conservative ideologues inhabit. At best, I can say, read the book if you want to know the enemy. The image of philosophy that remains at the end is but a grotesque caricature of the real thing...
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- David
- 08-01-22
Read the reviews before you purchase...
Apparently you should never judge a book by it's cover, though you'd think the title might be a hint. This claimed to be an exposition of post-modernism, and the list of names of post-modernism thinkers on the cover would support this. However, if I had read some of the reviews I might not have bought this. It was like turning on the BBC and being switched to Fox. I knew nothing about Mr. (Dr.?) Hicks before I bought it but his right wing views shine through. His treatment of the left is entirely straw man. Hey, this book made ME feel smart.
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