Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists [Open College series]

A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto.

Audio:

Topics: Why indoctrination makes sense to postmodernists // Modern ideal of liberal education // My undergraduate experience // New-fashioned indoctrination

Transcription: Forthcoming.

Sources:

  • John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), Chapter 2.
  • Mark Lilla: “The history of French philosophy in the three decades following the Second World War can be summed up in a phrase: politics dictated and philosophy wrote.” (The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. New York: New York Review of Books, 2001, p. 161).
  • Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 29.
  • Michel Foucault, Foucault Live (Interviews, 1961-1984). Edited by Sylvère Lotringer. Translated by Lysa Hochroth and John Johnston. New York: Semiotext(e), 1989, p. 51.
  • Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marxism, p. 113.
  • Stanley Fish, quoted by Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi, who co-taught a course with Fish.
  • Frank Lentricchia, Criticism & Social Change, University of Chicago Press, 1983.
  • Jean-Francois Lyotard, Postmodern FablesTranslated by Georges Van Den Abbeele, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 69-70.
  • Breanne Fahs and Michael Karger. (2016). “Women’s Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism and the Projection of Danger.” Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. doi: 10.4471/generos.2016.1683. See the abstract on p. 929 and the comparison to Ebola and HIV starting on p. 938.

Related:

The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.

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