Friedrich Schleiermacher in Explaining Postmodernism

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Theologian Richard Niebuhr called Friedrich Schleiermacher “the Kant of modern Protestantism.” Here is Schleiermacher himself: “The essence of religion is *the feeling of absolute dependence*. I repudiated rational thought in favour of a theology of feeling.” For more on Schleiermacher and his contributions to postmodernism, see p. 57 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau […]

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“Campus Power Politics” republished [Church and State]

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My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The protesting students are neither ‘snowflakes’ who can’t take the heat nor ‘delicate flowers’ whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn

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“Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?” [Church and State]

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My “Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question, especially the sort of rationalist worldview that emerged in the seventeenth and

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Andrea Dworkin in Explaining Postmodernism

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“The normal fuck,” writes Andrea Dworkin, “by a normal man is taken to be an act of invasion and ownership undertaken in a mode of predation.” For more on the implications of Dworkin’s claim for postmodernism, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated

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Latin America must abandon victimhood and open to the world

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[John Enright translated this short piece by María Marty summarizing her interview with me. The video of the 12-minute interview follows.] Stephen Hicks is the author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault and Nietzsche and the Nazis. A Personal View, which have been translated into several languages, including Spanish. Hicks also

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Alexei Marcoux: What Is Entrepreneurship? [transcript]

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[This lecture is Part 1 of the Entrepreneurship and Values series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Dr. Alexei Marcoux on Defining Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship as an Essentially Contested Concept” I want to talk today about entrepreneurship and, in particular, its status as an essentially contested concept. By an essentially contested concept,

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Martin Heidegger in Explaining Postmodernism

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Being is nothing. “Nothing,” wrote Martin Heidegger, “not merely provides the conceptual opposite of what-is but is also an original part of essence.” That may not make sense logically, but: “Authentic speaking about nothing always remains extraordinary. It cannot be vulgarized. It dissolves if it is placed in the cheap acid of merely logical intelligence.”

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