Explaining Postmodernism
Explaining Postmodernism:
Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
By Stephen R. C. Hicks
Scholargy Publishing, 2004.
Two hardcover printings and eight softcover printings from 2004-2009. Available at Amazon.
The Entire Book:
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault [pdf]
The Chapters and Sections:
Frontmatter [pdf]
Table of Contents [pdf]
Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [pdf]
Chapter Two: The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [pdf]
Chapter Three: The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason [pdf]
Chapter Four: The Climate of Collectivism [pdf]
Chapter Five: The Crisis of Socialism [pdf]
Chapter Six: Postmodern Strategy [pdf]
Bibliography [pdf] [html]
Index [pdf]
Acknowledgments [pdf]
The Tables and Charts:
Chart 1.1: Defining Pre-modernism and Modernism
Chart 1.2: The Enlightenment Vision [pdf]
Chart 1.3: Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism
Chart 5.1: Marxism on the Logic of Capitalism
Chart 5.2: Total Livestock in the Soviet Union
Chart 5.3: Gross Physical Output for Selected Food Items
Chart 5.4: Deaths from Democide Compared to Deaths from International War, 1900-1987
Chart 5.5: Left Terrorist Groups’ Founding Dates
Chart 5.6: The Evolution of Socialist Strategies [gif]
The Scholarly Reviews:
Professor Curtis Hancock in The Review of Metaphysics (and can be read online here)
Professor Gary Jason in Liberty
Professor Marcus Verhaegh in The Independent Review
Dr. David Gordon in The Mises Review
Professor Max Hocutt in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Professor Steven M. Sanders in Reason Papers.
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