“This is not a book review but a flat-out endorsement. Stephen R. C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism is a great but very scary read.”
Professor Tibor Machan’s review of *Explaining Postmodernism* Read More »
Professor Fletcher on Lacan’s anti-humanism: “What you’re doing is like a spider: you’re making a very delicate web without any human reality in it … All this metaphysics is not necessary. The diagram was very interesting, but it doesn’t seem to have any connection with the reality of our actions, with eating, sexual intercourse, and
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John Searle reports this conversation with Michel Foucault about deconstructionist Jacques Derrida: ‘You can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, “He says so and so,” he always says, “You misunderstood me.” But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this
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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the thirteenth: OC13: Postmodernism’s Moral *Low* Ground. “Our classic rules are as follows: Approach discussion with a spirit of benevolence, give people the initial benefit of the doubt, make one’s goal the mutual advancement of understanding, hear out both or all sides
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[A translation into Portuguese (by Matheus Pacini) of my “Postmodernism’s Moral Low Ground”, first published in The Spectator (Australia).] Estamos lutando contra os pós-modernistas com uma mão amarrada nas costas? Batalhas intelectuais são a força vital de uma sociedade saudável. A vida é complicada e de alto risco, logo, pessoas racionais têm muito a debater. O
A inferioridade moral do Pós-modernismo Read More »
Marxism as “scientific socialism” and what happens when the scientific data fail to cooperate. For more, here is the full 2018 lecture at the University of British Columbia.
How Failed Marxist Predictions Led to the Postmodern Left — lecture excerpt Read More »
Jacques Derrida on the relevance of Marxism to postmodernism: “deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also *within the tradition* of a certain Marxism in a certain *spirit of Marxism*.” For more on the implications of Derrida’s writings for postmodernism, see p. 14 of
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René Girard on bringing Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida to the USA in 1966: “When Freud came to the USA, he said, as he approached New York: ‘I’m bringing the plague to them’; but he was wrong. Americans digested and Americanized psychoanalysis easily and quickly. But in 1966 we really brought the plague with Lacan
On Derrida: “We really brought the plague” Read More »