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 »
Reading postmodern history can be frustrating, with its philosophical antipathy to facts and truth and its ideological priors. Here’s an example — Jean-François Lyotard on the rise of authoritarianism: Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the ‘peace’ imposed on
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In my Kant and Modern Art post, I quoted eight varied big-name contemporary thinkers — Danto and Dutton and Rand and Scruton and others — who identify Immanuel Kant as the key philosopher in explaining the transition to modernism in art. Here are two more I came across recently: Jean-François Lyotard, leading postmodern thinker: “It
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Stephen Hicks comments on key quotations from Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, and other postmodernists. From Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: Post-modernism’s themes. Next: Problems from Marxism. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists. Return to the
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