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New complete YouTube edition of *Explaining Postmodernism* (1 of 2 Parts)

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This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters […]

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Professor Max Hocutt’s review of *Explaining Postmodernism*

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“This excellent little volume, by an objectivist philosopher possessed of acute understanding and broad learning, asks and answers two pertinent questions: First, why have ‘postmodernist’ intellectuals of the kind you find in English departments and Women Studies programs, but not the Chemistry department, rejected Enlightenment belief in reason while embracing epistemological relativism and metaphysical nihilism

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Russian translation published: *Explaining Postmodernism*

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RIPOL Classic Publishing (Moscow) has published a Russian-language edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Here’s an image of the final version of the cover. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible, and the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary. Information about other editions and translations is here.

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Michael Rectenwald (NYU) discussion

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Full interview in June 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the Frankfurt School 14:13 Where are we

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New: Brazilian Portuguese translation of *Explaining Postmodernism*

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I’m happy that Faro Editorial, out of Brazil has published Guerra cultural: Como o pós-modernismo criou uma narrativa de desconstrução do ocidente. (Culture War: How Postmodernism Created a Narrative of Deconstruction of the West). It’s a new translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, the thesis of which is: The

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