Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Postmodern Strategy: Chapter 6 of Explaining Postmodernism

At the Explaining Postmodernism page, Chapter Six of my book is now available online. This final chapter integrates the epistemological material from chapters two and three with the political material from chapters four and five to show how the distinctive contemporary postmodern strategies follow.

Here are the chapter’s sections and page numbers:

Chapter Six: Postmodern Strategy [pdf]

Connecting epistemology to politics 174
Masks and rhetoric in language 175
When theory clashes with fact 178
Kierkegaardian postmodernism 179
Reversing Thrasymachus 182
Using contradictory discourses as a political strategy 184
Machiavellian postmodernism 186
Machiavellian rhetorical discourses 187
Deconstruction as an educational strategy 188
Ressentiment postmodernism 191
Nietzschean ressentiment 193
Foucault and Derrida on the end of man 195
Ressentiment strategy 198
Post-postmodernism 201

[This is an excerpt from Stephen Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004, 2011). The full book is available in hardcover or e-book at Amazon.com. See also the Explaining Postmodernism page.]

“Postmodernism Unpeeled” discussion with David Thompson

David Thompson is a critic and commentator with strong interests in pop culture and postmodernism. His interview with me based on my book Explaining Postmodernism is now posted at his site.

Previous interviews I’ve done on postmodernism’s themes and roots were published in Navigator and New Individualist magazines.

The following scholarly reviews of the book have been published:
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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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
Scholargy Publishing, 2004.

The following scholarly reviews have been published:
Professor Gary Jason in Liberty
Professor Curtis Hancock in The Review of Metaphysics (and can be read online here)
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.

[Stephen Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004, 2011). The full book is available in hardcover or e-book at Amazon.com. See also the Explaining Postmodernism page.]
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