My discussion with the well-prepared Ricardo Lopes. Our topics:
* What made the moderns revolutionary epistemologically
* The broader transformations of the world by exploration, science, religion, trade, and the arts
* The postmodernism reaction to/against modernism
* Why Kant is important as inheritor of failing empiricist and rationalist traditions
* Rousseau’s collectivism and egalitarianism and his hostility to property rights
* Echoes of Rousseau in Foucault and whether postmodernism is more post-Marxist or post-Rousseauian
* Hegel’s speculative metaphysics as secularized Christianity and his embrace of contradiction
* Post-Kantian irrationalisms
* Marx’s philosophical system as the context for his economics and politics
* Major postmodernists’ roots in the far Left
* The relevance of the Frankfurt School
* How philosophers’ negative conclusions were taken over by other disciplines such as sociology, literary criticism, race/class/gender departments
* The differences between Existentialism and Postmodernism
Here’s a direct Youtube link.