CHAPTER FOUR: The Climate of Collectivism 00:00:00 From postmodern epistemology to postmodern politics 00:04:13 The argument of the next three chapters 00:09:39 Responding to socialism’s crisis of theory and evidence 00:14:43 Back to Rousseau 00:16:43 Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment 00:25:03 Rousseau’s collectivism and statism 00:34:15 Rousseau and the French Revolution 00:42:10 Counter-Enlightenment Politics: Right and Left collectivism 00:46:30 Kant on collectivism and war 00:54:03 Herder on multicultural relativism 01:00:32 Fichte on education as socialization 01:15:07 Hegel on worshipping the state 01:23:44 From Hegel to the twentieth century 01:26:33 Right versus Left collectivism in the twentieth century 01:36:29 The Rise of National Socialism: Who are the real socialists? CHAPTER FIVE: The Crisis of Socialism 01:42:41 Marx and waiting for Godot 01:44:49 Three failed predictions 01:48:08 Socialism needs an aristocracy: Lenin, Mao, and the lesson of the German Social Democrats 01:54:39 Good news for socialism: depression and war 01:57:33 Bad news: liberal capitalism rebounds 02:00:28 Worse news: Khrushchev’s revelations and Hungary 02:08:58 Responding to the crisis: change socialism’s ethical standard 02:11:03 From need to equality 02:15:28 From ‘Wealth is good’ to ‘Wealth is bad’ 02:22:37 Responding to the crisis: change socialism’s epistemology 02:28:47 Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: Marx plus Freud, or oppression plus repression 02:44:02 The rise and fall of left terrorism 02:51:46 From the collapse of the New Left to postmodernism CHAPTER SIX: Postmodern Strategy 02:56:23 Connecting epistemology to politics 02:58:20 Masks and rhetoric in language 03:05:53 When theory clashes with fact 03:07:52 Kierkegaardian postmodernism 03:13:50 Reversing Thrasymachus 03:16:29 Using contradictory discourses as a political strategy 03:20:27 Machiavellian postmodernism 03:21:55 Machiavellian rhetorical discourses 03:23:53 Deconstruction as an educational strategy 03:30:18 Ressentiment postmodernism 03:33:35 Nietzschean ressentiment 03:37:49 Foucault and Derrida on the end of man 03:45:03 Ressentiment strategy 03:49:29 Post-postmodernism
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