Word play: “Beware of swallowing Postmodernism ― it will give you Theorrhea.” ― Stephen R. C. Hicks, author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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“This is not a book review but a flat-out endorsement. Stephen R. C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism is a great but very scary read.”
Professor Tibor Machan’s review of *Explaining Postmodernism* Read More »
Leighton Woodhouse wrote this perceptive piece focused on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume I. Woodhouse is right that sometimes Foucault offers only descriptive accounts of constitutive power relations. (Like in HS, though even in HS he does not consistently stick to that.) But that’s not the only Foucauldian text. Foucault also describes himself as a
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Via Ars Europa: “In 1826, the sculptor John Graham Lough returned to London and took up residence in Burleigh Street, above a greengrocer’s shop was he started his Milo of Croton, inspired by Michelangelo’s masterpieces. Lough became obsessed with his work, living on only bread and water. Soon the piece became too big for the
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Professor Fletcher on Lacan’s anti-humanism: “What you’re doing is like a spider: you’re making a very delicate web without any human reality in it … All this metaphysics is not necessary. The diagram was very interesting, but it doesn’t seem to have any connection with the reality of our actions, with eating, sexual intercourse, and
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For those interested in Friedrich Nietzsche and his connections to Thomas Mann, André Gide, D. H. Lawrence, Ayn Rand: Auburn University professor Roderick Long’s course on Nietzsche and Modern Literature is online with a treasure trove of readings, pictures, and musical clips. Related: My table with sources on Nietzsche and Rand: 124 Similarities and Differences.
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“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose.
Tyranny of the majority — American versus English versus French versus German versions Read More »
Meanwhile, the cost of (unsubsidized) goods has gone down.
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