Culture Wars 2.0 and my themes: The Meanings of Life — After Postmodernism — Justice Warriors. Hosted by True Arrow Events. Meanwhile, the Australian edition of my Explaining Postmodernism book was the publisher’s #3 bestseller for 2019.
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My livestream The Religion Course — concludes this Wednesday at thinkspot. What is religion? Is it true? Is it good? If neither necessarily, is it useful? Does the meaning of life depend upon religion? For example, here are some candidates from major intellectuals: “The essence of religion consists in the feeling of absolute dependence.” (Theologian
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Professor Mario Rizzo presents his new book Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The book is co-authored with Glen Whitman. I love the cover image. Rizzo is a professor in the Economics Department at New York University and a deep-thinking scholar. Here’s his one-hour lecture at Brown University on the book’s themes:
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Philosopher Marc Champagne has published what I believe to be the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and liked it and contributed a back-cover blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. General Friedrich von Bernhardi, excerpts from Germany and the Next War (1911). C. S. Lewis. “Social Morality”, Book 3, Chapter 3 of Mere Christianity (1952). [On Christian ethics, leftism, socialism, money, and the charging of interest.] George Orwell, “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy
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Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal published his extended review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis in December 2019. I like this part: “His writing talent is praiseworthy: clarity, historical competency, willingness to engage opponents with charity. There are occasions throughout the listening of his audiobook where one is moved by way of his descriptions of Nietzschean philosophy, a
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I cannot read this, but I am happy to know it exists: شرح ما بعد الحداثة: الشكوكية و الإشتراكية من روسو إلى فوكو Ayoub Salhi and Anouar Elmekki have produced and published this Arabic translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism
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