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Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism [Explaining Postmodernism]

Chart 1.3: Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Post-modernism Pre-modernism Modernism Post-modernism Metaphysics Realism: Super-naturalism Realism: Naturalism Anti-realism Epistemology Mysticism and/or faith Objectivism: Experience and reason Social subjectivism Human Nature Original Sin; Subject to God’s will Tabula rasa and autonomy Social construction and conflict Ethics Collectivism: altruism Individualism Collectivism: egalitarianism Politics & Economics Feudalism Liberal […]

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Marx as proto-postmodernist — revealing quotation

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On the beautiful usefulness of dialectic, as Marx expressed in a letter to Engels about a predictive claim he’d made: “It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to

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Crypto on Peterson and Hicks on Pomo and Neo-Marxism

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A very good three-part essay by Crypto on (1) Postmodernism, (2) Neo-Marxism, and (3) their intersection. I don’t know who the authors are, but I appreciate their clear and concise summary. Their statement of purpose in writing the essay: “this essay was not written with the intention of expressing agreement or disagreement with Peterson’s conceptualisation

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Fukuyama on postmodernism and the end of history

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From an interview of Francis Fukyama by Evan Goldstein: Q. You have an unusual background for a political scientist. You majored in classics at Cornell, then did graduate work in comparative literature at Yale, where you studied with Paul de Man. Later you spent time in Paris sitting in on classes with Roland Barthes and

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Blanshard on the writing styles of Kant, Hegel, and others

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“Clearness and vividness in writing often turn on mere specificity. To say that Major André was hanged is clear and definite; to say that he as killed is less definite, because you do not know in what way he was killed; to say that he died is still more indefinite because you do not even

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Cato Unbound article on Kant translated into Portuguese

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My article, “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” (English) was translated by the indefatigable Matheus Pacini into Portuguese: “KANT TEM LUGAR NO LIBERALISMO CLÁSSICO?” From the description: “Stephen R. C. Hicks argues that if our case for liberty comes from a mysterious other realm, then perhaps we have no case at all. He

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Sexism or Racism? The Best Quick Responses

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Self-esteem is 90% of the battle.

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John Gray in Explaining Postmodernism

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British philosopher John Gray claims: “We live today amid the dim ruins of the Enlightenment project, which was the ruling project of the modern period.” For more on the implications of Gray’s pessimistic assessment for postmodernism, see p. 23 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is

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