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Arabic translation of Explaining Postmodernism forthcoming

I’m happy to announce that translators Ayoub Salhi and Anouar El Mekki have finished their translation of my book into Arabic. The resulting work should be published later this year. Details forthcoming. Meanwhile, here is the information page about all of the translations, editions, and reviews of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to […]

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Philosophy’s longest sentences — Kant upgrade

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In our ongoing contest to find the longest sentence in Philosophy, careful reader Matthias Brinkmann alerts me to a new candidate — this 286-worder from Kant’s Practical Philosophy: “Now, if ends must first be given to us, in relation to which alone the concept of perfection (whether internal in ourselves or external in God) can

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Texts in Philosophy — late 2017 additions

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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Frédéric Bastiat, “A Petition from the Candlemakers about Unfair Competition from the Sun” (1845). Marilyn Frye, “Oppression”, from The Politics of Reality. (1983). Mother Teresa, excerpt “On Prayer”, from No Greater Love (1987). Dualism and Naturalism quotations from Martin Luther, St. Paul, 1

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Ebenezer Scrooge as an Aristotelian Hero

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[My annual re-posting for this season’s festivities.] We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has generated an astonishing variety of interpretations, and as with most rich tales the interpretations often tell us as much about the interpreter as the original story. The legend of Robin Hood

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R. Kevin Hill on philosophy and Nietzsche’s The Will to Power

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An interview with philosopher R. Kevin Hill, translator of the new edition of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power, published by Penguin in 2017.

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The Two Births of Philosophy

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I need to write this up, but here’s my working hypothesis: *Metaphysically*, philosophy was born with Thales and the Milesians. *Epistemologically*, it was born with Parmenides and the Eleatics. The Milesian school began around 600 BCE on the coast of Asia minor. The Eleatic school began around 500 BCE about 1100 kilometers west in the

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Postmodernism is part of the Western canon: interviewed by Jordan Alexander Hill

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From Jordan Hill’s introduction to our one-hour podcast: “I’d like to introduce our next guest, one of my favorite living philosophers and the author of the great book *Explaining Postmodernism*. In Episode One of this podcast, we talked about postmodernism as an antagonist to the project of liberalism and Western civilization. My next guest, Stephen

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Camus and Sisyphus [This Week in Class]

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As the semester draws to a close for my Introduction to Philosophy course, we are discussing the meaning of life. Up today is the Myth of Sisyphyus, so below is my video-discussion of it. Here also is a PDF of some of the associated reading excerpts on what makes life meaningful — or whether it

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