Texts in Philosophy — early 2018 additions

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Cesare Bonesana, “Torture” (1764). Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928). Osama bin Laden, “Letter to the Americans” (2002). Michael Levin, “On Torture” (1982). Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Greek State” (1871). Charles Ogletree, “The Case for Affirmative Action” (2015). Thomas

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“Fascist” and “Nazi” discussion at the Vin Armani Show

What are Fascism and Nazism, historically and philosophically? What are their connections to Benito Mussolini, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler? And do those words describe today’s Alt-Right and Antifa members? Vin Armani’s one-hour interview with me appears at 60:10:35 of this two-hour show: Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis. Mussolini and Gentile’s The Doctrine

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Stanley Fish in Explaining Postmodernism

“Deconstruction,” Stanley Fish confesses happily, “relieves me of the obligation to be right … and demands only that I be interesting.” For the implications of Fish’s quotation for postmodernism, see p. 11 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated page.

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