One morning a mother called into her son’s bedroom: “Wake up, it’s time to go to school!” The son grumbled, “I don’t want to go.” “Tell me two reasons why you don’t want to,” the mother said. “The kids hate me,” the son said, “and the teachers hate me too!” “Oh come on,” the mother […]
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“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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The advance tickets are sold out for Friday’s talk at the University of British Columbia, but here’s a link to the event site. I’ll be speaking on themes out of my Explaining Postmodernism with special application to today’s campus wars.
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In his “Letter to the Americans,” bin Laden issued a call for morality: “We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gamblings, and trading with interest.” Americans’ failure to cleanse themselves of these sins is one of the justifications bin Laden
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Some time ago I was lambasted for being a Marxist professor who indoctrinates his students: Now the exact same video prompts the opposite reaction: Hence my new slogan: “Marxists and anti-Marxists of the world, pay attention!”
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Theologian Richard Niebuhr called Friedrich Schleiermacher “the Kant of modern Protestantism.” Here is Schleiermacher himself: “The essence of religion is *the feeling of absolute dependence*. I repudiated rational thought in favour of a theology of feeling.” For more on Schleiermacher and his contributions to postmodernism, see p. 57 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau
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My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The protesting students are neither ‘snowflakes’ who can’t take the heat nor ‘delicate flowers’ whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn
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My “Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question, especially the sort of rationalist worldview that emerged in the seventeenth and
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