“The normal fuck,” writes Andrea Dworkin, “by a normal man is taken to be an act of invasion and ownership undertaken in a mode of predation.” For more on the implications of Dworkin’s claim for postmodernism, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated […]
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[John Enright translated this short piece by María Marty summarizing her interview with me. The video of the 12-minute interview follows.] Stephen Hicks is the author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault and Nietzsche and the Nazis. A Personal View, which have been translated into several languages, including Spanish. Hicks also
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[This lecture is Part 1 of the Entrepreneurship and Values series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Dr. Alexei Marcoux on Defining Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship as an Essentially Contested Concept” I want to talk today about entrepreneurship and, in particular, its status as an essentially contested concept. By an essentially contested concept,
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English with Spanish subtitles here: Full interview here:
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Being is nothing. “Nothing,” wrote Martin Heidegger, “not merely provides the conceptual opposite of what-is but is also an original part of essence.” That may not make sense logically, but: “Authentic speaking about nothing always remains extraordinary. It cannot be vulgarized. It dissolves if it is placed in the cheap acid of merely logical intelligence.”
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The American Philosophical Association’s Central Division meets in Chicago this year at the Palmer House Hilton. On February 23, the American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society has a panel based on my two journal articles (here and here) arguing for and against liberalism: Topic: Arguments For and Against Liberalism Chair: Shawn Klein (Arizona
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Romance is in the air, thus my annual reposting of my round-up of philosophers talking to their sweethearts – collected from conversations overheard at smoky cafés, college libraries, mountain caves, and seminar rooms the world over. The Aristotelian: “I wish to marry you, for I know that my happiness, both of body and soul, is
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She was skeptical, but Mariana went with a friend to a multi-denominational religious convention. A Christian healer laid his hands on her and exclaimed, “In the name of Jesus Christ our Savior, you will walk today!” “But I’m not paralyzed,” Mariana said politely, turning away. Then a rabbi laid his hands on her head and
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