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Explaining Postmodernism (Expanded Edition)

Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

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Explaining Postmodernism (Expanded Edition)

By: Stephen R. C. Hicks
Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
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Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century.

Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world? Why do they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences? Why has a significant portion of the political left - the same left that traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all, and optimism - now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism?

Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy.

This expanded edition includes two additional essays by Stephen Hicks: "Free Speech and Postmodernism" and "From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly".

©2004 Stephen Hicks (P)2018 Stephen Hicks Philosophy Social Sciences Metaphysical Capitalism Liberalism Socialism Social justice Morality
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It covers a thorough history and contextualised analysis of Post-modernism. I'm recommending it to every to understand the development of our current political discourse.

Deep and accessible!

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Bursts the bubble of the amorphous slimebag that is postmodernism simply by telling its history.

Detailed survey of the history of the development

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Post modernity is characterised by pomposity, incoherence and hatred.
Hicks carefully and adroitly teases out this statement.

Finally Hicks unravels post modern absurdity

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A brilliant unveiling of Post-Modernism up to its most contemporary tactics. if we are to understand anything about all that surrounds us, we must get a serious grip on this pervasive resentful ideology. I began with some limited knowledge, and after a (necessary) fairly dense start, I found Hicks extremely digestible. This book should feature in every University and thinking person's library.

brilliant, vital

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More of a intellectual analysis and historical background of post modern critical theory.
A little difficult for me as, I am not a philosophically knowledgeable individual. However a reader who persists and reviews the concepts and players is rewarded with a bit more insight into the madness engulfing, in my opinion the social, political and the individual.

New terror

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