Explaining Postmodernism (in two parts) Second half | Stephen Hicks

This audiobook edition of Chapters 4-6 of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author.

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Timestamps:
CHAPTER FOUR: The Climate of Collectivism
00:00:00 From postmodern epistemology to postmodern politics
00:04:13 The argument of the next three chapters
00:09:39 Responding to socialism’s crisis of theory and evidence
00:14:43 Back to Rousseau
00:16:43 Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment
00:25:03 Rousseau’s collectivism and statism
00:34:15 Rousseau and the French Revolution
00:42:10 Counter-Enlightenment Politics: Right and Left collectivism
00:46:30 Kant on collectivism and war
00:54:03 Herder on multicultural relativism
01:00:32 Fichte on education as socialization
01:15:07 Hegel on worshipping the state
01:23:44 From Hegel to the twentieth century
01:26:33 Right versus Left collectivism in the twentieth century
01:36:29 The Rise of National Socialism: Who are the real socialists?

CHAPTER FIVE: The Crisis of Socialism
01:42:41 Marx and waiting for Godot
01:44:49 Three failed predictions
01:48:08 Socialism needs an aristocracy: Lenin, Mao, and the lesson of the German Social Democrats
01:54:39 Good news for socialism: depression and war
01:57:33 Bad news: liberal capitalism rebounds
02:00:28 Worse news: Khrushchev’s revelations and Hungary
02:08:58 Responding to the crisis: change socialism’s ethical standard
02:11:03 From need to equality
02:15:28 From 'Wealth is good' to 'Wealth is bad'
02:22:37 Responding to the crisis: change socialism’s epistemology
02:28:47 Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: Marx plus Freud, or oppression plus repression
02:44:02 The rise and fall of left terrorism
02:51:46 From the collapse of the New Left to postmodernism

CHAPTER SIX: Postmodern Strategy
02:56:23 Connecting epistemology to politics
02:58:20 Masks and rhetoric in language
03:05:53 When theory clashes with fact
03:07:52 Kierkegaardian postmodernism
03:13:50 Reversing Thrasymachus
03:16:29 Using contradictory discourses as a political strategy
03:20:27 Machiavellian postmodernism
03:21:55 Machiavellian rhetorical discourses
03:23:53 Deconstruction as an educational strategy
03:30:18 Ressentiment postmodernism
03:33:35 Nietzschean ressentiment
03:37:49 Foucault and Derrida on the end of man
03:45:03 Ressentiment strategy
03:49:29 Post-postmodernism

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[RebelInTheF.D.G]

What's with the algorithm anymore? I fell asleep to Nukes Top 5 and woke up here? Yesterday it was a livestream from the space station.

[nuqwestr]

Critical Deconstruction, yes. Autocratic Destruction, no.

[lucaswallo]

I fell asleep and woke up with this playing lmao. That's so weird haha.

[kimihiro]

Lol woke up to this thanks to the algorithm. Very fascinating!

[jerb]

We are equal to bacteria in moral value. Just take the compliment.

[nadirdaoudbrikci]

I woke up to a different video and I am still listening

[haroldjanser]

Hick's so important puts everything so Well

[canisfamiliaris]

Dwarkin was right to hate on men for watching sadistic porn.

[cutthroatfinch]

This seems outdated to me now, seeing as how recent years have undercut so many of his arguments. Take for example his commenting on the shifting definition of socialism, and its going from 'to each according to his needs.. etc" to "in order to make every one more equal since some have much more." Now we have increased famine, ecological disasters, inflation, plague, and on and on and "to each according to their need" seems more relevant than ever.

[cheri]

Thank you again, Mr Hicks. Maintain the facts. I will listen to you over and over again. What a brain you have!!

[nigelralphmurphy]

I deserve a medal for listening to this from start to finish, but it'll take a couple of days for me to recover my sanity. This man is bonkers! How is he a staff member at a reputable university?

[path]

imagine only presenting capitalism vs communism... as if there are only two options

[keepitflowyartem]

What a terrible book and terrible explanation of something you don't understand. You have to be completely unaware about philosophy to not realise the bullshit MrHicks is spouting. Postmodernism is everything I don't like...lool

[danuta]

This is a problematic reading of rationality and epistemology, and that flows to a less than rigorous reading of poststructuralism (which Hicks doesn't appear to mention) and postmodernism. I am not at all sure he has an astute understanding of the philosophical frame of modernism, either. Rather, in an attempt to make a political point about the problems of ideological relativism, he undermines his own scholarship. His reading of 20th Century philosophers of science lacks an understanding of context for their explorations of scientific practices. In no way do these discussions of epistemology and philosophy of science privilege "emotion and feeling" over "rationality".