“This explains the harsh nature of much postmodern rhetoric. The regular deployments of ad hominem, the setting up of straw men, and the regular attempts to silence opposing voices are all logical consequences of the postmodern epistemology of language. Stanley… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave reasonably. Having… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Marxism was and is a class analysis, pitting economic classes against each other in a zero-sum competition. In that competition, the stronger parties would… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Deconstruction as an educational strategy Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in Socialist Review,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Yet mere membership as a matter of duty is not enough for Hegel, given the grandeur of the state’s divine historical purpose: “One must… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation of the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies the leap… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Given the pervasiveness of capitalism’s domination, the revolutionary vanguard can come only from those outcast intellectuals—especially among the younger students[282]—those who are able to… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early 1960s: the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology since Kant.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“From the postmodern anti-realist metaphysics and anti-reason epistemology, the postmodern social consequences follow almost directly. Once we set aside reality and reason, what are… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“The empirical evidence has been much harder on socialism. Economically, in practice the capitalist nations are increasingly productive and prosperous, with no end in… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden, and even… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Morally and politically, in practice every liberal capitalist country has a solid record for being humane, for by and large respecting rights and freedoms,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists could believe… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Kunst ist Scheisse (Art is shit) was, fittingly, the motto of the Dada movement. Duchamp’s urinal was the fitting symbol. Everything is waste to… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
