“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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