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Explaining postmodernism, skepticism and socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, Stephen R.C. Hicks

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Explaining postmodernism, skepticism and socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, Stephen R.C. Hicks

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-211) and index

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Explaining postmodernism

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Stephen R.C. Hicks

Sub title

skepticism and socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

Summary

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 and early 21st centuries. 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. -- from back cover

Table Of Contents

What postmodernism is -- The counter-enlightenment attack on reason -- The twentieth-century collapse of reason -- The climate of collectivism -- The crisis of socialism -- Postmodern strategy

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Skepticism and socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

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