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From modern to postmodern art and beyond part 1 by stephen hicks
Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks (born August 19, 1960) is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.
Contents
- From modern to postmodern art and beyond part 1 by stephen hicks
- Understanding postmodernism the 3 stages to today s insanity stephen hicks
- Biography
- Publications
- References
Understanding postmodernism the 3 stages to today s insanity stephen hicks
Biography
Hicks earned his B.A. (Honours, 1981) and M.A. degrees from the University of Guelph, and his Ph.D. (1991) from Indiana University, Bloomington. His doctoral thesis was a defense of foundationalism.
Publications
Hicks is the author of two books and a documentary. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004; expanded edition, 2011; Portuguese translation, 2011; Serbo-Croatian translation, 2011; Persian translation, 2012; Spanish translation, 2014, Swedish translation, 2014, Polish translation, 2016) argues that postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far left of the political spectrum developed in reaction to the failure of socialism and communism.
His documentary and book Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham's Razor, 2006, 2010; Polish translation, 2014; Persian translation, 2014, Ukrainian translation, 2016, Spanish translation, 2016) is an examination of the ideological and philosophical roots of National Socialism, particularly how Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas were used, and in some cases misused, by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to justify their beliefs and practices. This was released in 2006 as a video documentary and then in 2010 as a book.
Additionally, Hicks has published articles and essays on a range of subjects, including free speech in academia, the history and development of modern art, Ayn Rand's Objectivism, business ethics and the philosophy of education, including a series of YouTube lectures.
Hicks is also the co-editor, with David Kelley, of a critical thinking textbook, The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis (W. W. Norton & Co., second edition, 1998).