A Fascinating Tour Through Philosophy

I feel enriched with a new perspective by reading this book. Kudos to the author!

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Genial!

Notwendige Lektüre für jeden der seinen Teil dazu beitragen möchte den Untergang von Tugenden wie Wahrheit und Freiheit und damit ein erneutes Massaker wie z.B. in der UDSSR zu verhindern.
Also notwendige Lektüre für jeden wenigstens halbwegs guten Menschen mit etwas Verantwortungsgefühl.

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Outstanding review

Provides the historical background to understand postmodernism, academically grounded but quite accessible. Also explores the contemporary debates taking a clear and critical position. The speaker isn’t as attractive as the author is, but a good performance in any case.

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Not useful as an introduction - to say the least

Please check out "A Critique of Stephen Hicks' Explaining Postmodernism" on Youtube first. The author is a political hack and doesn't care about truth and objectiveness. Putting this on audible is the equivalent of right wing fake news. I strongly recommend classifying non-fiction books like this with the label "fiction" or "unverified" or whatever. The way how it's sold is highly misleading.

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Ideological rubbish

The first three chapter were amazing and seemed revelatory. Philosophical history was suddenly comprehensibly sifted into two elegant streams, Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. And then came chapter 4. The author suddenly changed tone and asserted essentially that capitalism had won some great historical struggle, capitalist nations had become happy and prosperous, and "socialism", without the least differentiation as to time or place, had broken down into despotism, poverty and social collapse and was over. "And thus history came to a ." as the saying goes. He then asserts that "leftists", some sort of undefined yet monolithic and homogeneous group, are nasty and have nothing left to offer but ad hominem attacks and vitriol. Then he tries to switch back to the scholarly voice and ask why this laughably grotesque generalization might be true. Sorry. Suddenly the elegance of the first three chapters became deeply suspect as merely a set-up for an ideological rant. After checking Hick's wikipedia page, I found my feeling confirmed. This book has been accused of outright fabrication through selective and misleading quotations. I had to turn it off and will be diligently trying to replace everything I thought I was learning with some real scholarship. Don't touch this with a ten-foot pole. Props to the narrator, though. He was thoroughly pleasant throughout and tackled some really tough material with great sensitivity.

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