Postmodern Philosophy and Beyond w/Stephen Hicks | Interview with Metamodern Spirituality

This conversation between Brendan Graham Dempsey of Metamodern Spirituality and Dr. Hicks ranges over the metaphysical and epistemological positions and ideas about human nature and values in the premodern, modern and postmodern eras.

Brendan Graham Dempsey explores the period after postmodernism, with a focus on creatively answering the meaning crisis of contemporary society. More information can be found at    / @brendangrahamdempsey  .

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
02:00 The shift into modernity
04:26 The first rupture-premodern to modern
06:16 Analysis of the rupture
07:37 The metaphysics is challenged
08:37 The epistemology is challenged
11:33 The nature of human being
14:49 The values begin to shift
20:28 How do we get to the postmodern
23:21 Postmodern take on metaphysics
27:25 Postmodern take on epistemology
29:09 Postmodern take on human nature
31:35 Postmodern take on values
34:07 Do the postmodern critiques get anything right about modernism?
44:10 Is there a degree to which postmodern ideas can be integrated with the ideas of modernism?
47:42 Metamodern formulations
51:17 The decline of postmodernism?

Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

Other links:

Explaining Postmodernism audiobook:    • Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen H...  
Nietzsche and the Nazis audiobook:    • Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R....  

Playlists:

Education Theory:    • Education Theory  
Entrepreneurship and Values:    • Entrepreneurship and Values Series  
Nietzsche:    • Nietzsche