The seeds of woke culture | Dangerous Thoughts podcast with Stephen Hicks

This conversation with Carter at Unsafe Space took place on 12/15/2021.

Timestamps:

00:00 The Rise of Woke Culture
01:24 Introduction of Stephen Hicks
02:22 Describe the rise of woke culture
09:50 Underlying assumptions about liberal culture
13:40 Let's look at the Enlightenment
18:58 The Counter-Enlightenment and Rousseau
26:08 Immanuel Kant. Enlightenment Thinker?
31:00 The divorce of reason from the correspondence to reality
35:37 Moving on from Kant-Schopenhauer
39:34 A religious direction-Kierkegaard
41:30 Marcuse and the postmodernists
42:10 Critical theorists vs. postmodernists
47:15 Turning to Freud
52:04 Enter the Frankfurt School
57:45 Politics requires a metaphysical framework
1:02:12 Enter the postmodernists
1:07:10 Are we left with rhetorical power plays?



Stephen R. C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society.

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