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Pocket Guide to Postmodernism
- De: Andrew Colgan PhD, Stephen R. C. Hicks PhD
- Narrado por: Scott R Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
In this Pocket Guide to Postmodernism, author Andrew Colgan, PhD, explores the fundamental premises and ideas of postmodernism by summarizing and interpreting Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen Hicks, PhD. In his discussion of the philosophical foundations of this intellectual movement, Colgan presents a concise guide into the views of one of the most influential schools of the 20th century and its real-life consequences.
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Origins and Evolution of Postmodernism
- De Jose en 05-20-22
- Pocket Guide to Postmodernism
- De: Andrew Colgan PhD, Stephen R. C. Hicks PhD
- Narrado por: Scott R Smith
Excellent overview
Revisado: 11-27-23
Parents seeking a sane, well-rounded academic environment for their high school graduate son or daughter would do well to follow the admonitions outlined in this book, which examines the causes of “wokeness” in present society. Have your child major in STEM subjects; or let them attend a technical college. At all costs, shun humanities studies as the colleges and universities receiving financial aid from the government are forced to tow the postmodernist line.
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The French Revolution, Volume 1
- The Bastille
- De: Thomas Carlyle
- Narrado por: Robert Bethune
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 38
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Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of Thomas Carlyle himself.
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A Great Disappointment
- De Charles en 12-28-09
- The French Revolution, Volume 1
- The Bastille
- De: Thomas Carlyle
- Narrado por: Robert Bethune
Timely, significant narrative.
Revisado: 11-14-22
A comprehensive warning to the free world against leftist extremism . . . made more powerful through Carlyle's mastery of English.
"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors." — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Smiles wrote in his book on self-reliance entitled "Self-Help":
"The accidental destruction of Sir Isaac Newton’s papers, by his little dog ‘Diamond’ upsetting a lighted taper upon his desk, by which the elaborate calculations of many years were in a moment destroyed, is a well-known anecdote, and need not be repeated: it is said that the loss caused the philosopher such profound grief that it seriously injured his health, and impaired his understanding. An accident of a somewhat similar kind happened to the MS. of Mr. Carlyle’s first volume of his ‘French Revolution.’ He had lent the MS. to a literary neighbour to peruse. By some mischance, it had been left lying on the parlour floor, and become forgotten. Weeks ran on, and the historian sent for his work, the printers being loud for “copy.” Inquiries were made, and it was found that the maid-of-all-work, finding what she conceived to be a bundle of waste paper on the floor, had used it to light the kitchen and parlour fires with! Such was the answer returned to Mr. Carlyle; and his feelings may be imagined. There was, however, no help for him but to set resolutely to work to re-write the book; and he turned to and did it. He had no draft, and was compelled to rake up from his memory facts, ideas, and expressions, which had been long since dismissed. The composition of the book in the first instance had been a work of pleasure; the re-writing of it a second time was one of pain and anguish almost beyond belief. That he persevered and finished the volume under such circumstances, affords an instance of determination of purpose which has seldom been surpassed."
Another quote from Smiles: “In literature,” said Lord Dudley, “I am fond of confining myself to the best company, which consists chiefly of my old acquaintance, with whom I am desirous of becoming more intimate; and I suspect that nine times out of ten it is more profitable, if not more agreeable, to read an old book over again, than to read a new one for the first time.”
"Edmund Stone said to the Duke of Argyle, in answer to his grace’s inquiry how he, a poor gardener’s boy, had contrived to be able to read Newton’s Principia in Latin, 'One needs only to know the twenty-four letters of the alphabet in order to learn everything else that one wishes. Application and perseverance, and the diligent improvement of opportunities, will do the rest.' "
The self-educated Fowell Buxton, who was apparently "learning-disabled" as a child, eventually persevered in mastering that arts of reading and writing who succeeded Wilberforce in the House of Commons, had this to say about reading: in general: “Never to begin a book without finishing it;” “never to consider a book finished until it is mastered;” and “to study everything with the whole mind.”
Buxton's advice is especially applicable when studying the great masters and mistresses' of pre-twentieth-century English literature, including Thomas Carlyle. Unfortunately, to fully appreciate Carlyle without a classical education (Tacitus, Herodotus, Plutarch, Cincinnatus, Thucydides, etc.), having only a typical 21st-century American public-school/college "education", is a bit like trying to learn Euclidean geometry without having mastered the multiplication table.
Carlyle's 'French Revolution' is a book that requires whole-mindedness, a significant level of commitment; as such has its place among the few masterpieces of inspired historical narrative and is an ever-revitalizing antidote to the plodding, sententiousness of Procrustean "historians" like Marx or Zinn, whose rise in popularity is inversely proportional to the depth of the down of the people.
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