I love that these lectures are available. I went to college in the early 90s when postmodernism was very much something the elite academics talked about constantly. I was shocked in recent years that these theories had escaped academia and were being touted as being fact. These were clearly theoretical ideas back then. May I suggest that you make the volume louder? I’m barely able to hear their voices. Thanks
Sorry, but the guest speakers didn't actually answer this evening's thesis "HOW has Postmodernism Impacted Truth and Trust in Higher Ed?" I didn't learn anything about: 1) What is postmodernism? 2) Anything relevant or meaningful about the philosophers who espoused postmodernism; 3) HOW postmodernist thinking is a historical contributing factor to the woke leftist politics that have eroded truth and trust in higher education. This talk was not engaging or lively or inspiring at all. With all due respect to the tenured professors who travelled from the US to speak to us Canadians, their presentation is precisely the contributing reason higher education academia is dying, and did nothing as higher ed profs to restore truth or trust in higher ed last night.
@@goodgrief888comments like this are unhelpful. He was genuinely curious, and to interpret their intention to be bad faith is antithetical to the mission of HxA imo.
I completely disagree, but I can see how you could get that impression. I'll give you my interpretation and you can tell me if that made sense. I'll try to argue against your points. 1) He did explain that postmodernism isn't a cohesive ideology, rather a collection of separate ideas with the only commonality being it's focus to expose how the claims that were being made in previous eras were under false pretences. 2) He explained that thinkers like Fucault and Derrida came from a rich philosophical tradition, and as I said before that they were exposing structuralism as false. 3) Postmodernism contributed to what is being seen today in that a lot of people who came after reinterpreted what those thinkers said in a way that was missing a lot of context, so it's not the fault of postmodernism but rather the interpretation that caused the chaos. He also said that higher Ed doesn't have the solutions, so the solutions need to come from outside.
@@micahgmiranda If you’ve read any Foucault at all you can see that the roots of this current intellectual crisis are firmly in Foucault and Derrida, and Lyotard
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I love that these lectures are available. I went to college in the early 90s when postmodernism was very much something the elite academics talked about constantly. I was shocked in recent years that these theories had escaped academia and were being touted as being fact. These were clearly theoretical ideas back then.
May I suggest that you make the volume louder? I’m barely able to hear their voices. Thanks
Sorry, but the guest speakers didn't actually answer this evening's thesis "HOW has Postmodernism Impacted Truth and Trust in Higher Ed?" I didn't learn anything about: 1) What is postmodernism? 2) Anything relevant or meaningful about the philosophers who espoused postmodernism; 3) HOW postmodernist thinking is a historical contributing factor to the woke leftist politics that have eroded truth and trust in higher education. This talk was not engaging or lively or inspiring at all. With all due respect to the tenured professors who travelled from the US to speak to us Canadians, their presentation is precisely the contributing reason higher education academia is dying, and did nothing as higher ed profs to restore truth or trust in higher ed last night.
Sounds like you want to just listen to a repeat of what Jordan Peterson has been saying.
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@@goodgrief888comments like this are unhelpful. He was genuinely curious, and to interpret their intention to be bad faith is antithetical to the mission of HxA imo.
I completely disagree, but I can see how you could get that impression. I'll give you my interpretation and you can tell me if that made sense. I'll try to argue against your points. 1) He did explain that postmodernism isn't a cohesive ideology, rather a collection of separate ideas with the only commonality being it's focus to expose how the claims that were being made in previous eras were under false pretences. 2) He explained that thinkers like Fucault and Derrida came from a rich philosophical tradition, and as I said before that they were exposing structuralism as false. 3) Postmodernism contributed to what is being seen today in that a lot of people who came after reinterpreted what those thinkers said in a way that was missing a lot of context, so it's not the fault of postmodernism but rather the interpretation that caused the chaos. He also said that higher Ed doesn't have the solutions, so the solutions need to come from outside.
@@micahgmiranda If you’ve read any Foucault at all you can see that the roots of this current intellectual crisis are firmly in Foucault and Derrida, and Lyotard