Explaining Postmodernism & Immanuel Kant's Frontal Assault on Classical Culture | Stephen Hicks

Stephen Hicks is a professor of philosophy at Rockford University, U.S. and the author of several books, including the best-seller Explaining Postmodernism, which details the philosophical roots of today’s cultural climate. Mr. Hicks highlights Immanuel Kant's role in undermining objectivity and reason, showing how his ideas remain the corner stone of Post Modernism and "Fine Art" to this day. Giving an overview of Kant's aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology, the conversation further explains how this cocktail necessarily cripples classically minded people: If we cannot know reality then the act of painting it becomes naive. If nothing is objective then we cannot trust the rules of any craft and if nothing is universal then we become estranged from the mythic perspective. You can listen to Hicks' lecture How Art Became Ugly or check out his appearances on various podcasts including his own Open College Podcast. His official YouTube-channel is CEE Channel (Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship). 👍✨ Support our show and get access to more than 200 exclusive posts: https://patreon.com/caveofapelles/ Chapter markers: 00:30 Introducing Stephen Hicks 01:13 "Explaining Postmodernism" & the Enlightenment 04:59 The "Counter-Enlightenment" defense of irrationality 08:54 Dissolving reason and the individual 12:46 Postmodern philosophers 15:58 Arthur Danto, Clement Greenberg & Jackson Pollock 17:35 Kant's Metaphysics: we cannot know reality as it is 23:34 No voluptuous women, no muscular men 26:12 Turning concepts against themselves 27:07 Kant's Epistemology and the devaluation of classical painting 33:31 Quotation mark bonanza 35:30 Munch's green sky 40:01 Modernistic art: a grooming ground for Kantianism 41:26 The representational project must be abandoned 43:21 Kant's Aesthetics: the sublime 49:15 The sublime lets us access "real reality" 50:50 Romantic art and the sublime 52:59 Anti everything & the greatest compliment ever! 55:20 Kant undercuts the possibility of being classical 56:38 Jack Unterweger: a mass murderer genius? 59:58 Expressionism and Cubism: products of Kant? 1:03:08 Originality hinders your development 1:07:03 Aesthetic indifference negates the eternal perspective 1:10:59 Thou shalt not make any "graven image" 1:14:44 Disintegration and destruction of classical values 1:19:23 "Spirituality" or "reality"? 1:22:35 Read Kant to break out of the modernist box 1:30:05 The painter who stopped painting after reading Kant 1:30:33 Aristotle is the greatest philosophical genius of all time This episode featured Stephen Hicks and Jan-Ove Tuv and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum. The centerpiece was a reproduction of Johann Christoph Frisch's 1768 oil painting of Immanuel Kant. SHOUTOUT to our TOP SPONSORS! Fergus Ryan Matthias Proy Børge Moe Diego Subscribe to our newsletter. It is the only way to make sure that you receive content from us on a regular basis: https://bit.ly/2L8qCNn Check out our other channels: https://www.youtube.com/c/SchoolofApelles https://www.youtube.com/c/CultureWarsNow Podcast available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify: https://soundcloud.com/caveofapelles https://spoti.fi/2AVDkcT https://apple.co/2QAcXD6 Website: https://caveofapelles.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/caveofapelles TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caveofapelles Instagram: instagram.com/caveofapelles/ For inquiries — talk@caveofapelles.com