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Hicks, Stephen R. C. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.(Book Review)

Review of Metaphysics, The,  December, 2005  by Hancock, Curtis L.

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HICKS, Stephen R. C. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Tempe, Arizona: Scholarly Publishing, 2005. v + 230 pp. Paper, $18.95--The opening sentence of this instructive book declares that "we have entered a new intellectual age." "Postmodernism" is a name that some scholars give to the academic zeitgeist.

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Hicks's task is to explain the topology and the genesis of postmodernism. This is a welcome achievement since many people wonder what rationale, or lack thereof, postmodernists have used to make their case and what ...

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