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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago first published in the West in 1973, was the most widely read and condemnatory. Solzhenitsyn's book drew upon extensive research and Solzhenitsyn's own first hand experience of eight years' imprisonment in the labor camps for the crime of having written in 1945 a letter critical of Stalin's regime.

Stephen Hicks / Explaining Postmodernism

Phenomenology becomes philosophically important once we accept the Kantian conclusion that we cannot start as realists and scientists do by assuming that we are aware of an external, independent reality that is made up of objects that we are trying to understand...So we start phenomenologically __ that is, by simply and clearly describing the phenomena of experience and change.

Stephen Hicks

Postmodernism rejects the Enlightenment project in the most fundamental way possible __by attacking its essential philosophical themes. Postmodernism rejects the reason and the individualism that the entire Enlightenment world depends upon. So it ends up attacking all of the consequences of the Enlightenment philosophy, from capitalism and liberal forms of government to science and technology.

Stephen Hicks