Conclusion to 1999 CyberSeminar, The Continental Origins of Postmodernism, The Atlas Society

Dear CyberSeminarians and Observers:

December 31 seems an appropriate day to officially call a close to the Fall 1999 CyberSeminar in Objectivist Studies. In the next few days I will be posting the last installment of the Fall archive. I hope you all will check it out to remind yourselves of the interesting essays and discussions we have enjoyed over the last three-and-a-half months.

I would like to thank all of the active participants for your work in building up a solid body of formal posts, and for the general quality of the discussions. As I hope will become a tradition with CyberSeminars, I will be back in touch with you individually about revising some of your essays for further publication, on the web in an open site or perhaps in a small volume as in our monograph series. I would also especially like to thank Stephen Hicks for leading us magisterially through the topic of Postmodernism by means of his elegant and insightful survey essays.

I learned a great deal in my role as a participant, and enjoyed corresponding with you all in my role as moderator. I hope the CyberSeminar was a valuable experience for you all as well. I will be circulating a short questionnaire about the CyberSeminar to participants, and I welcome comments from all quarters. We at TAS are always working to improve our various training vehicles, so as to provide scholars and students with the resources they need to continue to enrich and develop our distinctive philosophical perspective.

Don’t forget that starting January 24 the Spring 2000 CyberSeminar in Objectivist Studies will be looking at Nietzsche and his influence on Ayn Rand. Stephen Hicks returns as Resident Faculty to oversee the seminar. I encourage those of you who have not already applied to do so. This will be an exciting discussion that will allow us to explore a single thinker in some detail, touching continually on issues pregnant with implications for the development and content of Objectivism.