Title:
Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody / Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.
ISBN:
9781634312028
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
351 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
In title "Cynical" appears above the word "Critical", which is presented with a strikethrough.
Contents:
Introduction -- Postmodernist: a revolution in knowledge and power -- Postmodernism's applied turn: making oppression real -- Postcolonial theory: deconstructing the West to save the other -- Queer theory: freedom from the normal -- Critical race theory and intersectionality: ending racism by seeing it everywhere -- Feminisms and gender studies: simplification as sophistication -- Disability and fat studies: support-group identity theory -- Social justice scholarship and thought: the truth according to social justice -- Social justice in action: theory always looks good on paper -- An alternative to the ideology of social justice: liberalism without identity politics.
Summary:
"Outlines the origin and evolution of postmodern thought over the last half century and argues that the unchecked spread and application of postmodern ideas -- from academia, to activist circles, to the public at large - presents an authoritarian ideological threat not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity itself"-- Provided by publisher
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OCLC Number:
on1120692381
Availability:
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