Cynical theories How activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody
Book - 2020
"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"--
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Durham, North Carolina :
Pitchstone Publishing
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- In title "Cynical" appears above the word "Critical", which is presented with a strickthrough.
- Physical Description
- 351 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781634312028
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Postmodernism A Revolution in Knowledge and Power
- 2. Postmodernism's Applied Turn Making Oppression Real
- 3. Postcolonial Theory Deconstructing the West to Save the Other
- 4. Queer Theory Freedom from the Normal
- 5. Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality Ending Racism by Seeing It Everywhere
- 6. Feminisms and Gender Studies Simplification as Sophistication
- 7. Disability and Fat Studies Support-Group Identity Theory
- 8. Social Justice Scholarship and Thought The Truth According to Social Justice
- 9. Social Justice in Action Theory Always Looks God on Paper
- 10. An Alternative to the Ideology of Social Justice Liberalism Without Identity Politics
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
