The Resource Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 351 pages
- Note
- In title "Cynical" appears above the word "Critical", which is presented with a strickthrough
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781634312028
- Label
- Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody
- Title
- Cynical theories
- Title remainder
- how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pluckrose, Helen
- Dewey number
- 149/.97
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- B831.2
- LC item number
- .P58 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Lindsay, James M.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Postmodernism
- Philosophy, Modern
- Authoritarianism
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
- Note
- In title "Cynical" appears above the word "Critical", which is presented with a strickthrough
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-335) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9781634312028
- Lccn
- 2019054122
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1120692381
- (OCoLC)1120692381
- Label
- Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
- Note
- In title "Cynical" appears above the word "Critical", which is presented with a strickthrough
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-335) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9781634312028
- Lccn
- 2019054122
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1120692381
- (OCoLC)1120692381
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