Cynical Theories
How Universities Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity - And Why this Harms Everybody
'Exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture' Steven Pinker Have you heard that language is violence and that science issexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thingas biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused bythese ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challengethe very logic of Western society?Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsaydocument the evolution of the dogma behind these ideas, from its origins inFrench postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Todaythis dogma is…
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Weitere Autoren: Lindsay, James
- ISBN: 978-1-80075-005-0
- EAN: 9781800750050
- Produktnummer: 34435103
- Verlag: Swift Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 591 KB
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Helen Pluckrose is a liberal political and cultural writer and speaker. She is the editor of Areo Magazine and the author of many popular essays on postmodernism, critical theory, liberalism, secularism and feminism. Today an exile from the humanities, she researched late medieval and early modern religious writing by and for women. Helen lives in Essex, England.James Lindsay is a mathematician with a background in physics and founder of New Discourses (newdiscourses.com). His essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Time. James lives in Tennessee.
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