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Cynical Theories - How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody (Hardcover)
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Cynical Theories - How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody (Hardcover)
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers
Weekly Bestseller! Times, Sunday
Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year
Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that
science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't
practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese
is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that
only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas,
and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the
very logic of Western society? In this probing and intrepid volume,
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the
dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French
postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields.
Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as
cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which
are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media:
knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of
oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power
play; and language is dangerous. As Pluckrose and Lindsay warn, the
unchecked proliferation of these anti-Enlightenment beliefs present
a threat not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity
itself. While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency
of those who think a just society has been fully achieved,
Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist
scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those
marginalized communities it claims to champion. They also detail
its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a
proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they
conclude, can those who value science, reason, and consistently
liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and
authoritarian orthodoxy—in the academy, in culture, and beyond.
General
Imprint: |
Pitchstone Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2020 |
Authors: |
Helen Pluckrose
• James A Lindsay
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-63431-202-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-63431-202-3 |
Barcode: |
9781634312028 |
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